DAN: 
contend that no work of Italian raed ea oe a ftamp of 
ng 
original and fublime aa, deur of con. 
ception, warmth of f 
exp efs 
ante to : the firft perfon who filled 
the chair was Boccacio. The belt edition is that of Venice, 
; Boccacio has de- 
reco ce meeting with a book in an apot ecary’s fhop, 
which he had been long looking for, he opened it, and read 
from morning to night without being roufed from his purfuit 
by the diftraGtion and tumilt occafioned bya great wedding 
pafling through the adjacent ftrect. was a con- 
language : 
’ is the tig work to which he is in- 
debted for celebrity. Gen, Moreri. 
ANTE, IGNATIUS. an Italian mathematician of the 16th 
entury, a native of 
eniaat for their oocitne 
w 
treated with the utmoft liberality ; and here he left, as monu- 
ments of his fame, a marble quadrant, an equinotial and me- 
a line on the front of the church of St. Maria Novella. 
removed to B 
ftruction of the maps of Italy in the Vatican gallery. For 
this labour he was prefented with th ere epee . aay 
which he did not enjoy any length O€&. 
19, 1586, at the age of 49: ae behind him ome fale: 
matical treatifes. va . Mor 
TE, JEAN aa native of Per erugia, a mathema- 
tician, who flourifhed een the end of the fifteenth century. 
He is faid to have invented a method of makin ng artifica 
wings, fo see ia aa eae to the weight of the body that 
re was a he made many fuccefsful scccrnede: 
but at eet one of his wings failed him, when he was 
emit at a grand {pestacle ; 3 he fell upon the church of 
Notre Dame, oe was ferioufly wounded. He, however, 
recovered undert ands of an able furgeon, and afte: wards 
taught the putienstcs at Venice. He died at the age of 
forty. oreri. 
DANTELLE,, in Heraldry, the fame with danché, or 
Lee with dancetté, viz. a large open indenture. See 
A TE. 
DANT HELET A, in Ancient Geography, a people who, 
according to Ptolemy, inhabited [hrace. This author af- 
figns them the town of Pantalia 
ANTZIC, or Dan NTrICK, in the Polifh language 
Gdantzk, in German Danzig or Dantzig, i in Latin Gedanum 
or Dantifcum, in Geograph, Ay, - ancient and large city of Polith 
or Weftern Pruffi, in that par deter iain having anciently 
belonged to the duchy of Pom has retained the name 
of Little Pomerania or Pouerellic i ae on the leaft of the 
DAN 
feveral branchesoftheriver Vil fhula, which formthe iflandscatied 
re ] ae "Vill Olin, the mouth SE ie Vitulas ; and 
when the weather is calm m, in Dantzic roa, ca’ ie the Lalr- 
wafer, which is from eight to fifteen fathom 
The city of Dantzic is bounded on the Tat ae theWif. 
tula, on the fouth by the kingdom of here on the nerth 
by the Baltic fea, and on the welt by the duc uchy of Pom 
vania, which belongs to the king of Prufia Tt is Situated 
in E. long. 18° 30, and N. lat. §4° 22! 23” twenty-four 
miles N, W. of oe and thirty-two N. W. of 
Elbing, 76 miles N. of Thorn, 150 N. W. of Meta 
oN. of Cracow, 220 N. - Of Breflau, So miles S.W 
Konigfberg, 260 S.W. of Riga, goo N.E. of Paris, a 
540 5.W. of St. Peterfburg. Two {mall rivers, the Ra- 
fee and Motlan, run oe laa the nae which is divided into 
bv 
Ore 
with their refpeétive 
ld bs, St. fe or + Albe “Ola! Scotland, Stoltzen- 
ber ies oe “Bilcholiberg "Schidlita, or ied and 
New ’ Scot tzenberg which is ae a high 
ne view of 
F ihe faburbs of Dantzic be- 
ing called Old and New Carees is owing to the fignal 
fervices which a gentleman, of the Scotch family of the 
- Douglas, rendered to the city whilft it was beech by the 
Pala in confequence of which the Scots obtained privi 
; 2. leges that induced numbers of them to fettle : Dantzic in 
the feventecth centur re 
corn magazines or granaries form a feparate tc town 
of lofty buildings, idea into feveral itreets, no 
Few of thefe ma- 
gazines are lower than five ftories, and each ftory is pro- 
vided with funnels or pipes to let down the cora trom one 
chamber } into the ot Not a fingle ada is allowed 
d, which is guarded at night 
by fierce maftiffs let loofe by their keepers, who quit 
ny ifle foon after fun-fet, when the bridge is drawn 
PThe houfes at Dantzic are of brick and ftone, commonly 
five, fix, or more ftori 
The principal 
ae ate the cathedral, the guildhail, the arfenal built 
n 1606, the public weigh- houfe, and the exchange; but 
they are old ftruciures aod more remarkable tor their 
antiquity than for their eleganc 
Dantzic was the firft town ‘of eae that embraced the 
Lutheran perfusfion in the year co 
Lutheran churches, two eare one ta 
Roman ie ae and before its furrender to the French, 
in 1807, it had aifo an Englifh chapel. There are feveral 
hofpitals and charitable foundations. 
Cluverius, or Cluvier, the celebrated geographer, is the 
most illattrious learned man that was born at Dantzic, al- 
though 
