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the towns of Italy, which threw off the fovereignty of the 
empire, end formed themfelves into independant republics. 
inft the 
‘He accordingly fet out for Paleftine, at the bead of fixty 
thoufand men. Under his banners-a troop of females rode 
‘In the attitude an armour of men; and the¢hief of thefe 
Amazons, from her gilt {purs aad me epee the 
epithet of the «€ golden-footed dam 8 -€X aes 
- proved unfortunate + 
‘Manuel Coane. onrad, with the: eunndee joined 
“Lonis VII. king of France, in the fiege of Damafcus, ‘ex- 
‘hibiting great prowefs, but without any fuccefs, - The 
: ras raifed, and the emperor returned to Gern rmany, 
‘where he was coeaieiaed with public leas and private 
affliction, by another revolt of Gu elph, and by the death 
of his eldeft fon. This laft event preyed on his mind, and 
‘evidently affeGted his health. Aware of his approadiing 
en was anxious to provide for the fucceffion, and ri 
commended his nephew, Frederic Barbaroffa, to’ the fates 
id 
ihe laf emperor . Gam: of this 
wathe, was duke. of Suabia, and fon the emperor Fre- 
II. He was declared fucefor to his father in 1250, 
. refufe confirm the eleion. 
getes to him t long enjoy his fuccefs 
he fell fick, and died in the flower of youth, leaving one 
fon, named Conradin, e early age of fourteen, 
fe) 
a, et ’ Schifmate inter Henricum IV. 
1. Pont. Maz wrote alfo a 
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eentury, and wag author éf' * A-Chronicle,” and of more 
than fifty volumes on different Payee chiefly hiftorical, 
ohn of Av 
of which iting made much ufe in compofing 
part ‘of his annals. ous writings, this monk ob- 
ae the hon oe ‘epithet of « plilolophen ”—Conra 
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carried on en mperors and the popes. 
The fame author is faid to have written the lives of the 
faints, in a s; but they have not come down to us, 
and al ‘never publifhed.— Con of Mentz 
flourifhed i 2 he “birteenth eg! ¢ and is known by a work, 
‘entitled, “ Chr oguntiarum,”” from the 
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inqutlitor from the which 
>with fo much pa that at length he a a facrifice to 
the indignation of popular clamour. He wrote * The Life 
_of the Princefs Elizabeth of Thuringia,’”’ a has obtained 
a place among the faints.—Conrad is the name of two 
minican monks, natives of Saxony, in the fourteenth cen- 
tury. One wasa member of the chapter of his orderin that 
province, and the other appointed by the pope vicar-general 
of Saxony, in the year 1 e former a fhed, 
among many other things, “ A Gonna on the Book 
- Jobs ar es Concordance to the Bible ;”? « The Stu- 
nt’s Dream ;”? and « common-place Book for the ae 
of Preachers.’ Conrad of Atti, a Piedmontefe Dominica 
monk, was author of “* Commentaria in Jus Canon 
a other pieces. He died in the year 1470—TIn the fix- 
| century oa ola uta cape a learned Ger- 
Ciftertian cae o have bee en well ace 
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the year 1507, at 
on the Bible, 
t it is needlefs to mention them all. 
ur, canon of the church of Zurich, lived in the 
thirteenth century, and is newn for his poate on the fa- 
arn and lives of the popes : an rad of Szxony 
e * A Chronicle,?’? and fome hiftorical ec, to which 
no date | is stig ved. Moreri. 
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FLORENCE, | a’ Francifcan friar, was born ia 
2 is great re utatio the Catholice a his affi- 
uity and zeal in iliutrattag and defending the dodtrines of 
St. Auguftine. He was author of feveral tra&ts on theo- 
logical fubjeds, among which were ‘The Mirror of the 
Chriftian Life ;”? an * Irifh Catéchifm,” printed, at. Sa, 
in 16263 and * Traétatus ‘de Statu parvulorum fine Bap- 
tifmo decedentium ex hac’ Vita,’?? Lovanii, 
