LOR 



LOR 



and coHtains about 2300 inhabitants; so miles S. of 

 Venice. 



LOREMBERG, a town of tlie county of Goritz ; 7 

 miles E. of Goritz. . 



LORENTE, Andres, in Biography, a Spanifli writer 

 in raufic, and author of a book, now become very fcarce, 

 infitled " El porqiie del la Miifica," in which are contained 

 the four arts of plain-fong, figurative mufic, or proportion 

 of time or miafure, plain coimterpoint, and cotnpofitions. 

 Printed at Alcala in 410. 1672. 



This is truly a very ancient treatifc, which defines and 

 explains the whole art of miific, as far as it was known at 

 the time it was written. See Wo;tG.\M, Dr. 



LORENTZ, in Geograph\<, a town of PruGia, in Sam- 

 land, near the B;dtic ; 24 miles N.W. of Koniglberg. 



LORENTZEN, St., a town of the duchy of Stiria; 8 

 miles N.E of VViiidifch Grat/,. 



LORENZAGO, a town of Italy, in the Cadorin ; 7 

 miles N.E. of Cadora. 



EORENZINI, Fran'cis Maiua, in Biography, an emi- 

 nent Italian poet, was born at Rome in 16S0. He was 

 educated among the Jefuits, and in his twenty-focond year 

 was received into their fociety. but quitted it again within a 

 few montiis, on account of ill-health. He was much at- 

 tached to literature ; but he was obliged, by the fcantinefs of 

 his means, to apply to fome profeffion for his neceffary 

 maintenance. He engaged in that of the law, which he 

 praftifed with fucccf:, for a fhort period, after which he de- 

 voted himfelf entirely to letters. He entered into the aca- 

 demy of the .Arcadi, the chief objeiSl of which was the reform- 

 ation of the bad tafte which had infefted Italian poetry. 

 The founders of this fociety propoled the llyle of Petrarch 

 as a model, in oppofition to the affefted and conilrained 

 diction of Marino and others. Lorenzini did not quite ap- 

 prove the method of Petrarch, but borrowed fome of the 

 force of freedom of Dante, and thus excelled his contem- 

 poraries. He is faid alfo to have excelled in melodramas, 

 or pieces on religious fubjedls, adapted to being fung, 

 written in the Latin language. In the contell between 

 Crefcembini and Gravina, which divided the members into 

 two parties, Lorenzini adhered to that of Gravina, which 

 was the niinority ; he would not, however, agree to the 

 propofal to found a new academy, and after a lucceffion of 

 three years, he was admitted among the old Arcadi. He 

 was now, from an inattention to his domeftic concerns, faUen 

 into a (late of indigence, and, as evils rarely come fingly, he 

 had fuffered much from fome calumnious reports. Being 

 obliged, on litis latter account, to appear before the prefect 

 of the city, he fo completely jultihed himielf, that this 

 magiftrate, Falconeri, to fhew the ellimation in which thf 

 poet was held by himfelf, gave him a place in his houfholJ. 

 He now felt himfelf elevated above the misfortunes of life, 

 and with a line flow of fpirits fpent a part of every day in 

 writing verfes. In thefe he difplayed an enthuiiafm of con- 

 ception, and a loftinefs of language, which diftinguifiied him 

 among his contemporaries. He has been denominated the 

 Michael Angelo of Italian poets, on account of the boldnefs 

 and energy of his expreflions. To excite wonder and admi- 

 ration, he confidered as the peculiar office of poetry, whence 

 he became an enthuliaftic admirer, and almoll perpetual 

 reader of the Hebrew poets, which never failed to infpire 

 him with rapture. He had a great paffion fr.r the fcience 

 of anatomy, and had made, in conjundlion with an eminent 

 furgeon at Rome, fome new obfervations, which they meant 

 to have pubiilhed as the refult of their united labours, but 

 which were furreptitioully ftolen from them- In 1728, 



Lorenzini was chofeii prcfident of the academy, and fliewej 

 his fitnefs for the office by feveral remarkable ads. H* 

 founded five academical colonies in the neighbouring towns, 

 and inftitutcd a private weekly meeting of the Arcadi, at 

 which the plays of Plantus or Terence, in the original lan- 

 guage, were performed by youths trained for the purpofe. 

 Thefe exhibitions were frequented by feveral pcrfons of rank, 

 and were favoured by pope Clement XII., who often fent 

 confiderable funis to Lorenzini to defray liis expeiices. 

 B-'ing deprived by d'ath of his friend Falconeri, his circum- 

 itances were again deranged, and he was relieved, in this in- 

 llancc, by cardinal Borghefe, who enrolled him among bis 

 noble domeftic^, and paid him liberally without requiring 

 any fervice. In 174 1, he difcontinued his theatrical exhi- 

 bition?., retired to apartments in the Borghefe palace, where 

 he applied to letters with more affiduity than ever. He 

 wrote much Latin and Italian poetry ; but his chief lludies 

 were diretted to the facred writings. In the midft of his 

 employments, he died in June 174J. He was faithful and 

 liberal, and his houle was open to young men who were 

 defirous of improvement. His Italian poems are few, but 

 of great excellence. He publiflled the lives of t\Vo of the 

 Falconeri family. Gen. Biog. 



LORENZO, in Geography, a fmail ifland in the Pacific 

 ocean, near the coaft of Peru. S. lat. 1 1'' 4'. 



LonEN'zo, St., a town of Illria, and capital of a diftrift ; 

 9 miles N.N.E. of Rovigno. N. lat. 4^;' 16'. E. long. 



13' 52'- 



LouF.N'ZO t!e Borucas, a town of Mexico, in the province 

 of Colta Rica ; 6j miles S. of Carthago. N. lat. n^* 15' 

 W. long. 84^ 6'. 



Loitij.N'zo, St., a town of South America, in Brafil, and 

 government of Fernambuco. — Alfo, a town of Naphs, in 

 Bafilicata ; g miles N E. of Venofa.— Alfo, a town of 

 N.iples, in Capitanata ; 3 miles S.E. of Lefina. — Alfo, a 



town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra ; 8 miles W. of Bova. 



Alfo, a town of Campagna di Roma, near the fea-coaft ; 8 

 miles E S.E. of Oftia. — .^Ifo, a town of P;iraguay ; 270 

 miles ,S E. of AfTumption. — Alfo, a river of Sicily, which 

 runs into the fea, on the W, coa'l, N. lat. 38''. E. long'. 

 12° 40'. — Alfo, a town of Mexico, in the province of Nevr 

 Bifcay; 8j miles N.W. of Parral. — Alfo, a town of Italy, 

 in the Polefme di Rovigo ; 2 miles S.W. of Rovigo. 



Lorenzo ds Pecurlcs, St., a town of Now Mexico, on 

 the Bravo ; 4^ miles N. of Santa Fe. 



Lorenzo cl Real, St., a town of Spain,, in Old Callile ; 

 26 miles S, of SejMvia. 



Lorenzo, Cape St., a cape on the coaft of Peru, in the 

 province of Quito, W. of the city of that name. S. lat. 

 o" 20'. W. long. 80° 2o'. 



LORETI, II Cav.\lier Vittorii, in Biography, ae- 

 cording to Adami, was a foprano finger in the papal chapel, 

 1622 ; one of the firil evirati employed in mufioal dramas 

 on the ftage, at the beginning of operas ; and a celebrated 

 compofer of Arib a Can/ate ila Camera ; which fee. 



LORETTO, in Geography, a fmall, indifferently built, 

 walled town and bifhop's fee, in the marquifate of Ancona, 

 in Italv, confining chiefly of one (Irect within the walls, 

 and another without as a fuburb, containing 7000 inha- 

 bitants, pleafantly fituated on an eminence, 3 miles from the 

 fea-fhore, 17 S. of Ancena, and 160 j N.E. of Ro.me. It 

 is principally famous for tlie holy houfe, or Casa Sanla ; 

 which fee. 



LoRBTTO, a fmall village of Chriftian Indians, j leagues 

 N.E. of Quebec, in Lower Canada ; deriving its name from 



a chapel, 



