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Vrey. About the fame time he painted four of the Cardinal 

 Virtues in the angles of S. Carlo Catenari, wliich have been 

 preferved to us by the graver of G. Andran. 



Domenichino not only excelled in hiftorical painting, in 

 works both great and fmall, but he has alfo left us many 

 landfcapes of extraordinary excellence in point of tone ; 

 feldom can fo much be faid of their compofitions. They 

 are generally feleft in fcenery, of a grave and dignified cha- 

 rafter, and are executed with boldncfs and freedom, and en- 

 riched with figures. A very fine one may be feen in the 

 coUeftion of the marquis of Stafford. He is univerfally 

 efteemed as the beft among the difciples of the Carracci, and 

 Nicolo Pouffin is faid to have preferred him before them : 

 but that favour, if we except the Communion of S. Jerome, 

 his works will fcarcely be found to fupport. M. Fufeli 

 has remarked, that " expreffion which had languilhed after 

 the death of Raphael feemed to revive in Domenichino ; 

 but his fenfibility was not fupported by equal comprehen- 

 fion, elevation of mind, or dignity of motive." His forms 

 are by no means fo pure or graceful, or his aftions fo natu- 

 ral and unconftrained, as thofe of that divine painter. His 

 invention does not appear to have been vivid, but his ftudy 

 was unremitting, and with all his defefts he well deferved 

 the title of a great painter, and certainly has not fince been 

 equalled. He died in 1641, aged 60. 



ZAMPOGNA, in the Italian Mufic, is ufed to denote 

 any inftrument that founds like a flute ; and particularly a 

 bagpipe, being an affemblage of divers pipes of different 

 fizes. It is alfo taken for a common flute. 



ZAMRECOTTA, in Geography, a town of Bootan ; 

 34 miles S.E. of Damfong. 



Z AMZEVRIZI, a town of the principality of Georgia, 

 in the province of Carduel ; 15 miles S.W. of Gori. 



ZANA, a river of Peru, which runs into the Pacific 

 ocean, S. lat. 7°. 



Z ANAATHA, in Ancient Geography, a town in the in- 

 terior of Arabia Petrxa. Ptol. 



ZANCHI, Basilic, in Biography, an elegant Latin 

 poet, was born at Bergamo in 1501, and purfued his (Indies 

 under Giovita Rapicio with fo much ardour, that at the age 

 of feventeen he made a coUeftion of Latin poetical epithets, 

 which was afterwards publiflied. Before he had attained 

 the age of twenty he vifited Rome, and was much noticed 

 by the poets of that city. According to the praftice which 

 then prevailed he changed his baptifmal name Pietro into 

 L. Petreius ; but afterwards, returning to Bergamo, and 

 entering, in 1524, among the canons-regular of Lateran, 

 he affumed that of Bafil ; devoting his attention to facred 

 literature, and pubhfhing fome works on the fcriptures. In 

 the progrefs of his life he frequently changed his refidence ; 

 and was every where refpeded, on account of his learning 

 and talents, by the principal fcholars of the age. Under 

 the fevere decree of pope Paul IV. iffued in 1558, which 

 commanded, under the threatened penalty of the prifon or 

 galleys, all the religious to return to the cloifters to which 

 they belonged, Zanchi was imprifoned, and fell a facrifice to 

 the rigour of confinement. One of his biographers fays, 

 that he had few equals in the fweetnefs, and fewer in the 

 elegance of his poetry ; fpecimens of which occur in his 

 eight books of poems, one of which bears the title of 

 " De Horto Sophise," and defcribes the moft remarkable 

 faAs and doftrines of the Catholic religion. Some of his 

 poems are inferted in the " Delicis," and the " Carmina 

 Poctarum Italorum." He alfo publiflied a kind of Lexi- 

 con, entitled " Latinorum Verborum ex variis auctoribus 

 Epitome." Moreri. Gen. Biog. 



Zanxiii, GmoLAMO, an Italian Proteftant, was born in 



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1516 at Alzano, in the territory of Bergamo, and entered 

 among the canons-regular of Lateran at the age of fifteen 

 in which conneAion he remained for ten years. But Peter 

 Martyr having communicated to him, and others of his fra- 

 ternity, the opinions of the reformers, he departed with 

 him from Italy in 1530, and went to Geneva. From Ge- 

 neva he removed to Strafljurg upon an invitation to fupply 

 a vacancy in the profefTorfliip of facred literature, whjch he 

 accepted in 1553, and which he occupied for about eleven 

 years. Having figned the Augfturg confelfion, with fome 

 reftriftions, he was aggregated to the chapter of St. Thomas, 

 in Strafburg. Although his difpofition was moderate and con- 

 cihatory, he was engaged in fome difputes with the zealous 

 Lutherans, who determined to procure his expulfion. With 

 this view, they acquired his fignature of a formulary, to 

 which he aflented in the following terms : " Hanc doftrinse 

 formulam ut piam agnofco, ita etiam recipio." The am- 

 biguity of this declaration was not fatisfaAory to his adver- 

 faries, and he was therefore induced to refign, and to accept 

 an invitation to a church in Chiavenna. The articles with 

 regard to which he was fufpefted by the Lutherans were 

 predeftination, the perfeverance of the faints, the eucharift, 

 ubiquity, images, antichrift, and the end of the world. 

 Having refided at Chiavenna from the year 1563 to 1568, 

 he removed to the theological chair at Heidelberg, when he 

 took the degree of doftor. When Frederick III., who was 

 a zealous Lutheran, fucceeded the eleftor palatine, and re- 

 moved the Heidelberg profeflbrs, Zanchi declining offered 

 fettlements at Leyden and Antwerp, took a place in count 

 John Caflmir's college at Newftadt. Upon the reftoration 

 of the expelled profeffors, Zanchi, on account of his age, 

 was declared " emeritus ;" and having loft; his fight, died 

 at Heidelberg in 1590. 



Highly efteemed among Proteftants in general on account 

 of his learning and invincible attachment to their principles, 

 John Sturmius affirmed of him, " that he fliould not be at 

 all anxious for the caufe of reformed religion, if Zanchiu* 

 alone were to difpute in the council of Trent againft all the 

 fathers prefent." Bayle. 



ZANCLE, in Ancient Geography, a town of Sicily, on 

 the Itrait which feparates this ifland from Italy. According 

 to Herodotus, the Meffenians, driven from the Peloponnefus 

 by the Lacedaemonians, tranfplanted themfelves into Sicily, 

 took poffeffion of Zancle, and gave it the name of Meffana, 

 whence Meffina. 



ZANDENDORF, in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 the margravate of Anfpach ; 2 miles S.W. of Cadolzburg. 



ZAND HOP, a town of Pruffia, in Ermeland ; 16 miles 

 S.E. of Heilfberg. 



ZANE, a town of Virginia; 9 miles S.S.E. of Win- 

 cheiler. — Alfo, a townfhip of Champaign county, in the 

 dillrift of Ohio, with 645 inhabitants. 



ZANES, in Ancient Geography, a town of Upper Moefia, 

 fortified by Juftinian, fo as to render it one of the ftrongeft 

 bulwarks of the empire. 



ZANESVILLE, in Geography, a tovvnfliip of the fl;ate 

 of Ohio, in the county of Muflcingum, on the Scioto, with 

 2154 inhabitants. 



Z ANETTI, Antonio, in Biography, of Venice, maeftro 

 di capella to the duke of Modcna, the latter end of the 

 17th and beginning of the ]8th century, for whom, and 

 for the theatres in Venice, he produced fix or feven operas 

 that were much efteemed in thofe days. 



Zanetti, Francisco, was born in the year 1740, 

 maeftro di capella in the cathedral at Perugia in 1770. He 

 had prcvioufly paffed fome time in London, where fome 

 elecant and cafy fonatas of his compofition were pubhflied 



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