Pasquin, Antony, a fifteenth-century Italian tailor, noted for his
caustic wit
Paulician Theology originated in Armenia, and flourished c.660-970
A.D. Besides certain Manichee elements it denied the deity of Jesus and
abjured Mariolatry and the sacraments
Pescara, Marquis of, an Italian general who betrayed to the emperor,
Charles V., the plot of Francesco Sforza for driving the Spaniards and
Germans out of Italy
Peter Martyr, a name borne by three personages. The reference here is
to the Italian Protestant reformer who made his home successively in
Switzerland, England, Strasburg, and Zurich (d. 1562)
Phidias, Athens’s greatest sculptor. A contemporary of Pericles (d. 432
B. C.)
Philips, John, best remembered by The Splendid Shilling, a good
burlesque in imitation of Milton (1676-1708)
Pilpay, the Indian Aesop. For the pedigree of the Pilpay literature, see
Jacobs: Fables of Bidpai (1888), 641
Pisistratus and Gelon, two able Grecian tyrants who ruled beneficially
at Athens (541-527 B.C.), and at Syracuse (484-473 B.C.), respectively