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sndflufFed: fuch is the bandage frequently feen in armories 

 about the heads of Moors, favages, &c. 



It is always of the two principal colours of the coat. 

 The torque is the leaft honourable of all the enrichments 

 worn on the helmet by way of creft. 



TORQUEMADA, John de, in Biography, a cardinal, 

 was born at the place in Spain whence he took his name in 

 1388, and entered at the age of 15 into the Dominican 

 order at Valladolid. He diftinguifhed himfelf at home, in 

 the univerfity of Paris, and in various other places, and at 

 lengtii was promoted to the cardinalate, under the title of 

 St. Sixtus, in 1439. After having been fuccelTively 

 tranflated from one bifhopric to another, he died in 1468, at 

 the age of 80 years. He publillied a great number of 

 works on theology, and in defence of the papal authority. 

 Among other preferments which he enjoyed, he was con- 

 fefTor to Ifabella of Caftile from her infancy ; and fuch was 

 the intemperate zeal that aftuated him, he extorted from 

 her a promife, that if Ihe ever came to a throne, (he would 

 make the chaftifement and deftrutlion of heretics her prin- 

 cipal objeft. 



Another perfon of the fame name was provincial in New 

 Spain, and pubhfhed a Spanifh work under the title of 

 " Monarquia Indiana ;" or, A Hiftory of the Wars, Difco- 

 veries, Conquefts, &c. in the Weft Indies, in 22 books, 

 3 vols. fol. 1 615. Dupin. Moreri. 



ToRQUEMADA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the 

 province of Leon, on the Arlanza ; 12 miles E. of Pa- 

 lencia. 



TORQUILLA, in Ornithology, the name of a fpecies of 

 wood-pecker, more commonly known by the name of jynx, 

 and called in Englifh the -wry-neck. 



TORQUINO, in Geography, a river of Cuba, which 

 runs into the Spanifh Main, N. lat. 20°. W. long. 



76° si- 



TORR, a town of Arabia, in the province of Yemen ; 

 32 miles E. of Loheia. 



TORRALBA, a town of Spain, in New Caftile; 7 

 miles N.E. of Civdad Real. 



TORRALVA, a town of Spain, in Navarre, 15 miles 

 from Lftella. 



TORRANO, a town of Spain, in Navarre; 15 miles 

 W. of Pamplona. 



TORRE, FiLiPPO DEL, in Biography, an eminent an- 

 tiquai-y, was born at Ciudad de Friuh in 1657, and having 

 acquired an extenfive knowledge of jurifprudence, mathe- 

 matics, and anatomy at the univerfity of Padua, he fought 

 farther improvement at Rome in 1687, and became aii 

 academician of the college of the Propaganda. He was 

 afterwards employed as auditor to cardinal Imperiali, in his 

 legation to Ferrara, and accompanying him on his retui'n to 

 Rome, he devoted his attention to the great work on the 

 antiquities of Antium, which he publifhed in 1700. In 

 1702 he was nominated by pope Clement XI. to the 

 bifliopric of Adria, and there he prcfided with great repu- 

 tation until his death, in 1 7 1 7. Among his writings we may 

 mention as the principal, his " Monumenta Veteris Antii," 

 4to. ; befides which, he publiftied feveral other didcrtations 

 on antiquities, natural hillory, &c. and left many more in 

 MS. Gen. Biog. 



Torre, John Maria de la, a celebrated Italian phi- 

 lofopher, was born .it Rome in 1 7 10, ftudied at the Cle- 

 mentine college, and was eletted profeifor of mathematics 

 and philofophy in the college of Ciudad, in the Frioul ; 

 and afterwards removed to Naples, where he taught the 

 »ame fciences in the archiepifcopal feminary. In 1754 he 

 svas appointed librarian to the king of Naples, fuperintend- 



ant of the royal printing-houfe, and coiifervator of the 

 mufeum. In the conftruftion of microfcopes he is faid to 

 have made confiderable improvements. He was a member 

 of the principal academies in Italy, and a correfpondent of 

 thofe of Paris and Berlin, and of the Royal Society of 

 London. He died in March 1782. His works, befides a 

 Treatife on Arithmetic, are, " The Science of Nature," 

 Naples, 1749, 2 vols. 4to. ; Venice, 1750, 4to. ; " Elementa 

 Phyficae," Naples, 1767, 8vo. ; " Hiftory of the Phenomena 

 of Vefuvius," ibid. 1755, 4'^°' > " Microfcopic Obfer- 

 vations," ibid. 1776. 



Torre, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Catalonia ; 

 6 miles S. of Lerida. 



Torre del Acri, or Agri, a town of Naples, in Bafilicata, 

 on the coaft of the gulf of Tarento ; 25 miles S.S.E. of 

 Matera. 



Torre del Anmintiata, a town of Naples, in Lavora ; 9 

 miles S.E. of Capua. 



Torre Calenga, a town of the ifland of Corfica ; 15 

 miles N.E. of Ajazzo. 



Torre de Candelaro, a town of Naples, in Capitanata ; 

 1 1 miles W.S.W. of Manfredonia. 



Torre CapigUola, a town of the ifland of Corfica ; 10 

 miles N. of Ajazzo. 



Torre del Capo di Rofito, a town of Naples, in Calabria 

 Citra ; 18 miles N.E. of Caflano. 



Torre Carabeje, a town of the ifland of Corfica; 10 

 miles W.S.W. of Vico. 



Torre di Cedagna, a town of Spain, in Catalonia ; 9 

 miles N. of Piiycerda. 



Torre di Francolifi, a town of Naples, in Lavora ; 8 

 miles N.W. of Capua. 



Torre di Gakria, a town of the ifland of Corfica ; 15 

 miles S. of Calvi. 



Torre la Galtarella, a town of Naples, in Capitanata ; 2 

 miles S. of Viefte. 



Torre Girolata, a town of the ifland of Corfica ; 20 

 miles S. of Calvi. 



Torre del Greco, a town of Naples, in Lavora. This 

 town was deftroyed by an eruption of Vefuvius ; yet the 

 inhabitants, after the eruption, returned and rebuilt the 

 town on the fame fpot ; 5 miles S.E. of Capua. 



Torre Maggiore, a town of Naples, in Capitanata ; 5 

 miles S.W. of St. Serviero. 



Torre di Mare, a town of Naples, in Bafilicata; 20 

 miles S.E. of Matera. 



Torre di Me%zo, a town of Italy, in the department of 

 the Mincio ; 16 miles E.S.E. of Mantua. 



Torre Molina, a town of Spain, in Grenada ; 1 2 miles 

 from Antequera. 



Torre de Moncorvo, a town of Portugal, in the province 

 of Tras OS Montes, furrounded with a wall, and defended 

 by a baftion and a caftle. The number of inhabitants is 

 about 1300; 42 miles S.S.W. of Bragan^a. N. lat. 41°. 

 W. long. 6° 44'. 



Torre di Neopoli, a town of the ifland of Sardinia ; 5 

 miles N. of Oriftagna. 



Torre di Nogaro, a town of Italy, in the department of 

 the Mincio ; 1 1 miles E. of Mantua. 



Torre d'OgUo, a town of Italy, in the depaitment of 

 the Mincio, near its union with the Po ; 11 miles S.S.W 

 of Mantua. 



Torre del Penna, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Citra, 

 on a promontory, near the Adriatic ; 15 miles E. of 

 I>anciano. 



Torre Rojfo, a town of Naples, in the province of 

 Otranto ; 10 miles N. of Tarento. 



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