Preferred Citation: Bouwsma, William J. A Usable Past: Essays in European Cultural History. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5m3nb3ft/


 

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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


441

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


 

Preferred Citation: Bouwsma, William J. A Usable Past: Essays in European Cultural History. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5m3nb3ft/