Pitch, the Bruttian, 204, 285, 286.
Pitrè, G., 300.
Platitudes, Italian and English love of, 14.
Plato, _quoted,_ 116; his cloudy philosophy, 311; food for adolescents,
312.
Pleasure, danger of repressing, 153.
Pliny the Elder, 80, 281, 284, 285, 307.
Pococke, R., 121.
Poets, why deficient in humour, 58.
Policoro, forest, 95 _seq.;_ its game, 96; eucalyptus avenue, 97;
buffaloes, 99.
Polistena, town, 234.
Pollino, mountain,, 108; derivation of the name, 142; the peak,
143-145; terminates Apennines, 145; its forests, 145-148.
Polybius, 80.
Pompeio, fountain, 196.
Pontanus, humanist, 18.
Ponza, island, 276.
Pope, A., prince of snobs, 127.
Porcupine, approaching extinction, 184.
Potenza, 32.
Potteries of Grottaglie, 78; of Taranto, 92; of Corigliano, 173.
Pratilii, F. M., 143.
Praxiteles, 286.
Preconi, H., 78.
Prehistoric stations in South Italy, 119; weapons, 3, 119, 179, 224.
Priests, parasitic on families, 4; their attitude towards
superstitions, 59; their acquisitiveness, 60; a decayed profession, 60,
154; fight on side of brigands, 215; connaisseurs of wine, 3O7-
Privacy, lack of feeling for, 66.
Procida, John of, 8.
Proclus, 285.
Procopius, 109.
Properties, large, their break-up, 96; synonymous with malaria, 289.
Propertius, 80.
Ptolemy, 281.
Public opinion, non-existent, 277.
Puccini, archbishop, recommends fetishism, 26.
Pythagoras, 282; explanation of his popularity, 309; a glorified
marabout, 311.