founder of the Accademia Colombaria, ii. 483.

PEG-TANKARDS, ii. 296, and note.

PEIRESC, a man of incessant literary occupations, and an enthusiast
in the importation of exotic plants, ii. 151; anecdotes of, iii.
409.

PEMBROKE, Anne, Countess of, designed a history of her family, iii.
421.

PERFUMERY and costly washes, introduced into England by the Earl of
Oxford, i. 225.

PETITIONS, to Parliament against the Drama, ii. 289; mock, ib.

PETITIONERS and Abhorrers, iii. 87.

PETRACH, formula used at his coronation with the Laurel Crown, i.
455; his passion for literary composition, ii. 592; his Laura, iii.
309.

PICTORIAL Biography.--See MAGIUS.

PISISTRATUS, the first projector amongst the Greeks of a collection
of the works of the learned, i. 2.

PHILIP the First of Spain, i. 469; his marriage with Mary of
England, ib.; sought Queen Elizabeth in marriage, 470; offered
himself to three different sisters-in-law, ib.; his advice to his
son, ib.; his death-bed, ib.; his epitaph, 471.

PHILOSOPHY, dreams at the dawn of, iii. 280-290; mechanical fancies,
291, 292; inquiries after prodigies, 293; further anecdotes of,
294-296.

PHYSIOGNOMY, credited by Louis XIV. and James I., i. 148, 149.

PICART, his _impostures innocentes_, i. 259.

PICTURES belonging to Charles I., ii. 332, 333.

PINAMONTI, his book on the eternal punishments, i. 204, note.

PINELLI, his great library, and its partial destruction, i. 57, and
note.

PLAGIARISM, in printed sermons, i. 400; a professor of, ib.

PLANTS, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 245.

PLANTYN the printer, and his office at Antwerp, i. 77, note.

PLATINA, his account of his persecution and tortures, for having
been a member of the "Academy" at Rome, ii. 486.

PLATO, Aristotle studied under, i. 143; parallel between him and
Aristotle, ib.; contest between him and Aristotle, 144; the model
of the moderns who profess to be anti-poetical, 433; a true poet
himself, ib.

PLATONISM, modern, originated among the Italians, i. 213; system of,
by Gemisthus Pletho, ib.; professed by a Mr. Thomas Taylor, 215; by
a scholar in the reign of Louis XII., 216; by Dr. More, ib.

PLETHO, or Gemisthus, a remarkable modern professor of Platonism, i.
213.

PLATTS or Plots, theatrical discovery of curious ones at Dulwich
College, and