P
Padavino, Giambattista, 303
Padavicino, Pietro Sforza, 288 n.39
Palmer, Robert R., 5
Panofsky, Erwin, 341 , 362 n.3
Papal States, 193
Papin, Denis, 354 -355
Parlement of Paris, 135 , 312
Parliament, 197
Partridge, Loren, 341
Paruta, Paolo, 273
on active life, 268 , 272 , 302
on church, 271
Della perfezione della vita politica , 268 -269, 273 , 302
use of dialogue by, 267 -268
Discorsi politici , 273
and Guicciardini, 302
and laicism, 268
on universalism, 269
and Venice, spokesman for, 267
Pascal, Blaise, 132 , 148 n.11
on infinite space, 174 -175
Pensées , 413 n.13
on probabilism, 188 n.102
and divine revelation, 354 -355
as secular thinker, 118
Voltaire on, 181
on the wager, 177
on his watch, 161
Pasquier, Etienne, 133 , 141 , 142
Passaggeri, Rolandino, 145 , 184 n.14
Passions:
in Augustinianism, 26 , 47 , 56 , 79 , 230
Huizinga on, 331 -332
in later Renaissance, 87
in Stoicism, 25 , 32
Patrizzi, Francesco, 302
Paul, the Apostle, 24 , 76 , 404 , 409
Paul V, Pope, 98 , 263 n.31
Peace of Bologna, 295
Peace of Westphalia, 117
Pelagianism, 236 , 404
Penitential system, 174 , 199 n.92
Peripatetics, 22
Perrault, Charles, 276
Petrarch:
on active life, 79
on anxiety, 90 , 159 , 161 , 185 -186 n.47
on Aristotle, 46 , 229 , 243 n.5
and Augustine, 44
on Avignon, 172
on Cicero, 33 , 39
on cities, 167 -168
De remediis
equivocations of, 80
on fear of death, 162
on fear of hell, 163
on fortune, 161
and France, read in, 328
historical consciousness of, 59 , 355
on human personality, 32 , 45 -48, 79 , 230
individualism of, 78
law studies of, 132
modernity of, 359
nostalgia of, 37
pacificism of, 38
on philosophy, 229 , 234 -235
piety of, 46 , 49 , 51 -52, 93 n.17, 234 -236
on rhetoric, 77 -78
on
Rome, 35
Secretum , 32 -34, 39 , 41 , 43 -45, 59 , 79
on society, 57
Stoicism in, 33 , 34 , 39 , 40 -41, 42 , 243 n.12
on his own times, 166 , 386
Philip II, King of Spain, 92
Philology, 83 -84, 89 , 235 , 315 -318
Philosophia Christi , 238
Philosophy, 393
Christians attracted to, 388
and history, 346
as viewed by humanists, 229
Plato on origins of, 338
present situation of, 345 , 393
and rhetoric, 387 -388
Philosophy of history, 13
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni:
as cabalist, 209 , 211 , 218
esoteric interests of, 83 , 85
on hierarchy, 85
on philosophy, 41 , 42 , 88 , 89
on rhetoric, 82 -83, 94 n.30
and syncretism, 60
Theses , 33
Pirckheimer, Willibald, 41 , 168
Pithou, Pierre, 141 , 312 , 314 , 315 , 322 n.16
Pius IV, Pope, 314
Plato, 392
on art, 341
Cratylus , 360 , 388
Petrarch on, 59
on origins of philosophy, 338
in Renaissance, 21 , 89 , 213
Republic , 55
on self-cultivation, 375
Socrates depicted by, 387 , 392
Play, 411 -412
Plutarch, 29
Pocock, J. G. A., 131 , 343
Politiques , 230
Poliziano, Angelo, 83
Polman, Pontien, 299
Polybius, 10
Pomponazzi, Pietro, 229
on human personality, 32 , 45
on the soul, 49 , 230
Stoicism in, 32 , 60
on virtue, 34
Ponet, John, 391
Poor Richard's Almanack , 161
Pope Joan, 272
Positive theology, 299
Possevino, Antonio, 98 , 106
Postel, Guillaume, 7 -8, 209 -224
Preaching, 235
Predestination, 162 , 234
Pre-Socratics, 151 n.45
Priesthood of all believers, 55
Printing, 89 , 98 , 138 -139, 219
Priuli, Francesco, 303
Priuli, Pietro, 99
Probabilism, 188 n.102
Probability, 177
Professions, 425 -426
Progress, idea of, 181 , 241 , 271 , 315 , 326
Prometheus, 357
Protagoras, 93 n.8, 387 -388, 391 -395
Protestantism, 61
and crisis, 219
historiography of, 317
neo-orthodoxy in, 365 n.36
and Renaissance, theological fulfillment of, 91 , 225 -246
and Scholasticism, criticism of, 173 , 210
secularist impulses in, 52
on sin, 240
skepticism in, 239
Stoicism in, 64
See also Reformation
Pseudo-Dionysius, 53
Celestial Hierarchies , 85
popular in later Renaissance, 85 , 237
Valla rejects, 229
Ptolemaic astronomy, 120
Pufendorf, Samuel, 121 , 123 , 133
Pulci, Luigi, 181
Purgatory, 162
Puritan Revolution, 276 , 279
Pythagoreanism, 210