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viverra, I.at.] An animal faid to have been brought hi¬ 
ther from Africa. See the article Mustela. A kind 
of narrow woollen tape. An utenfil employed by the 
manufacturers of glafs. 
To FER'RET, v. a. To drive out of lurking places, 
as the ferret drives the cohey.—The archbifhop had fer- 
retted him out of all his holds. Heylin. 
FER'RET ISLAND, a fmall ifland hear the ead coaft 
of Labrador. Lat. 53. 40. N. Ion. 55. 40. W. Greenwich. 
FER'RETER, J. One that hunts another in his 
privacies. 
FERRE'TI (Emilio), an eminent lawyer of the fix- 
teenth century, born at Caffel-Franco, in Tufcany, in 
14S9. He ftudied at Pifa and Sienna, and afterwards 
went to Rome, where he became fecretary to cardinal 
Salviati. He was admitted an advocate at the age of 
nineteen, on which occafion he changed his baptifmal 
name of Dominico, for that of Emilio, or Aimilius. A 
profeffordiip of law was then conferred upon him at 
Rome, and the applaufe he obtained in his office caufed 
Leo X. to appoint him his fecretary. He exercifed this 
function for fome years, and then went to France, and 
taught law at Valence with great reputation. Francis I. 
made him a counfellor of the parliament of Paris, and 
employed him in embaffies to the Venetians and Floren¬ 
tines. He was engaged in various negotiations, and finally 
became prefedbr of law at Avignon, where he died in 
1552. He printed, in 1341, at Lyons, a corrected edition 
of Cicero’s Verrine and Philippic Orations. He alfo pub- 
liffied feveral works in his own profeffion, among which 
was an expofure of the errors of Bartoli. 
FERRE'TO, an early hi dorian and poet of Vicenza, 
born in 1296. Of his life little is known ; but it appears 
from his remains that he was one of thofe who contri¬ 
buted to the redoration of polite literature in Italy. He 
wrote, in Latin, a Hidory of Italian Affairs, from the 
death of Frederic II. in 1250, to the year 1318. It was 
fird printed in Muratori’s Collection of Writers on Italian 
Hidory, vol. ix. together with fome Latin poems of the 
fame author, one of which relates the origin of the Scali- 
gers, and the aCtions of the great Can della Scala. 
FER'RI (Ciro), an eminent painter, born at Rome, in 
1634. He became a difciple of Pietro di Cortona, whole 
manner he caught to fuch perfection, that their works 
are fometimes indidinguifhaple. He was a man of ele¬ 
vated genius, and painted in a grand dyle. His works bore 
a high price ; and he was much employed by the popes 
and perfons of rank. The grand duke brought him to 
Florence, and employed him iivfiniffiing the works left im- 
perfeCt by Cortona. He had a large penfion, and was made 
principal of the Florentine fchool, which place he long 
poffeffed. On his return to Rome he didinguilhed hini- 
feIf as an architect, and feveral churches and grand altars 
were ereCted from his defigns. His lad work was the 
cupola of St. Agnes, in the Piazza Navona, in painting 
which he was mortified by obferving how much his co¬ 
louring was weakened by the fuperior ludre of the angles 
beneath, painted by Bacici. He fell ill during the per¬ 
formance, and left it unfiniflied. He died in 1689, at the 
age of fifty-five. His principal works are in the churches 
of Rome, and at Florence, where he finiffied feveral ceil¬ 
ings begun by Cortona. His works are alio found in all 
the great cabinets and collections : feveral have been 
engraved. 
FER'RI (Paul), a learned protedant divine, born at 
Metz, in Lorrain, in 1591. He purfued his theological 
ftudies at Montaubari, with fuch ardour and fuccefs, that 
he was qualified for the office of the minidry when only 
nineteen years old, and was admitted to it at Metz, in 
1610. At that time he had printed a volume of poems, 
written in the moments of relaxation from his academic 
purfuits, the advertifement to which concluded with the 
words, Sat ludo nugifque datum, or “ Thus much for mirth 
' and trifles.” Fetri poffeffed admirable qualifications for 
an imprellive pulpit orator. Independently of the rich 
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furniture of his mind, he was eloquent in an uncommon 
degree ; and he alfo enjoyed the advantages of a dately 
prelence, a venerable countenance, and a graceful gef- 
ture. With thefe endowments lie long continued the 
mod popular preacher among the reformed in his pro¬ 
vince. He died in 1669, when he had nearly compleied 
his feventy-ninth year. He was the author of, 1. Scholaf 
tici Orthodoxi Specimen, 1616, 8vo. 2. Le Dernier Defefpoir 
de la Tradition contre I’Ecriture , &c. 1618. 3. Remarques 
d’Hijloiresfur le Dfcours de la Vie & de la Mort de St. IJvier, 
& le Reft de J'cs Miracles, nouvellcment publics par le Sicur de 
Ramberviller,CBc. publidied anonymoufly.in 1624. 4. Pauli 
Ferrii Vindicia pro Scho/ajlico Orlhodoxo, adverfus Lconardum 
Periaum, Jefuitam, &c. in quibus agitur, de Prtedejlinatione 
& annexis, de Gratia & Libero Arbitrio, de Caufa Peccati G? 
Jvfiificatione, 1630. 5. Catechifme General de la Reformation, 
1654, which called forth in reply the fird polemic piece 
publidied by the celebrated Boffuet, at that time arch¬ 
deacon of Metz. M. Ferri left behind him feveral ma- 
nuferipts, and, among others, Colleftions for a Hidory of 
Metz, in 3 or 4 vols. folio, which father Calmet, in his 
Hidory of Lorrain, fpeaks of as abounding in curious 
refearches. 
FER'RIA.GE,^/'. The fare paid at a ferry. 
FER'RIER (Jeremiah), a French protedant minider 
and profed’or of divinity at Nifmes in Languedoc, in the 
beginning of tire feventeenth century, who afterwards con¬ 
formed to the catholic religion, and was made counfellor 
of date. Soon after he had been received into the bofom 
of the catholic church, he fettled at Paris, and had feve¬ 
ral important truds committed to him. In 1614, he en- 
lided himfelf among the champions of his new commu¬ 
nion, and publidied at Paris a treatife entitled Del' Anti- 
chrif & de fes Marques, contre les Ennemis de P Eg life Catholique , 
4to. He was alfo the author of Catholique d' Etat, ou DiJ- 
cours des Alliances du Roy Tres-Cretien, contre les Calomnics des 
Ennemis de [on Etat, 1625, Svo. It was a work much va¬ 
lued in its time, and contained an anfwer to fome libels 
which the partizans of the king of Spain had publidied 
againd France, becaufe it had made an alliance with tiie 
protedants to tire prejudice of catholicilm. He died in 16 26. 
FER'RIER (John) a French jefuit, born at Rhodez, 
in the province of Rouergue, in 1619. He entered into 
the order in 1632, and by his merits recommended him¬ 
felf to the office of reftor of the college of Touloufe, the 
duties of which lie difeharged with reputation. He 
taught philofopliy four years, theology twelve years, and 
ethics twelve years, according to Moreri. That the je- 
fuits entertained a high opinion of his talents, appears 
from their appointment of him to fucceed father Annat, 
in the pod of confedor to Louis XIV. in 1670. He died 
four years afterwards at Paris. He was the author of 
Refponfo ad ObjeEliones Vincentianas, &c. 1608, Svo. He had 
dedgned to publilh a courfe of divinity, of which the 
fird volume only has appeared, which treats, De Deo uno , 
juxta Sanbli Augufini & Sanbli Thoma Principia. “His other 
works confid chiefly of controverfial pieces againd the 
tenets of Junfenius bidiop of Ypres, of wliofe followers 
he was one of the abled antagonids. 
FERRIE'RE (La), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tridf of Verneuil : five leagues north of Verneuil. 
FERRIE'RE (La), a town of France, in-the depart¬ 
ment of the Mayne and Loire, and chief place of a canton, 
in the didrift of Segre : one league north of Segre, and 
two and a half fouth-wed of Chateau.Gontier. 
FERRIE'RE AU DOYEN, a town of France, in the 
department "Of the Calvados, and chief place of a canton, 
in the didrift of Vire : four leagues north of Vire, and 
fix and a quarter fouth-wed of Caen. 
FERRIE'RE EN PARTENAY (La), a town of 
France, in the department of the Two Sevres, and chief 
place of a canton, .in the didrift of Partenay : two leagues 
and a half ead of Partenay, and three and a quarter fouth 
of Airvault. 
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