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Julius If. ftized him at Oilia, und conriiicd him in prifon, in 

 Older to compel him to funciidcr the rell. As fooii 39 he 

 m:ulc his cfcapc from this conlincnKiil, he foiight refuge in 

 Kaples, and was at firll treated with rcfpctt by ttie Spanifli 

 general, Gonlalvo de Cordova ; but in conlequeiicc of an 

 order from the king of Spain, he was lent thither, and con- 

 demned to perpetual imprifonment in the caftle of Medina 

 del Campo. Here he remained two yeara ; but tfcaping 

 out of a window, by means of a rope, he fled to Navarre, 

 feeking the prottc1i<ni of king John, his wife's brother. 

 From hence it was his intention to have vifited France, and 

 to have engaged the aflillance of kii.g Lewis in retrieving his 

 fortune ; but that king refufcd to rtceive him, conlifcated his 

 ducliy of Valentinois, and witiidrew his penfion. In this 

 llate of humiliation and ditlrefs, without territorj or revenue, 

 not only fricndltfs but generally detcftcd, he was under a 

 necelTity of depending upon his biollitr-in-law for a fubfill- 

 encc ; and being engaged as a volunteer in his fcrvice, on 

 uccalion of a civil war with one of his rebellious fubjeds, he 

 was killed in a (kirmifh before the walls of Viaiia, in 1507. 

 His body was dripped by the viftors ; but being afterwards 

 recognized by his fcrvanl-', it was carried upon a horfe, and 

 irterrcd in the catliedral of Pamplona. " Such," fays one 

 uf his biographers, " was the end of thii man, who, for his 

 abilities in forming, and vigour in executing, great fchemes 

 for his aggrandizement, unmoved from his purpofe by any 

 conliderations of jullice, honour, or humanity, has been held 

 up to admiration by Machiavel, as the perfeft fpecimen of a 

 " great man." Hated in profperity, detefted in adverfity, 

 ftripped of all his honours and poifcffions, even fuch as he 

 might fairly have claimed, and leaving behind hira a name 

 confi'fncd to univerfal dctellation, it would fcem that he 

 gained little by being a villain." Borgia's motto was " Aut 

 Caefar, aut nihil." Mod. Un. Hill. vol. xxiii. Gen.Dift. 

 Gen. Biog. 



5ORGIAN MS. in B'lHical Hijlory, a fragment of a 

 Coptic-Greek MS. brought by anignorant monk from Egypt, 

 confiiling of about 12 leaves, fent to Stephen Borgia, fecre- 

 tary to the Society de propaganda fide. It begins with 

 John vi. 28. and ends vii. 23. ; and is divided into two co- 

 lumns, the firll containing the Greek text in unci.^1 letters, 

 and without intervals between the words, and the other con- 

 taining the Coptic. It is an important fpecimen, fays Mi- 

 chaelis, of the Alexandrine edition ; and he greatly laments 

 that fo much of it is loll. ProfelTor Birch, who collated this 

 MS. defcribed it in his Prolegomena, p. 49, and commu- 

 nicated its various readings in his Greek Tcllament. The 

 whole of it is printed in " Georgii Fragmentum Graeco- 

 Copto-Thebaicum," Romre, 1789, 410. Birch has likewife 

 defcribedandc<oinmunieatcdthe rcadingsof twoother Borgian 

 MSS.; one fuppofed to be of the i ith century, containing 

 the four golpels, and the other of the 12th, containing de- 

 tached parts of the gofpels, and of St. Paul's epillles. 



Borgian, in Geography, a town of Pcrfia, ill the province 

 of Segcftan, 90 leagues fouth of Zareiig. 



BORCL'\NI, Orazio, or Hor.\zio, in Biography, a 

 painter of hillory and portraits, and an engraver, was born at 

 Rome in 1630 ; iiillrufltd in the art of painting by his 

 brother, Giulio Borgiani, called Scalzo ; and by lludying 

 the capital performances of ancient and modern artifts, in his 

 native city, he made fuch progrcfs in his art, that his works 

 were held in high eftimation in Spain, where he rcfided for 

 fome time. Upon his return to Rome, he w as employed in 

 confiderable works for chapels and convents, and alfo in 

 painting portraits, by which he accpiiicd honour, and lived 

 in affluence. His etchings were performed in a bold and free 

 manner ; and more finilhed than ufual, when coafidered 3$ 



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tlie worki of a painter. His drawing i« not correft ; but 

 the llvle is mallerlv, and the cffcft agreeable. His moft 

 finiflied etching is'faid to be a " dead Clirlll," with the 

 figure very much fore-fhortencd, and behind the two Maries 

 and St. John, who is killing one of the hands of our Saviour ; 

 from a coinpofition of his own, dated \'h'\. His death, 

 which happened in 16S1, was occafiontd by the malicious 

 treatment of an envious competitor and contem.porary, whofe 

 name was Celio. Pilkington and Scrutt. 



liORGIE, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the pro- 

 vincc of Ztb or Zccb, about 5 leagues from Bifcara; a 

 town much more populous than the latter, and the re- 

 fidence of a great number of merchants, mechanics, and 

 labourers of all kinds. 



BORGLUM, a prefefture of Denmark, in the diocefeof 

 Aalliurg, including 14 parifhcs. 



BORGNE, Lt, a town on the north fide of the northern 

 peninfula of the idaiid of St. Domingo, 3 leagues well by 

 north from port Margot, and S eaft by fouth from Port de 

 Paix-. N. lat. 1 9° 49'. 



BORGO, a town of Sweden, in the province of Nyland, 

 in the gnlf of Finland, 21 miles N.E. of Helfingfors. This 

 is an ancient fea-port, with an indifferent harbour, a bifhop's 

 fee, and a good ieminary. The inhabitants trade in all kinds 

 of linen. Borgo gives name to a dillrift. 



BoRGO, a town of the Tyrol. N. lat. 46°. E. long. 

 11° JO'. 



BORGODES, in Ancient Geography, a people placed by 

 Pliny in Arabia Felix. 



BORGOFORTE, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the 

 duchy of Mantua, at the conflux of the Oglio and the Po ; 

 8 miles S.6.W. of Mantua. 



BORGOFRANCA, a place of fmall note in the princi- 

 pality of Piedmont, and marquifate of Ivrea, 2j miles noitli 

 of Ivrea. 



BORGO Di FoRNARi, a town of Italy, in the republic 

 of Genoa ; 10 miles north of Genoa. 



Borgo Mani;ro, a fmall place in the duchy of Milan, 

 and dillriift of Novarefe ; 12 miles N. N.W. of Novara. 



BoRco DI St. Domino, a fmall town of the duchy of 

 Placcntia, though it is the fee of a bilhop, fuffragan of the 

 archbiiliop of Bologna, and the capital of the dillridl ; la 

 miles N.W. of Parma. 



iioRGO DI St. Sepolero, a town of the duchy of Tuf- 

 cany, fituate near the fource of the Tiber, on the borders of 

 the ccclefiallical Hate, with a fort on a rock ; the fee of a 

 bifliop, fuffragan of Florence, and fief of the pope ; 48 miles 

 E.S.E. of Florence, and 12 N.E. of Arezzo. 



Borgo di Sesia, a town of the duchy of Milan, in a 

 diaria called " Val di Sefia ;" 22 miles N. W. of No- 

 vara. 



Borgo di Val di Taro, a town of the duchy of Pla- 

 ccntia, featcd on the river Taro, in the dillrift called " Val 

 di Taro ;" 2 ; miles S.W. of Parma. 



BORGSTALL, a town and bailiwic of Germany, in the 

 circle of Upper Saxony, and Old Marck of Brandenburg ; 

 12 miles S.S.W. of Stendal. 



BORIA, or Borja, a town of Spain in Arragon, feated 

 at the foot of an eminence near Cayo, and in a country which 

 produces plenty of grain, wine, oil, hemp, flax, and mod 

 kinds of efculent plants; 34 miles W.N. W. of Sara- 

 gulTa. 



BORJA, a town of Peni, fituate on the head waters of 

 the Amazon river. — Alfo, a town in Brazil, on the fouth- 

 eatlern bank of Uraguay river. S.lat. 29^ 15'. W. long, 

 56° 30'. 



BORIN, in Ornil/jology, Under this name Aldrovandus, 

 8 Ray, 



