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nies, and the trade was then in the hands of a few Cata- 
onians. 
Gutana-Bark, in the Materia Medica, the fame with 
what is otherwife called Sima-rouba. 
» ANTILOPE /cripta, Harneffed antilope of Pen- 
nant, in Zoology, is a {pecies of antelope with horns ftraight, 
tapering, fharp-pointed, and direéted backwards, having 
‘two fpiral edges along their whole length. The body is 
marked with two longitudinal white bands along the fides, 
ich are crofled by others in a perpendicular dire¢tion, 
ving the appearance of harnefs. Its habitat is Africa, 
living in large herds in the plains and woods. The horns 
are nine inches long, the ears broad. The general colour 
chefnut ; beneath each eye isa white fpot, and on the thighs 
are white {pots ; the under part of the neck, a part of the 
cheeks, and the inner parts of the legs are white; the fore- 
1 2 It is 44 feet lon 
from the nofe to the rump, and two feet eight inches high ; 
covered with long hairs. It 
6 called by the negroes Oulofes, or Jalofes. 
GUIBARA, in 
‘Cuba; 163 miles N. of St. Jaco. 
sche courfe, s into the Atlantic ocean 
dome miles to the fouth of the ifles of Arran. 
GUIBERT, in Biography, a native of Parma, was chan- 
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projector of Cincius’ infurre&tion againft Gregory 
been the 
VIL. hoping, in cafe of his death or depofition, to be ap- 
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ht © excommunication was 
red out againft him, in the council afflembled by Gre- 
te at Quintileneberg, in Saxony.- In the fame 
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Who had met at Quinteleneberg ; and all perfons were for- 
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ponti 
years, : He was a man of great learning, eloquence 
Souxi, in. the ocefe 
's works coniilt of his 
died in tr2q. H 
- to Italian literature. 
born at Florence m 1521, and was educated with a view to. 
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preaching, and another on reliques; but his mott valuable 
piece is the hiftory of t 
** Geita Dei per Francos. 
rance he made an 
flay in dramatic hiltory ; and fome of his pieces were repre- 
10 years, 
y of their-efteem and regret for 
the deceafed in a letter to his widow. 
RDINI, Francis, was bo 
I After purfuing his ftudies at Pifa and Bologna, he, 
at the age of twenty-three, read letures. upon the inilitutes 
rn at Florence in 
rentine republic to Ferdinand, king of Arragon. By Leo X. 
the government of Modena. and Reggio was committed to 
his care; and, he was made governor of Parma, 
oS Ff lt > oe 4 bee | han) 
FO1O. he f 
¢€ Was 2p 
army; but 
to protect his fovereign from the impe 
y 
powerful 
From 1531 to 1534 he was governor of Bologna, and ex- 
erted himfelf contiderably to reftore the Medici. family in 
Florence. After the death of Clement he returned to his 
native city, where he was made counfellor of fate to duke 
Alexander, i clardini 
tory of Italy, durin 
as many years after his death, on account, probably, of the 
freedom of fome of its {tri€tures on many | 
The hiftory of Guicciardini is allowed to be one of the moft 
valuable productions of the kind in that age. He liad a. 
good opportunity of knowing the facts concerning which he 
wrote ; and his impartiality veracity are very confpi- 
cuous, His ftyle 1s pure and eloquent, but fometimes too 
diffufe. - Perhaps, however, it is the {mal!nefs of the events 
which his fubject led him to defcribe, that chiefly renders 
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+ the narration tedious. The defects are, after all, very trifling 
compared with the excellencies, and they do not, by ahy 
neans, prevent its being a itandard work, anda great honour 
—Guiceiarpinti, Lewis, nephew of the prece 
iterar About the year 1550 he tox up his ree 
fidence in the Low Countries, where he continued till his 
death in 1589. He was author of many morky ahah 
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