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bi sinary - number | acquired the pre-eminence, and. was called: 
perfet, while the triple proportion was degraded into imper- 
te&t. The length of the notes, that is, the perfe€tion or imper- 
fetion, triple or double powers, depended on their fojfition. 
But to conclude this fubjedt we plunge the reader into a fea of 
trouble concerning diftinCtions about which our forefathers 
themfelves were not well agreed: and the rules of Franco 
any and 
fo numerous ands rring 
decifions concerning them, and fo 
little agreed were mufizians abcut the different prolations, 
points of perfection and si onion of inereafe and diminu- 
tion, divifion and tranflat 
4ct. 
° 
‘ander whom he acquired a know- 
guages. In his youth he became 
acquainted’ with Peter Aretino ao whom he caught on 
ic 
fpirit of fatice which made him fo many enemies, and wh 
foe him from his own pine o: Venice, where Areti 
then was, ‘Their union wis neither fincete nor long lived. 
The fuccefs ce Arctino’s letters excited the envy of 
Franco, who publifhed, by way of rivalry, his ‘ Piftole 
Vulgari” in 1539. fierce war was commenced between 
them, and ae en each fide with the ea rancour 
nco left Venice and took his abo 
Be 8. 
f againtt 
with a * Priapeia Italiana,’?? which arn the 
eft obfcenity, the moft unqualified’ ebufe, and the 
boldeft fatire againft princes, popes, the fathers of - the 
council of Trent, arid other eminent perfons. The licenti- 
oufnefs of Franco did not injure his literary reputation ; he 
t Mantua - > followed 
thes nce he 
me, ie he publifhed commentaries’ on the « « Priapela,” 
attributed to Virgil, the copies of which were fupprefle 
and burned by order of pope Paul IV. Under Pius IV 
he continued to indulge 
from agree chattifement by a 
Morone 
ge his viruknce, but was preferved 
oa otection of cardinal 
writing a Latin epi- 
upon ee ee pun ate. erate it fees extraor e 
ould fo long ee € d. as ace from his thay 
j and hanged on nthe common ga oe with- 
and ou ae ce a 
“warning againft the faults, the ne ren and the vices to 
which talents, without principle and morality, are liable. 
- He was author of feveral other works befides thofe alread y 
er’ s Tia d. An ges has been — in the ¢ aes 
Pitteraive,” to raife Frarico 2 the digni 
' of the a Se the age, on account of which he ae 
-’ fingled. out as ° ia Tae : but his writings 
for 
y of a. reform 
AG not juli the Faas Stale 
FRANCO prias » named | the late abbé Ca-. 
-vanilles, in sete de ‘of Francis Franco, a phyfician and bo- 
rgnift of Valer 
aentury, and taught phyfic at Alcala, Seville, and a Coimbra, 
pe juice of the pla 
“enumerated, and he left. behind him in MS. a tranflation of - 
m 
Ja r724h 
~ mulicians of the king’s band on the 
ntia, who lived about the middle of the 16th. 
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Cavan. Ic. v. nea 76. ° Chfs and order, Odandria Tetragynian 
Nat. Ord. uncertain. 
en. “C /. Perianth inferior, permanent, in four 
deep, equal, “lanceolate divifions. Cor. Petals four, ovate- 
an , equal, narrow at the bafe.. Stam. Filaments oo 
ae equal, fhorter than the corolla, inferted in 
and fou 
r confiftine a, four bi ie. capfules, ‘com- 
prefled, and cchering by “their inner ma argins. Seéds mi- 
nute, numérous, cblong, rugged, ranged alone the inner 
edge of the valves. - 
Eff. Ch. Calyx of four leaves. Petals four. Eight 
glands alternate with the ftamens. Capfules four, bivalve, 
cohering by their inner edge. Seeds numerous, 
oe - append iculata. Cav. Ic. v. 6.77. t. §96.—Leav 
fyrate, with diftant lobes, < and — ee 
nd 
Calyx 
ouis Née in the fert 
eaning to one fide, the fize of Borage, ef a pale rofe-cclour, 
their calyx, ftalks, and braéteas at the bafe of cach partial 
ftalk, villefe. Sometimes the flowers are over luxuriant, or 
montftrous. ch petal is marked with a deep coloured 
ot. 
Ea 
cok 
PF. fonchifolia. ee - ve mq. laupank’ ; ; 
Feuilé Plant. Med. 742. grJonLoare lyrate, with im- 
byicated lobes. Calyx ed Ae rer-ftalks fmooth.—Gathered 
by Feuillée on the mountains of Chili, latitude 36° 57 fouth. 
This much refembles the former, but the lobes re the aves 
are reprefented as crowded and imbricated, and the flowers 
more numerous, crimfon, with a violet fpot o on pase yen 
nt appears by Feuillé ée’s acco 
an aftringent quality, being ufed as an oaeao * top 
blood, and by the 
ring | ane atural order is ge nus, known to us 
ae 7 Ge Ww ty of Cavanilles tad Feuillée, we have no 
certain ideas. At feems allied to Drofera, whofe affinity 
is itfelf obfeur 
Yr RANCOCCI, in Geog graphy, a town of the duchy “oF 
Spoleto ; feven miles W. New W leto. 
FRANCG@UR, Francis s, in ae. fuperintendant 
of. ay king of France’s band of mutic, bern 
effor. crac reipected ‘by his county en. econ- 
n his oe youth with M. Rebel, another 
ref{pectable a Mor clofe a eagle that, like our 
Beaumont and fie a conftantly ran the fame courfe. 
Their intimacy was fo et, that it was never known which. 
was the author of the feveral pieces ok ae aeeaensra 
In their early youth they played fo agre 
that they were only known by the title of om “ d ittle faldlers. : 
raucceur was admitted into the opera band in 1710, an 
after was appointed one of the king’s chamber me 
ES 
no 
(°) 
ca 
v 
foon 
ficiane 
he purchafed the place of one of the twenty-four 
eftablifhment, aswelkast 
firvivorfhip of compofer to his a to which he arrived . 
1733. In1s736 Meffrs. Rebel and Francceur were nominated 
infpeGors of. the opera. 742 the latter purchafed of 
M. pliewaat the reverfion of the place ‘of fuperintendant or 
matter 
