FRA 
~- Monte at Bologna, ta his’ care, > letter foliciting hiwi as 
a friend to fee it put in its place, and if he sound any defeét 
-in it eee he would kindly eee 
ri fa eH that Francia died with ae upon feeing by 
this pidiure that he was as oS in the art compared with 
the fu Malvafia, conkutes Rca 
an im- 
proved ftyle produced his celebrated St. Sebaftian, which, Ca- 
racci defcribes as the idee model of proportion and form 
Bolo 
for Lek ftudents'at 
, in Geogra tn atown of Naples, in Calabria 
NCIA 
vine? 8 miles N.E. of Nicotera. 
FRANCIABIGIO, Marc ONIO, or Franti cia Bi- 
in megan as Mena calls ee as an hiftorical painter, 
born in 1483. {tudied for a fhort time under A lbertinelli, 
but i is an ee as the competitor, and in fome wor i the 
partner of Andreadel Sarto. Similar in principle, but infe- 
rior to hee 7 algae ‘he ftrove to fupply by oacenae the de- 
fects of what fuccefs, will appear on 
* fon of his vvork i in the cloifter of the Nunziata at Florence, 
with thofe of Andrea at the fame place. 
nifh it. He appear. 
‘tories which he shy ee amo 
Scalzo, nor is he there mack inferio ae 
‘ed a at fhe Boe oat a page where i ae ares sie return Of 
a work, which though it remained 
ae fhews Hee . ae advantage. Fufeli’s s Pilkington 
- FRANCIGENA, or FrencuMAn, inour Ancient Cy 
- toms, was a general appellation of all Saar oe ; 7. e. all pe 
fons who could not prove themfelves Englifhm 
FRAN 
if- 
of Andre t the 
CIS I., in Biography, eae ie Germany, fon 
of n 
of Leopold, duke of Lorrain, was born 
- early lite he ferved with high oe Han 
i ried Maria  Therty daughter 
nacre "Charles - 
atid ine - seoure ipa e du 
t 
ria Therefa affociated her hufband in the adminiftration a 
tes, and in I he was ele€ted to the empire : 
tained and merited aa character - a rie prince, but — 
H anxio s to promote the 
+h fatencee 
no 
good of his fubjeéts, aa was a pat of th 
He died at ea dees in 1765, ae behind him a numerous 
family. 
FRAN 
— of Savoy, was prefumptive heir to the crown in t 
‘of Lewis XII. who married him to his eldeft daughter. 
At the death of Lewis he saan to the: throne, — 
n in his twentieth year. ed 
led in the exercifes of a etal age ; ; eloquent i in a 
‘bate, and undaunted in action, courteous in his manners, and 
bounteous in his difpofition, his virtues me accomplifhments 
dazzle 1 the unthinking crowd, who wer lind to the mife- 
alour and inconfiderate am 
bition. He was impatient to diftinguith himfelf, and refolved 
to affert the claims of his houfe ea the duchy of Milan, 
and, pafling the Alps witha powerful army, entered that 
cou cee o fu npply the funds for this expedition, 2 
vice of h ears only reftored - 
was formed ayainft -hi 
mand of Arragon, Leo: x. reek, and ie Swils : the n 
num- 
compari. - 
Hee aud ftill truly formidable though defeat 
-lofs of the 
ANCIS TL bing or France, fon of Charles Orleans, and 
f he = 
‘fected 5 
FRA 
ber and refources of his enemies feemed. only to ftimulate -his 
ardour ; the paffes of. the Alps which had been occupied by 
the Swifs were eluded ; new roads were cut by the active per- 
feverance of the French ; ; the army, after having furmount. 
ed every obftacle of nature and art, entered Italy, and fur~ 
prifed the pee of the papal forces, who, ignorant of their 
ith.a thoufand ca a 
approach, was negligently encamped w 
. 
on the banks of es Po. 
nee of 
during his abience ede. nie regency of France on his mo. 
fe) aprincefs, whofe charaéter in a great 
arious events which diverfified the 
reign of her fon. The king of France, ming the 
nd of the-army, sau the Milanefe and preffed on 
towards the capital... He was oppo y the Switzers a 
who had encamped at Mar ome about leng aerkee 
Hiftory fcarcely affords any example 6 
with greater obitinacy Ga? 
te re tha 
Wearinefs ad da ne fepar: 
without ein their animofity : he Sua 
arge in the morning with freth vigour ; but the 
pai repulfed with cruel flaughter ; ten thoufand perifhéd’ 
n the field, and the reft of their forces retire ee a and 
comnn at fix thor 
e conquerors was fa an men 
es dened of the king expofe 4 nn he moft imminent 
When is ao the confli&t he found zie 
nee cade d with h ee and accompariied only 
few attendants. On he arria a cannon, completely: 
armed, and anxious for ae. pat he {natched a few moments 
S 
whofe fkill‘and m 
is fide. 
ae field of battle from the cele- 
brated chevalier Bayard The Milanefe af ane fell. 
under his power, and pope Leo X. thought i it advifable to. 
a e h him. e concordat made on ae 
o favourable to the pretenions of the Rom 
pera between thefe: ae g movarchs ae from that time to 
oe thofe hoftilities which fo long difturbed the peace of 
rope. To gain Henry VIII. of co to his piel 
Benen procured that interview between them and their 
courts, to which in another article we ae lately ra eat 
known by the name of “ the field of the cloth of gold’® 
(fee France); in which, after a difplay of unparalleled mag 
nifigence at a ruinous expence,’ no political purpofe was ef- 
for ferious bufinefs was not allowed to nated upon 
hours devoted to entertainment, and w he monarchs fe. 
erial c and 
ibes and rail to Wolfey eafily pig eae all 
had made 
e upon 
o by his br 
i impreffion ea the Ss of Francis 
the mind of Henry VIII. The king next over-ran the king-. 
dom of Naver, but foon loit it again ; in the mean time the 
