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SL, St. in Geography, an ifland in the great ee as caught every unprejudiced eye; indeed, the filled 
iver ae Piste, §. America; difcovered by Sebaflian Cabot the ilage and oce cupied the attention of the fpeCtators fo 
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in the year 1526. mei that they could Ieck at n g elfe while fhe was in 
Garin, Si. a Spanith miffion and fettlemeat in New view. ks and (pi glries, which had fix cha- 
Albion, frit formed in 1773; 12 miles N.E. of Point 1 &er, feem to have been very much fubdued before her 
Lafuen —Alfo, a town of Mexico, ia New Bifeay; arrival in England. In converfation fhe feemed the moft 
170 miles SS. W. of Parral: “intelligent and beft bred virtuofa with whom we had ever 
peaiasuaipe de converted; not only on the fubject of mufic, but on ever 
3 7 ioe j eminent er- ne , y 
GABRIELL Anprza, in Bios graphy, a P a conce ae which a well educated female, who had 
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former on the organ, maeftro di “cappella of St. Mark’s fee avorld 1 
éathedral at Venice ‘the 1Gth century, and a Glasice bad ner cay reafona ris aes sae ~ have ob- 
a j . a ned infor She had been three years in Ruffia 
compofer, ‘In 1589, ke publifhed + Ricercari a quattro,” ; oo ye ae 
P a sini. in th previous oh her ¢ eee in England, during which time no 
the precurfors of Fan'afie, which fee. Padze Martini, in the i f ind : 
firft'vol, of hie « Stora delia Mufica,” gives the following peculiaritics of individual cha raéters, national manners, or 
a Se eo acne Mifor. a voc, lib. ie: Ven court etiquette, had efcaped her obiervation. In youth, 
3 a ve ole ’ . 
" : Trebibrids ae ee er ner beauty and caprice had occafioned a univerfal delirium | 
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: 5 : ie mgr ee S.3 Venet. 1584 Pal i Peni. among her young countrymen, and there were fill remains. 
: ae nee Scie : ied Canzoni iW Frangele per oth fufficiently powerful, while the was in England, to 
0. a a : . » 15 ce credib ir former influence. W re{fpect to 
ae ’ eee Ecol fap 1 Hiflory, a {08k of ana sla tae) of her execution, it was never fo exceffive as to 
in Ecelefiaftical fiftory, ¢ t all- ceafe to be agreeable ; i in flow movements h 
vom ents her raged 
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baptifts that appeared in Pomerania in 1530. They derive powers, like thofe in general of performers the moft r 
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their name from Gabriel Scherling, who, after havi me been pound for agility, were not fufficiontly touching or Mfec. 
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for fome time tolerated in that country, was obliged to tual to occafion dilputes concerning her genre. Soon after 
remove, and died in Poland. fhe quitted England, fhe retired to Bologn na, where, if ftill 
ELLI, Giovanni, in Bi ography, enga ‘gS . ae we hope fhe refides in pans tranquillity, after all 
in the fervice of the republic of ae pe lifh ed, orms whith her beauty and tale = = occafioned, 
1587,. Concerti Mutic di Chiefa Madrigali a 65 75 8, eee fhe remained in the fervice of the 
10. 12. 16. voci. lib. i and i ie Intonationi FOrgand, hb. i. GABRIEL-SIONITA, a learned Maret who flou- 
Ven. zs 3+ rifhed in the feventeenth century, was profeffor of the 
Gas 1,CatrenmnaA. Nothing having ees finee Syne oe Arabic languages at ‘Rome. From this city 
- ah vl of the Gen. Hift. cf Muf. was publifhe he v o Paris, to take a part in editing the Polyglot 
change opinion of the talents = this female finger, we bible, spublithed by M. Le Jay, and carried with him {ome 
fall ae the article from that w Syriac and Arabic verfions tranfcribed by himielf from 
e moft memorable mufical event of the feafon of MSS. The Latin tranflations which accompany thefe 
1775 and 1776, was the arrival in London of the celebrated vertfions, excepting thofe of the book of Ruth, were ei 
Catterina Cavill, called early im life La Cuo cheting, bein ng nifhed by Sionita. After this he was appointed profeffo 
the daughter of a cardinal’s cook at Rome, She had, how- royal of the Syriac and Arabic languages at Paris, and was 
ions of low birth in her countenance or de- highly efteemed and much employed as a tutor in them. 
ever, no indicati 
portment, which had all the grace oui dignity of a Roman lied in the year 1648. tcn, in the ee Poly- 
matron. The firft time her name a ee in the “Indice glot, has copied the verfions introduced into Le Jay’s b 
de’ Spetta ccoli Teatrali,’’ ten years before fhe came to Sicnita.” Tis learned pie ublifhed tranflations of other 
England, “when fhe fung at Turin ; to ie name is added, Arabic works, and among thefe was an Arabic ge ogr aphy, 
braviffina, and her reputation was fo great before her arrival entitled « Geographia Nubienfis.”’ Moreri. 
for finging and caprice, that the ae genta perhaps GABI abe oe better known under the name. 
too much of bot bh, was unwilling to allow her due praife m of Rienzi xtraordin political character, was born in 
her ‘performance, and too liberal in afcribing every thing flie the Pata ce! ry a : ‘Rome. His father was a tavern 
{aid fo did to pride and, infolence. It having been reported keeper of the lower order, and named Lorenzo, which being 
that fhe often ae ficknefs, and fung ill when fhe was contended 6 Rienzo, the fon was called Nicolo or Cola di 
able to ae well, go were willing to allow fhe cou uld be Rienzo. He received an excellent education, the aden ic 
fick, or that fhe ever fung her beft while fhe.was here ; and of which he knew well how : eftimate. He boce 
thofe who were inclined to Paes that fometimes fhe ie fatiated with reading the beft Roman aniho mee with 
perhaps have exerted herfelf, in pure caprice, thought her een into the reliques of antiquity difperfed through 
voice on t cline, or that ee as ufual, had deviated his native city. con became celebrated, and the com. 
aga truth in fpeaking of her talents. Her voice, though mon people, who do not readily give all the credit due to a 
of an exquifite quality, was not very powerful; and her literary character, were accuftomed to re im as an oe 
chieF excellence oe ‘been the rapidity and neatela of her traordinary perfon, and to, look up to him as one deftine 
execution, the furprize of the public muft have been dimi- redrefs thofe wrongs of which they were deeply fenfible me 
a on Nye ne after Mifs Davics, who ive in the the higher orders of the citizens viewed him with refpett, on 
any of her fongs, with a neatnefs fo nearly account of his acknowledged learning and talents. His 
eau hat o ommon hearers could diftinguifh no difference. firft poft was that of a public {cribe or notary, and, in 1346, 
There Were, however, a few fair and al criminating critics, we find him joined in a deputation from the Romans to the 
a fuperior {weetne{s in the natural tone of new-elefted pope Clement VI. at Avignan, for the purpofe 
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— not only fuperior to ae a but to every and real eloquence, and painted in fuch ftro ‘ong colour 
finger of her time. As an actrefs, igh of low ftature, infolences and oppreffions of the nobles, that high ea were 
eo were fuch grace and dignity in her ou and deport- excited of his character ; the pope created him an apoftolic 
Vou. XV. 3¥ notary, 
