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FONTANAMO'RA, a town of Piedmont, in the 
duchy of Aorta : eighteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Aorta. 
FONTANAROS'SA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom 
of Naples, and province of Principato Ultra: fourteen 
miles north-weft of Conza. 
. FON'TANEL, f Ifontanelle, Fr.] An iffue ; a dif- 
charge opened in the body.—A perfon plethoric, fubjeCt 
to hot defluxions, was advifed to a fontanel in her arm. 
Wifeman. 
FONTANELA'TA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of 
Parma : ten miles north-weft of Parma. 
FONTANE'SIA, f. [So named by Billardiere in 
honour of M. Des Fontaines, of the royal academy of 
fciences at Paris.] In botany, a genus of the clads dian- 
dtia, order monogynia,natural orderof (epiariae,(jafminese, 
JuJj. ) The generic characters are—Calyx : four-parted, 
inferior, very fmall, permanent, blunt at the e$ds.— 
Corolla : two petalled ; petals two-parted, parts ovate, 
obtufe, concave.—Stamina : filaments two, long, filiform, 
jnferted into the claws of the corolla; antherae oblong, 
two'-grooved.—Piftillum : germovate; ftyle comprefled, 
fhorter than the ftamens ; ftigmas two, inflex-hooked.— 
Pericarpium : capfule, not opening, fubovate, einargi- 
nate, comprefled membranaceous, in the centre two- 
celled, (very rarely three-celled, three-winged.) Seeds: 
folitary, oblong-columnar.— EJfential Character. Calyx : 
four-parted, inferior ; petals two, two-parted ; cap- 
fula, membranaceous, not opening, two-celled, cells one- 
feeded. 
Fontanefia phillyreoides, a fingle fpesies : leaves ovate- 
©blong, fharp at both ends, flowers in racemes. Stem 
frutefeent, ereCt, twelve feet high ; branches oppofite, 
ereCt, the younger ones quadrangular ; leaves evergreen, 
oppofite, veined underneath ; the lower ones ovate : pe¬ 
tioles fhort, knee-jointed ; flowers axillary, yellow. The 
corolla may be confidered as one-petalled and four-parted, 
with two of the parts more deeply cut, for the filaments 
are inferted into the corolla. It is allied therefore to 
Fraxinus and Chionantluis : but it differs from the firft 
in having a two celled fruit ; from the fecond in the fruit 
being a capfule, not a drupe. Native of Syria, between 
Laodicea and mount Caflius. 
FONTANET'TO, a town of Italy, in the principality 
of Piedmont: feven miles eaft of Crefcentino, and four 
weft of Trino. 
FONTAN'GE,/. [from the name of the firft wearer.] 
A knot of ribbands on the top of the head-drefs. Out of 
life. —Thofe old-fafhionedybttirtKn-er rofe an ell above the 
head : they were pointed like fleeples, and had long 
loofe pieces of crape, which were fringed, and hung 
down their backs. Addifon. 
FONTAN'GES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Carnal : ten miles north-weft of Murat. 
FONTANI'NI (Giufto), a learned Italian, born in 
1666 at San Daniello, in the duchy of Friuli. He ftudied 
at the Jefuit’s college at Gorigia ; and devoting himfelf 
to the ecclefiaftical profeflion, was ordained prieft at 
Venice in 1690. He refided a confiderable time in that 
city, and afterwards at Padua, induftrioufly improving 
himfelf in literature of various kinds, and forming con¬ 
nections with learned men. In 1697 he was invited to 
Rome as librarian to cardinal Impeiiali. He was much 
efteemed hy pope Clement XI. who made him his cham¬ 
berlain of honour, and gave him a hundfome penfion and 
an abbacy. He died, much regretted, in 1736, in his 
feventieth year. Of the numerous works of Fontanini, 
the following are beft known:— Dell'' eloqucnza Italiana ; 
this is a difeourfe on Italian eloquence, with a catalogue 
of the beft books in that language ; feveral editions of it 
were made in the author’s life, but the beft is that of 
Venice, fince his death, in two volumes quarto, with 
notes and corrections by Apoftolo Zeno. A Collection 
of Bulls of Canonifation, from Pope John XV. to Bene¬ 
dict XIII. 1729, folio, in Latin. A Literary Hiftory of 
Aquileia, 1742, 4to. in Latin ; a polliiumous publication, 
replete with curious erudition.. 
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FONTARA'BIA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Guipufcoa, on the frontiers of France, from which it is 
feparated only by the river Bidaflba, which forms a har¬ 
bour at its mouth ; built in the form of an amphitheatre, 
at the foot of the Pyrennees; it opened its gates to a de¬ 
tachment of the French republican troops, on the ift of 
Auguft, 1794: fifteen miles fonth-fouth-eaft of Bayonne, 
and thirty-five fouth of Pamplona. Lat. 43. 23. N. Ion. 
14. 48. E. Peak of Teneriffe. 
FON'TE (Straits de), fituated on the north-weft coaft 
of North America. There is a large ifland in the middle 
of the entrance, which is thought to be the fame that De 
Fonte, a Spanifh admiral, difeovered in 1640, whofe ac¬ 
count of it has been long treated as fabulous. Lat. 34. 
35. N. Ion. 9. 55. W. 
FONTEL'LO, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira : one league and a half nor^h-eaft of Lamego. 
FONTENAY' (Peter-Claude), a French Jefuit, born 
at Paris in 1683, and entered on his noviciate in the order 
when he was fifteen years of age. After having com¬ 
pleted his claffical education, he went through a courfeof 
theology, and was feleCted by his fuperiors as a proper 
perfon to be well grounded in ecclefiaftical knowledge and 
antiquities. To thefe departments he applied with be¬ 
coming diligence, and was employed for fome time to fur- 
nifti the extracts and remarks on books relating to religion 
and ecclefiaftical hiftory in the Journal de Trevoux. His 
attention to ecclefiaftical learning, however,did not prevent 
him from devoting a part of his tittle to the cultivation 
of the belles-lettres, which afforded the favourite employ¬ 
ment of his leifure hours. The only fruits of thefe 
lighter ftudies which he gave to the world, were feveral 
fmall poems publifhed in the collections of his day. 
Father Fontenav was appointed reCtor of the Jefuit’s 
college at Orleans, where he continued until the death of 
father Longueval in 1735, when he was recalled to Paris, 
and was entrufted with the continuation of that author’s 
Hiftory of the Gallican Church, of which he bad pub- 
liftied eight volumes in quarto. Fontenay’s ftate of 
health, however, which was naturally delicate, was much 
affeCted by the clofe attention which he beftowed upon 
this work; and before he had finiftied the eleventh vo¬ 
lume, he was incapacitated by a paralytic attack, from any 
farther literary exertions. He furvjved this ftroke for 
more than twelve months, but in a ftate of great languor, 
until his releafe in 1742, at the college of La Fleclie, when 
in the fifty-fixth year of his age. 
FONTENAY' (John Baptift Blain de), a celebrated 
painter of fruit and flowers, born at Caen in 1654. Louis 
XIV. gave him a penfion, and an apartment in the gal¬ 
leries of the Louvre ; and he was nominated counfellorof 
the Academy of Painting. His pieces have all the frefti- 
nefs and beauty of nature ; the dew appears to trickle 
down with all the luftreand tranfparency of the diamond, 
while the infeCts, fo judicioufly introduced, feem per¬ 
fectly alive and animated. This ingenious artift died at 
Paris, in 1715. 
FONTENAY', a town of France, in the department 
of the Seine and Marne : one league and a half north- 
weft of Rofoy, and feven and a half fouth-eaft of Paris. 
FONTENAY' LE COMTE, a town of France, and 
capital of the department of La Vendee ; containing 
about 7000 fouls ; fituated in a fertile valley, on the 
Vendee: the principal commerce of the.inhabitants is in 
cloth, woollen fluffs, and cattle, of which they fell a great 
number at their three annual fairs : three ports and a half 
north-eaft of Niort, thirteen fouth-fouth-eaft of Nantes, 
and fifty-fix and a quarter fourh-fouth-weft: of Paris. 
Lat. 46. 30. N. Ion. 16. 15. E. Ferro. 
FONTENAY' ST. PERE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Seine and Oife : two leagues and a 
half fouth of Magny. 
FONTENEL'LE (Bernard le Bovier de), an efteemed 
French writer, born at Rouen, in 1657. His father w'as 
an advocate ; his mother filler of the great Corneille. 
He received his education at the Jefuit’s college in Rouen ; 
and 
