T I U 



T I It 



that of the mathematical H : which Galileo hoia 



the first rank. \Ynli the 17th c, 



hi* work. Various reasons prevented his < 



of contemporary hirtory. 1 >iu b*n ii 



late years by Lombanii, in his contin 



work : ' Storia della I. .an* nel Secolo \ 



TiraboK-hi'i work was went 



through numerous editions in \. The 



uuthor bin .ntcnded the second edition ol' Mo- 



in wlu'ch he made correction* and dditiona, 

 chiefly in the shape of notes to the text. Antonio I-amli 

 made an abridgment nt' the work in French, which was pub- 

 : at Paris, and at Betn. in 17*4 ; and .1. Ketzer made ;i 

 similar abridgment ol it in the German language. \Vhen 

 the work of Tiraboschi aiipeareil. no other country of Europe 

 had a general history nt its own literature. The learned 

 Benedictines of St. Nlaur had begun a work of this kind 

 literature of France, which however they 

 The work of Tiraboscln does not give aO 

 the infoniiation that one might wish, but it contains pro- 

 . as niucli infoniiation ;is could l>e collected and 

 Mlier by any one nuui upon the sub- 

 It has been slid to be deficient in crilici.sin, and in 

 s of conspicuous works, of which he has not 

 ; extracts: but this, ii-s be >ay> in his preface, did not 

 tiirm part of his plan, which wits already extensive enough, 

 or the work would have had no end. His accuracy and 

 icntiousiic-s arc undisputed. The tone of his 

 renia ally on religions matters. is perh. 



..ilid be expected from a man of hif 



i, times, and country, who was a sincere believer in 



of his church, though not a bigot. For a proof 



of this we might refer the reader to Tiiaho>clii's U Iter to 



Fall ii. a Dominican, who edited at Home an 



edition of Tiruboschi's great, work with corrections and 



10 iliose passages which were not consonant with his 

 high notions of Papal prerogative and Koman 

 maey, buth spiritual and temporal. Tiraboschi's 



Ished at Modena in 17ST, and \VILS after- 

 il the end of the last volume of the - 

 .iilion of the Ilistoiy of Italian Lite 

 of refined cutting irony, half veiled, under a most 

 -tvle of . pervades the whole of the 



. T!u- French writer Ginjruen6 has followed 

 Tiraboschi's footsteps in his ' Ilistoire Littt'raire d'ltalie',' 

 which however contains only the modern part, or the 

 y of the literature of the Italian language. [Gi.N- 

 *'.] 



The duke of Modena, Krcole III. of Este, in consider- 

 ation d labours, made him a knight, 

 and ap|x>intcd him nicmber of his council in I7^>. B\ 

 -ipprcssioii of the older of Jesuits. Tiraboschi had 

 ilar pnest. Ill 17M he began to publish 

 another work of bibliography and biography: ' liiblioteca 

 M(Mleiie>e. o Notiria della Vita e delle Uperv degli ScriUori 

 del Seienissinio Duca di Modeiia,' \ols. 

 !7M-sii: to which he afterwards added a 

 ice.-, of the artist.-- who were 



born in the dominions of the house of Este. Having thus 



illustrated the literary history of Modcna. and of the other 



territories of the house of Este, he all el -wards wrote the 



ral history of the same country, in his Mcmoric 



. lie Modcncsi. col eodice diplomatico, ilhisliato con 



! le also published the 



antieiit nuiniisteiA and abbey of Nonantola 



in the duchy of out the middle of the 



11 eciitnrv 'inns. Duke of Frmli. and after- 

 : L-rcatlv enriched bv nd oilier ] 



and which 'became n poweiinl community during the 



middle aged: ' Storia dell' au^u-ta Bailia di S. Sil\i 



Nonantola, aggiuntovi il < loinatico di-lla mede- 



.illustiato con i 17M. The 



, world of Tiraliosdii are : 1, ' Vita del Contc I). Fnlvio 



Teti.' Testi wa a lyric poet of the seventeenth century. 



and enjoyed for a lime a high office nt the court of 



. na, but ended his day in pri-on for state reasons. 



c- intorno ai viaggi del Sigr. 1! 



the ' Notizie Lettcrarie ' of Cesenn. 17;'-': :'. ' Memoria 

 delle cogni/ioni che si avevano di nti del Nilo 



prima del \'iaggio del Sigr. .lacopo Hnic, : in the 



l-i sol. of the Memorie dell' Aceademia delle Scienze di 

 Mantova;' 4, Two memoirs on (ialileo, h 

 L-i coudvianatiuu by the IiujuiwUwi, inserted in the last 



vol. of the second Modcna cd.uoii 

 Italian J.iteratun n S. 



.a e 



iessa della I'hiesa d 

 Kambnldo de Conti 

 r writing in answ, 



of Ins HiMory of Italian Literature.' He K-ft unpub- 

 lished: 1. ' Dizionario To|ioi:ialieo ilegh 

 published since at Mourn; 

 del l.ibri del gii L'ollegio del (ie>uiti di Hi c 

 sulla Venn! olio in Italia ;' -1. Vila di < 



nandr. : Ferrarese :' :>. Noti/ie 



Tiniboschi du i .Tune, 17 sea 



brought oil by sedentary lil'e 

 lie was buried in the church < 

 outside of the city, and a Latin inscription . 

 on his tomb, written by Kalhei- l'o//..-'.ii. who succeeded 

 him :us librariaM. coninicmoiati\c of his laliours and his 

 virtues, among which modesty and charit) con- 



s)iii'UOU8. 



iliwhi. by Pozzetti, 



the later editions of the ' History of Italian Liter:.' 

 I goni. Sturiii di'llii i 



ini'ti'i \ /"///.; Lombardi, ,S/ur/t( delta It! 



turn Italian . A'/ ///. 



TIRA'.NO. [\AI.IU.I.INO.] 



TlHHfT. [HlM>l'STAN. p. 217.] 



'JTHIDATES, ])rince of Medi 



Armenia, was the brother of \ .ng nf the 1'ar- 



thians. that is. of Media. He i 

 A.I). 5:i. in the first war of Corbui 

 (Tacitus. //;>/., xii. M;, who was compelled to desist Irom 



upon Armenia in v.. ">4. In A.D. ;">S, hov. 

 the Parlhians again overran Armenia, having been invited 

 by the inhabitants of that country, ami \ 



his hiother Tiiidates. who tin 



king of Armenia. As the Hon. . not allov. 



country to become a . of the Parthians. Corbulo 



directed his forces against the n . s, knowing thai 



..as pieM-utcd i iiis ai my against 



him in consequence of aniusmi. the ]>rovince ol 



Hxrcauia. ( 'oil iido therefore soon persiiadi'd Tiridatcs to 

 submit to tin rmpci'or Nero, and to prefer a moderate de- 

 pendence to an uncertain and dangerous indrpen.: 

 When they were about to i; e the ci n- 



ditions of the peace, Tiridate-i suddenly became aliaid of 

 some treacherous design on the part of the Komai'- 

 lie therefore broke oh' the negotiations and renewed the 

 war. Corbulo however defeated him at Artavita on the 

 Araxes, took and destroyed this old capital of Armenia, 

 and forced the new capital, Tigranocerta [TICKAMH i , 

 to surrender after a short siege, i Tacit us, JJint., \i , 

 Frontimis, Strn/n. '.cmpl. ."). 



Tiridatcs fled to his brother, who bad taken the field 

 against the ll\i>. ,dwho entrusted him with tint 



command of a new army, with which Tiiidates hop. 

 c\pc! the Komans from Annenia. He attacked them on 

 the side of Mesopotamia, but the strong position which 

 the Romans kept at Tigiaiiocerta, and the care which they 

 ing the passages of the F.uphrutcs, prc- 



1 him from either pi ; lie valley of tht- 



I'ppi r from invadi: niana'i'r. 



which Corbulo would ba\. 'en tcithe- 



il province, and to leave Annenia to the incur- 



s. Tiridir 



to the pacific ])roposals of the Romans, who we 

 to avoid any war with the Parthian*, if they could do 

 conditions winch would secure their inll 

 nienia. Their intention was not to make a Roman pro- 

 vince of Armenia. A J in 

 ibulo, and they declared, in the name of 

 Tiridates and his brother was 

 1'iiiit to Nero, as a \ -md that Volo- 



.vuiild kc( \ Ii the 



Romans than bel'ori'. In day 



was fixed on which Tiridati s was to :ip|,, ai in ! lie camp ot 

 Corbulo, who sent Tiberius Alexander [TniKKi- 



. ) and his son-in-law > 

 iuto Uie camp of Tiridtc (\.D, UJ,. \\ hen Tiudatcs cu- 



