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.
PIRATES, raids of, on Italy, i.