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cardinal BcfTarion, wlio difcovered it in St. Nicholas' church, 

 near Otraato in Calabria ; hence the author was named 

 Ouintus Calaber. It was publifhed at Venice by Aldus, but 

 there is no date attached to the title page. 



QuiNTUs CuRTicjs. See Curtius. 



yoiLTUS Femorls, in Anatomy^ a name given by Fallo- 

 pius and nnany others to one of the mufcles of the thigli, 

 now called the pfoas magnus. 



QuiNTU.s Oculonim, a name given by Vefahus and fome 

 others to one of the mufcles of the eyes, more expreffivcly 

 called by others obliquus fuperior oculi, and opifex circum- 

 gyrationis oculi. 



QUINVA, in Botany, a name by which fome authors 

 have called the amaranth, or cockfcomb. 



QUINZANO, in Geography, a town of Italy; 18 miles 

 S.W. of Brefcia. 



QUINZIEME, Fr. in Mufic, tlie double oclave, above 

 or below any found (fee Fifteenth) ; which is the name 

 of a ftop in our organs, equidiftant from the diapafon. 



QUIOPELA, in Zoology. See Viverua Miingo. 



QUIPOS, in Literary H'ljlory, a name given to knots on 

 cords of different colours, in Peru, which imperfeftly fup- 

 plied the place of writing. This u^vice was adopted, as it 

 has been faid, for rendering calculation more expeditious 

 and accurate. The various colours denoted different ob- 

 jefts, and each knot exprefled a diiHucl number. Thus an 

 account was taken, and a kind of rcgiltcr kept of the in- 

 habitants in each province, or of the feveral produftions col- 

 iefted there for pubhc ufe. But as by thefe knots, how- 

 ever varied or combined, no moral or abftracl idea, no 

 operation or quality of the mind could be reprefented, they 

 contributed little towards preferving the memory of ancient 

 events and inftitutions. The Mexican paintings and fym- 

 bols, rude as they were, conveyed m.ore knowledge of re- 

 mote tranfaftions than the Peruvians could derive from their 

 boafted quipos. If, indeed, the latter had been of more 

 extenfive ufe, and better adapted to fupply the place of 

 written records, they periflied fo generally, together with 

 other monuments of Peruvian ingenuity, in the wreck occa- 

 fioned by tlie Spanifli conqueft, and the civil wars fubfcquent 

 to it, that no acceffion of light or knowledge is derived from 

 them. Robertfon's Hifl. Amer., vol. iii. 



QUIQUI, in Zoology, a fpecies of Mujlela ; which fee. 



QUIR.AZAI, or CuRAPOA, in Ormthohgy. See Crax 

 AkBor. 



QUIRE (if Paper, of the French cah'ier, the quantity 

 of twenty-four or twenty-five fheets. 



QUIRICIA, a name given by fome to the ftone called 

 qmris by the generality of writers. 



QUIRICU, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Ifere ; 1 2 miles E. of Ballay. 



QUIRINACIUM Opium, in the Materia Medica, a 

 name given by fome to the gum we know by the name of 

 affa foetida. 



QUI RIN ALIA, in Antiquity, feafts celebrated, among 

 the Romans, in honour of Romulus, who was called Qui- 

 rinus. See Quirites. 



The Quirinalia, called HAo jlultoritm feri^, were held on 

 the 13th of the calends of March, i. e. on our 17th of 

 Tebruary. 



QUIRINI, Angiolo-Maria, in BicgrapJiy, 3 learned 

 cardinal, by defcent a Venetian, was born in the year 

 1680. While young he entered into the order of the 

 BenediiEtines of Monte Caflino. At Florence he pur- 

 fued a very extenfive courfe of ftudy under feveral of 

 she moll eminent men in fcience and literature of that age. 



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Upon his entering a profefforfhip in his convent, he dc 

 livcred an orarion " D- Mollicse Hiltoriae Preitantia," which 

 was printed. His ftudies were interrupted fome time, by 

 an imagination that he was afflift'.-d with a (lone in his 

 bladde;- ; but the death of his phyfician, who fell 3 viftim 

 to a falfe impreflion refpefting his own cafe, freed him from 

 his fancied complaint, and in the year 1710 he fet out upon 

 his literary travels. He vifited Germany, Holland, Eng-- 

 land, and France, making in the latter country an abode 

 of more than two years, during the greateft part of which 

 time he rcfided in the Benedidtine abbey of St. Germain 

 des Pres. In the courfe of his travels he formed an ac- 

 quaintance with almoil all the literary charafters in thofe 

 countries, and vifited every object of learned curiofity, 

 at the fame time every where exciting a general etteem of 

 his talents, his indufiry, and his conduct. Upon his re- 

 turn to Italy he pubhfhed a Differtation containing a Plan 

 for a Hiflory of Italy ; — an Eflay on the Hillory of Farfa, 

 in the Duchy of Spoleto ; — and an edition of the Office for 

 Divine Service according to the Ufage of the ancient Greek 

 Church. He was foon after created bifliop of Corfu, by 

 pope Innocent XIII., a dignity which he filled in fuch a 

 manner as to infpire the Greek feparatifts with veneration 

 for his perfon. His rcfidence in Corfu was the caufe of 

 his compofmg a learned work, entitled " Primordia Cor- 

 cyra; ex antiquiffimis Monumentis illullTata," 4to. 1725. 

 In the year 1727, Benedict XIII. railed Quirini to the 

 cardinalate, after having nominated him to the bifhopric 

 of Brefcia. His promotion to that fee was followed 

 by fome publications relative to the literature of Brefcia. 

 His attachment to the fee of Rome was difplayed by a 

 life of pope Paul II. printed in 1740, the objeft of 

 which was to defend the memory of that pontiff agairift 

 the attacks of Platina. Soon after this he was appointed 

 librarian to the Vatican ; in this and other polls he con- 

 tinued to ferve the caufe of literature. It was through his 

 means that a new edition of the works of St. Ephrem was 

 given in 6 vols. fol. in the Greek, Syriac, and Latin lan- 

 guages. He hkewife edited the letters of cardinal Pole, 

 written againfl the principles of the reformers. This pre- 

 late died, greatly regretted, at his epifcopal refidence, in 

 1755, at the age of 75. Though a vigorous champion of 

 the papacy, he wrote with a fpirit of candour and modera- 

 tion, which obtained the applaufe of the Proteftants them- 

 felvcs. He was afTociated to feveral literary focieties, among 

 which were the academies of Peterfburg, Berlin, and Vienna, 

 and the Inftitute of Bologna. He enjoyed a large revenue, 

 which he expended with munificence, on objefts of charity 

 and pviblic fplendour. At Rome he beautified the church of 

 St. Mark, whence he derived his cardinal's title, and he 

 contributed liberally to the fine Catholic church at Berlin. 

 He laid the foundation, by a valuable gift of books, of a 

 public library at Brefcia. His own feleft and valuable li- 

 brary he prefented to the Vatican. His charities were nu- 

 merous and extenfive, and he v.'as indefatigable in perform- 

 ing his paftoral duties, vifiting the alpine parts of his diocefe 

 in the moft inclement feafons. Befides the works already 

 mentioned, he pubhfhed an account of his own life, and a 

 narrative of his travels. 



QUIRIQUING, in Geography, an ifland on the coaft: 

 of Chih, near the entrance into the bay of Conception. 

 S. lat. 36° 35'. 



QUIRIS, Quirinus lapis, a name given, by the writers 

 of the middle ages, to a ftone famous among them for its 

 imaginary virtues, but of which they have left us no de- 

 fcription. 



QUIRISTER, Chorister, or Chorlfla, a perfon ap- 

 pointed 



