GAS 
Gafparini, who fent Scarlatti another cantata, in ie the 
modulation of the recitative is very ‘lear — and abftru 
e the la 
trancous, aud the notation the moft pleas and al ipa 
This nti- 
+ Alef Seat in ie 
regolo Cro ae co, ed eé i pro- 
Francefco Gafparini’s twelve cantatas, of which the’ fe- 
edition was printed at Lucca 1697, were the firft 
oO are ara inted 
s,’ 
> of the 
kewife of 
is ftyle of finging and “good tafte acquired 
hin great reputation. 
He had many f{cholars as a finging-mafter, who became 
iluftrious ; among the reft the celebrated Fauttina. Hav- 
ing for a long tine fung the mufic of others, he, in turn, 
_ made cthers fing his mufic, and compofed many operas 
which pleafed. 
'GASPARINO, alian saad was born, 
iza, a place 
H 
preere an It 
14th century, at Bar 
n the Bergamafque, ha he derived his fa 
acquired, at an = aaa a tafte for the iat authors of 
wo 
and other gine written by 
of exercife as models to ‘his pupils. s death was univer- 
faliy lamented by the city of Milan, and his merits and 
great learning were highly extolled by contemporary writer s. 
Moreri. 
GASPE Bay, in Ge eosraphy, a bay on the ealt. coaft 
Lower Canada, and welt fide of the gulf of St. Lawrence. 
ASP, Cape, a cape on the coaft of Canada, in the gu 
of St. peas : little S. of Gafpe bay ; near which is 
an Indian fettle 
GASPEE, a a dittri and county of Lower Canada, 
prehending the point of land, bounded by the river and Pa 
of St. Lawrence on the north and eaft, and the bay of 
Chaleur S. and S.W. 
Gasprge, or Namquil Point, a point feven miles S. of 
Providence, Rhode ifland, projecting from the weltern mh 
of Providence river ; fo called from the name of the 
{chooner nage which was burnt June 10, 1772, by tot 
- e m Providence, painted like Nar ele In- 
ote feveral editions ; 
E 
on ASPESIA, a tratt ef country on the S. fede of the 
GAS 
mouth of St. a as river, and on the N. fide of Chaleur 
bay, in Lower Canada. Its eaftern extremity is ca 
Rofiers. It is ti ited by Indians, called Gafpefians. 
GASSAGO, a town of Italy, in the department of the 
ela; 3 miles N.W. of Brefcia. 
GASSEN, a town of Lower Lufatia; 15 miles S.E. of 
G 
uben.. 
GASSENDI, Perzs, in Biography, @ a ieee pilfopher 
iri eminence, was vier in t Chanterfier 
ear Digne, in yen the aly oe “Of four ears 
- manifeited at aie "difpofition ae thole extraordinary 
talents, by the cultivation an d exercife of which he acquired 
future celebrity. It was in this period of his infancy that 
he began to direét his pay to the heavens, and to avail 
himfelf by retirement of e ery favourable Daal ee 
eal for cone apie them with fatisfaGtion ad- 
tage. His parents obferved thefe dawnings of pate 
w ee delight, and = their circumftances were moderate, 
determined to give him the beft education in their 
power. ith this view, he was firft placed under the in- 
itruction ofan excellent mafter at Digne, where, by his pro- 
ficiency in t anguage, and in rhetorical exercifes, 
he laid the foun ion of the high oe of aaa to 
which he attained in early life. igne re- 
mo Aix, where, for two ar ce ena “himfelf . 
the ftudy of philofophy under an eminen 
the age of 16 years he was appointed ee of rhetoric oH 
Digne ; 3 and at 19, profeffor of philofophy in the univerfity 
of Aix. hilft he neglected no opportunity that occurred 
of sb dade on rire in the learned languages, and: alfo 
in mat ronomy, he diligently examined the 
ancient fyftems os pict aig. - tae at of a ailedaea 
rhich he preferred to ever and of vy 
ealous 
h the authority of Ariftotle was acknow- 
ledged in all public {chools, Gaffendi, during the exercife 
of his profefforfhip at Aix, ventured publicly to expofe the 
defects of his fyftem e€tures which contained his 
h 
- cenfurcs of the Ariftotelian ead ee delivered in the in- 
al 
dire form of paradoxic 
the title of «“ 
at et 
n high eftimation by feveral 
learned men, particularly by Nicolas Peirefc, the prefident 
of the univerfity o of Aix ; and induced him to ufe his tuterett 
n lo gic. d trom 
of li 
profecuting ¢ the plan he had propofed, and induced to defift 
of Ariftotle, by the 
oppofition of his bigoted and: intolerant avaceen: 3 never- 
thelefs he avowed his attachment to the fyitem of gay a 
and then defended it with great ability and learning. 
cordingly he undertook to frame from Lucretius, Lectenins 
and other ancient writers, a confiftent fcheme of Epicurean 
maintained by Ga 
Cartefian philofophy, which were then gaining ground ; a 
