PAPAL States, the: 
  their condition in 1447, i. 5;
  attempts to consolidate them into a kingdom, 6.

PARMA and Piacenza, creation of the Duchy of, by Paul III., i. 86.

PARMA, Duchy of, added to the States of the Church, i. 7.

PARMIGIANINO, Il, painting of Charles V. by, i. 42.

PARRASIO, Alessandro, one of the assassins of Sarpi, ii. 212.

PART-SONGS, French Protestant, influence of, on Palestrina, ii. 324.

PASSARI, Pietro, amours of, with the nuns of S. Chiara, Lucca, i. 340 sq.

‘PASTOR Fido,’ Guarini’s, critique of, ii. 252 sqq.

PAUL III., Pope, sends Contarini to the conference at Rechensburg, i. 78;
  receives a memorial on ecclesiastical abuses, 79;
  establishes the Roman Holy Office, 80;
  sanctions the Company of Jesus, ib.;
  his early life and education, 81;
  love of splendor, 82;
  peculiarity of his position, ib.;
  the Pope of the transition, 84;
  jealous of Spanish ascendency in Italy, 85;
  creates the Duchy of Parma for his son, 86 sqq.;
  members of the moderate reforming party made Cardinals, 88;
  his repugnance to a General Council, 90;
  indiction of a Council to be held at Trent, 97;
  difficulties of his position, 100;
  his death, 101;
  his connection with the founding of the Jesuit Order, 245.

PAUL IV., Pope, see CARAFFA, GIOV.  PIETRO.

PAUL V., Pope: 
  details of his nepotism, i. 157 n.;
  places Venice under an interdict, ii. 198.

PAVIA, the battle of, 13.

PELLEGRINI, Cammillo, panegyrist of Tasso, ii. 72.

PEPERARA, Laura, Tasso’s relations with, ii. 31.

PERETTI, Felice (nephew of Sixtus V.), husband of Vittoria
  Accoramboni, i. 357;
  his murder, 358.

PESCARA, Marquis of, husband of Vittoria Colonna, i. 25.

‘PESTE di S. Carlo, La,’ i. 421.

‘PETRARCA, Considerazioni sopra le Rime, del,’ Tassoni’s, ii. 298, 300.

PETRONI, Lucrezia, second wife of Francesco Cenci, i. 348 sq.

PETRONIO, S., Bologna, reception of Charles V. by Clement VII. at, i. 23;
  the Emperor’s coronation at, 37 sqq.

PETRUCCI, Pandolfo, seduction of two sons of, by the Jesuits, i. 284.

PHILIP II. of Spain: 
  his quarrel with Paul IV., i. 102;
  the reconciliation, 104.

PHILOSOPHERS of Southern Italy in the sixteenth century, ii. 126 sqq.

PIACENZA, added to the States of the Church, i. 7.

PICCOLOMINI, Alfonso, leader of bandits in the Papal States, i. 152.

‘PIETRO Soave Polano,’ anagram of ‘Paolo Sarpi Veneto,’ ii. 223.

PIGNA (secretary to the Duke of Ferrara), a rival of Tasso, ii. 34, 45, 48.

PINDAR, the professed model of Chiabrera’s poetry, ii. 291, 294.