Piacenza, Duke of

See Lebrun, Charles Fran çois . Piacevole Notte. See Str a parol a . Piaggia (pē-äd'jä), Carlo. Born at Lucca, Italy, 1830: died in Sennaar, 1882. An African traveler and collector. He went young to Egypt; learned the Sudan languages in Khartum (1856); was with Antinori in Bahr-el-Ghazal (1860); was in Aby in i a and Gall a land 1871-76; and went with Ge i to the lakes of the Nile in 1876. He was the first European among they the was Nyam Berlin Museum of Ethnology. Piankhi (pē-an'ki). An Ethiopian king (about 766-733 в. с.), conqueror of Egypt. His campaign against Middle and Lower Egypt is described in an inscription found at Mount Barkal on "a block of granite covered with writing on all sides up to the very edges" ( Brugsch ).