Pacheco, Francisco, the celebrated
painter, III. 148.
Pachione, Philippo. I. 227.
Pajares, Alonso Diaz, III. 122.
Panizzi, Dr., I. 168.
Pastrengo, William da, I. 84.
Paul II., pope, I. 180.
Pedrosa, Luis, III. 138.
Pellicer, don Juan Antonio, III. 121.
Pellicer, don Joseph, III. 202.
Pepoli, Geronimo, II. 71.
Perticari, count, II. 336.
Perugini, Paolo, I. 120.
Petracco, Pietro, I. 23.
Petrarch, Francesco, his birth and
parentage, I. 61. His early life,
62. Sent to study at the university
of Montpellier, 63. Sent to
Bologna; makes considerable
progress in the study of the law,
64. Recalled to France by the
death of his father, 64. Abandons
the law, and devotes himself to
the clerical profession, 65. His
sedulous attention to dress, 65.
Becomes the favourite and companion
of the ecclesiastical and
lay nobles who form the papal
court, 65. Commencement of his
friendship with Giacomo Colonna,
66. His description of
Colonna, 67. His character, 67.
His first meeting with Laura de
Side, 68. Endeavours to merge
the living passion of his soul into
the airy and unsubstantial devotion
of Platonic attachment, 70.
His poetic life dated from the
time of his attachment to Laura,
71. His predilection for travelling,
72. Becomes an inmate in
the house of cardinal Colonna;
his unbounded ardour for acquiring
knowledge, 73. Visits
Paris; continues his travels
through Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne,
74. Visits Rome; his sensations
on entering the eternal
city, 75. Leaves Italy, and travels
through Spain to Cadiz, and
northward as far as the sea-coast
of England, 76. Makes an excursion
to Mont Ventoux, one of
the highest mountains in Europe,
76. His letter to father Dionisio
Robertis, giving an account of
the expedition, 77. Retires to
Vaucluse, 78. His manner of life,
79. Extract from a translation of
one of the canzoni, as a specimen
of his style, 80. Character of his
mistress, 82. His intimacy with
Philip de Cabassoles, bishop of
Cavaillon, 83. His letter to Giacomo
Colonna, on his soliciting
him to go to Rome, 84. Receives
letters from the Roman senate
and the university of Paris, inviting
him to receive the laurel
crown of poetry; he decides in
favour of Rome, 85. Repairs to
Rome, and is crowned in the
capitol with great solemnity, in
presence of all the nobles and
high-born ladies of the city, 86.
Returns to Avignon; takes on
himself the office of barrister, and
pleads the cause of the Corregio,
against their enemies the Rossi,
before the pope, and succeeds in
obtaining a decision in their favour,
87. His grief on hearing
of the death of Thomas of Messina:
his extraordinary dream,
88. Named prior of Migliarino,
in the diocese of Pisa, 89. His
unabated love for Laura, 90. Applies
himself to Greek, under
Bernardo Barlaam, 91. Writes
his work entitled "The Secret of
Francesco Petrarca," 91. Sent as
ambassador to Naples, to establish
the papal claim, 92. Writes letters
full of encouragement to
Rienzi, the tribune, 93. Repairs
to his house at Parma; his extraordinary
dream, 94. His grief
on hearing of the death of Laura,
95. His record of her death, 95.
Gives large sums in charity for
the sake of her soul, and causes
many masses to be said for the
same purpose, 97. Receives a
decree of the Florentine republic,
reinstating him in his paternal
inheritance, together with letters
inviting him to accept of a professor's
chair in their university,
99. His letters to pope Clement
VI.; again solicited to accept the
lace of apostolic secretary, which
e again refuses, 100. His treatise
"On Solitary Life," 101.
Induced by the solicitations of
Giovanni Visconti to remain in
Milan, 102. His conversation
with the emperor Charles V., 102.
Sent to Vienna to negotiate a
peace, and afterwards sent to
Paris to congratulate John, 103.
His manner of life at Milan, 104.
His record of the death of his
son; takes up his abode at
Padua, 105. His writings compared
with those of Dante, 106.
His description of Laura's death,
107. Continues to interest himself
deeply in the political state of
his country, 109. His letter to
Boccaccio; his congratulatory
letter to Pope Urban V., 110. Is
seized with a violent illness on
his way to Rome, 111. His treatise,
entitled "On my own Ignorance
and that of others," 112.
His opinion of the "Decameron"
of Boccaccio, 113. His death,
114. His will, 114.
Peraga, Bonaventura da, I. 114.
Petroni, Pietro, I. 139.
Pickler, Giovanni, II. 314.
Pietro, Francesco Santo, III. 127.
Pignoria, Lorenzo, II. 13.
Pineda, don Juan de, III. 108.
Pio, prince of Savoy, II. 193.
Pistofo, M. Bonaventura, I. 230.
Pistoia, Cina da, I. 64.
Pletho, Gemisthus, I. 151.
Polenta, Guido Novelio da, lord of
Ravenna, I. 29.
Politian, II. 15.
Poliziano, Angelo, his birth and
parentage, I. 162. Review of his
writings, 163. Appointed tutor
to the children of Lorenzo de'
Medici, 164. At the age of
twenty-nine appointed to the professorship
of Greek and Latin
eloquence in the university of
Florence, 165. His death, 167.
Porras, doctor Mathias, corregidor
of the province of Canta, in Peru,
III. 213.
Porta, Baptista, II. 14.
Portugal, early poets of, III. 288.
Pulci, Bernardo, remarks on his
works, I. 167.
Pulci, Luca, his works, I. 167.
Pulci, Luigi, style of his writings,
I. 168. Extract from his "Morgante
Maggiore," 171. Outline of
the poem, 173.