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ment of public affairs. Being fent by the court of Rome 
upon bufinefs of importance into Spain, be acquitted him- 
felf fo well, that pope Alexander VII. nominated him 
firft, treafurer, and then affelfor to the Spanifli nuntiature. 
He was abfent thirteen years, and upon his return was ap¬ 
pointed judge of appeals, in which office he gave general 
fatisfaftion by his diligence and integrity. He was after¬ 
wards for three years auditor of legation in Urbino ; whence 
beingrecalled to Rome, he occupied fucceflively the pods 
of clerical examiner, fecretary of the memorials, canon of 
the Vatican, prefeCt of the holy cemeteries, and archivift 
of the cattle of St. Angelo. He employed his intervals 
of leifure in the ftudy of antiquities, for which he was f® 
well prepared by his knowledge of the Greek and Latin 
authors. He particularly devoted himfelf to the exami¬ 
nation and collection of all the infcriptions and ancient mo¬ 
numents difperfed through Latium, for which purpofe lie 
traverfed the whole of that province alone and on horfe- 
baclc, climbing hills, plunging into caverns, and leaving 
rio part unexplored. In 1680, he pubiiflied a work De 
Aquis & AquaduBibus veteris Roma, which was part of the 
fruit of his refearches, and gave him a high reputation 
among the learned. He next publifhed a learned differ- 
tation De Columna Trajani, 1683, folio, which contained 
many curious particulars concerning the naval and mili¬ 
tary eftablifhments, &c. of the ancients. There was an¬ 
nexed to it the hiftory of Trajan’s Dacic wars by Ciucco- 
nius. His great collection of infcriptions, entitled Infcrip- 
tionum Antiquarum Exflicatio, folio, appeared at Rome in 
1599, and for its exaCtnefs, and the erudition of the ex¬ 
planations, was efteemed the bed which had ever been 
given to the public. Pabretti died at Rome in 1700, uni- 
verfally efteemed, having managed an originally weak con- 
fiitution fo as to reach his eighty-firft year. His cabinet 
of antique monuments was placed in the old palace of the 
dukes of Urbino. 
FA'BRI (Honorius), a French Jefuit, and volumi¬ 
nous wriier, born in the diocefe of Bellay, in 1607. He 
difcharged for a long time the office of profelfor of phi- 
lofophy in the college of the Trinity at Lyons. Belides 
philofophy and theology, he devoted a confiderable part 
of his time to the ttudy of the mathematics, natural hif¬ 
tory, and medicine. He died at Rome, in 1688. It is 
pretended, although we are not furnifhed with any evi¬ 
dence of the fact, that he had difeovered the circulation 
of the blood before the celebrated Harvey. He was the 
author of, 1. Phyfica, Jcu return corporcarum Scicntia, pub- 
liffied at Paris and. Lyons in fix volumes 4to. 1667. 2. Sy- 
nop/is Optica, 4to. Lyons, 1667. 3. De Plantis, de Genera, 
tione Animalium, & de Homine, 4to. Paris, 1666. 4. Summula 
Tkeologit ?, 4to. Lyons, 1669. 5. Hermann; Conringii Conaif. 
fio-excvjfa, & Romance Fidci Firmitas inconcuffa, 8vo. Augs¬ 
burg, 1664. 6. Kota in R'otas Willelmini Wendrokii, infertecl 
in the Grand Apology for the moral DoCtrine of the So¬ 
ciety of Jefus, folio, Cologne, 1672. 
FABRIA'NO, a town of Italy, in the Hate of the 
Church, and marquifate of Ancona, at the foot of the 
Apennines, celebrated for its excellent paper; it contains 
feveral rich monafteries, and is called one of the four 
cattles of Italy : fixteen miles north of Nocera, and thirty- 
three foii.th-w.eft of Ancona. 
FA'BRIC,/ [fabrica, Lat.] A building ; an edifice. 
■—Any fyftem or equipages of matter ; any body formed 
by the conjunction of diflimilar parts : 
Still will ye think it ftrange, 
That all the parts of this great fabric change ; 
Quit their old ftation and primeval frame. Prior. 
To FA'BRIC, v. a. To build ; to form j to eonftrtiCt: 
Shew what laws of life, 
The cheefe inhabitants obferve, and how 
Fabric their manfions. Philips. 
FA'BRIC-LANDS, f. were lands given towards the re¬ 
building or repairing ot cathedral and other churches ; 
for in ancient times, almoft every perfon gave by his will 
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more or lefs, to the fabric of the cathedral or parifli church 
where he lived ; and lands thus given were called fabric 
lands, being adfabricum reparandum. 12 Car. II. c. 8. 
To FA'BRIC ATE, v.a. f fabricor , Lat.] To build ; 
to conftruCt.—To forge ; to devife falfely. 
FABRICATION,/. The aCt of building ; conftruc- 
tion.—This fabrication of the human body is the imme¬ 
diate work of a vital principle, that formeth the firtt 
rudiments of the human nature. Hale. —A forgery, a lie. 
FA'BRICIA,/ in, botany. See Melaleuca. 
FABRI'CIO, or Fabricius, (Jerom,) commonly cal¬ 
led ab Aquapendente, from the town of that name at the 
foot of the Apennines which was his birth-place, a cele¬ 
brated furgeon and anatomift, born in 1537. He was fent 
to ftudy at Padua, where he obtained the patronage of 
fome Venetian nobles of the family of I.oredano. He was 
a difciple of the famous anatomift Fallopius, at whofe 
death, in 1563, he became anatomical demonftrator. In 
1563 he was made profelfor of furgery, with the obliga¬ 
tion of (till teaching anatomy; and in 1571, the chair-of 
anatomy, which had hitherto been only an appendage to 
that of furgery, was declared primary, and Fabricio was 
enjoined to teach that fcience in the fpring months, and 
furgery the reft of the year. On this occalion his falary 
was raifed to fix hundred ducats, which was afterwards 
fucceflively augmented to eleven hundred ; and after he 
had filled the chair thirty-fix years, an annual penfion of 
one thoufand crowns, for his life was affigned him, under 
the obligation of not quitting the territories of the re¬ 
public. He received various other proofs of the appro¬ 
bation of the Venetian ftate, confequent upon the fame 
which he acquired. It was in compliance with his defire 
that the public theatre of anatomy was ereCted in 1594. 
befides his ftipend, he received large fums from patients 
who came to him from the different parts of Italy, and 
from foreign countries. Yet he was not greedy of fees, 
and often refufed the recompence due to him. This mo¬ 
deration, however, caufed many rich prefents to be fent 
him, which he collected in a cabinet, bearing the inscrip¬ 
tion, Lucri neglcEli lucrum , “ Gain by negleCting gain.” 
He died at Padua in 1619, leaving to a niece an inheri¬ 
tance which is faid to have amounted to 200,000 ducats. 
Fabricius ab Aquapendente was a confiderable author, 
though he did not begin to publifh till he was advanced 
in years. His works are chirurgical and anatomical. His. 
PraleElionesChirurgica, or PentatcuchosChirurgicus, were pub¬ 
lifhed without his approbation by Beyer at Frankfort, 
1592. He himfelf publifhed fir ft in 1613 his Opera Chirur- 
gica in duas partes divij'a, folio, many times reprinted. As 
an anatomift, he is principally diftinguifhed for his de- 
feription of the valves of the veins, which, if he did not 
firft difeover, he firft accurately examined, though with¬ 
out comprehending their life in the circulation of the 
blood. His difeovery of thefe organs is dated as far 
back as 1574, though his work De Venarum OJliolis, did 
not appear till 1603. His other anatomical wmrks are: 
1. De formato Fctu, 1600, a ftplendid performance, with 
many plates. 2. DeVifione, Voce, & Audilu, 1600. 3. De 
Locutione & ejus injlrumentis, 1603. 4. De Brutorum loque/a, 
1603. 5. Dc Mufculi officio, Offum dearticulationibus, &c. 
1614. 6. De Rejpiratione & ejus injlrumentis, 1614. 7. De 
Motu locali animalium fccundum totuni, 1618, quarto. This 
is one of his mod curious works, treating largely on all 
kinds of progrefiive motion in animals, and efpecially 
in man. 8. De Gula, Vcntriculo, & Intejlinis, 1618. 9. De 
totius Animalis Integumentis, 1618. A pofthumous work ot 
his, De formation OviCB Pulli , was pubiiflied by Prevot in 
1621. All the preceding works went through feveral 
editions, and were collectively publifhed by Bohn, Lips. 
1687, folio, and at Leyden with a preface of Albinus, 
1737, folio. 
FABRI'CIUS (Cains), furnamed Lufcus or Lufcinus , a 
Roman commander diftinguifhed for integrity and mag¬ 
nanimity, was conful the firft time B. C 282, when he 
gained a complete victory over the allied Lucanians, 
CLj] Brutians, 
