We are taught by the scribes of absolutism to speak of the Italians as if they were a nation of cowards, and we forget that the most renowned masters of the science of war, the greatest generals up to our day, were Italians,Piccolomini, Montecucculi, Farnese, Eugene of Savoy, Spinola, and Bonapartea galaxy of names whose glory is dimmed only by the reflection that none of them fought for his own country.

The first order of this year came from the Cardinal Francesco Piccolomini, who was afterwards elected Pope in 1503, and who died after reigning three weeks with the title of Pius III.

He wished to decorate the Piccolomini Chapel in the Duomo of Siena with fifteen statues of male saints.

Upon the death of Pius III., he renewed it with the Pope's heirs, Jacopo and Andrea Piccolomini, by a deed dated September 15, 1504; and in 1537 Anton Maria Piccolomini, to whom the inheritance succeeded, considered himself Michelangelo's creditor for the sum of a hundred crowns, which had been paid beforehand for work not finished by the sculptor.

Upon the death of Pius III., he renewed it with the Pope's heirs, Jacopo and Andrea Piccolomini, by a deed dated September 15, 1504; and in 1537 Anton Maria Piccolomini, to whom the inheritance succeeded, considered himself Michelangelo's creditor for the sum of a hundred crowns, which had been paid beforehand for work not finished by the sculptor.

SCHILLER, in his Piccolomini, speaks of lightning conductors.

The life of Æneas Sylvius Piccolomini, Pius II., is here treated like a legend.

just tell him I'm not sure yet about the Piccolomini matter. .

And now as to the Piccolomini affair.

But the assembling of this Council was of some service to us; for its Secretary, Aeneas Sylvius, (who, like the saucy little prima donna, was one of the noble and powerful Italian family, the Piccolomini, and afterward, as Pope Pius II., wore the triple crown which St. Peter did not wear,) in his Latin dedication of a history of the transactions of that body to the Cardinal St. Angeli, has left a description of Bâle as it was in 1436.

In The Piccolomini we see the nature of the dangerous game he is playing, and in Wallenstein's Death the unheroic hero becomes very impressive in his final discomfiture and his pitiable taking-off.

'Tis yours To make the amendsMake you the son's fidelity Outweigh the father's treason, that the name Of Piccolomini be not a proverb Of infamy, a common form of cursing To the posterity of Wallenstein.

A bloody hatred will divide forever The houses Piccolomini and Friedland; But we belong not to our houses.

Seven leagues distant are the Swedes; At Neustadt did Max Piccolomini Throw himself on them with the cavalry; A murderous fight took place!

She has lost the man she loved Young Piccolomini who fell in the battle.

It lies with us at present to prescribe Laws, and take vengeance on those worthless traitors, Those skulking cowards that deserted us; One has already done his bitter penance, The Piccolomini: be his the fate Of all who wish us evil!

What, though the world Is ignorant of my purposed treason, yet One man does know it, and can prove it too High-minded Piccolomini!

They neither could advance, nor yet retreat; And as they stood on every side wedged in, The Rhinegrave to their leader call'd aloud, Inviting a surrender; but their leader, Young Piccolomini [THEKLA, as giddy, grasps a chair.] Known by his plume, And his long hair, gave signal for the trenches; Himself leapt first: the regiment all plunged after.

Thou speakest Of Piccolomini.

SCENE XI To these enter OCTAVIO PICCOLOMINI with all his train.

To the Prince Piccolomini.

If, at some future time, you could cut off a little from The Piccolomini, both pieces would be a priceless gift to the German stage, and they would have to be given throughout many a long year.

I herewith return The Piccolomini, and beg you to let me have Wallenstein's Camp, which I wish likewise to have copied out, and shall then, at last, be able to send the three plays to Körner.

The Prussian King writes that both Brown and Piccolomini are too strongly intrenched to be attacked.

Piccolomini, Aeneas Silvius, see Pius II.