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By Afiir/) Afliinj was meant arkitc providence ; in other 
words, divine wijdom, by vvhiclr the world was preferved. 
In tliefe myfteries, after the people had for a long time 
bewailed the lofs of a particular perfon, he was at lad 
flippofed to be redored to life. Upon tliis the pried 
tiled to addrefs the people in thefe memorable terms : 
Comfort yourfelves, all ye who have been partakers 
of the my dories of tlie deity thus preferved : for we diall 
now enjoy fome refpite from our labours.’’ To thefe 
were added the following remarkable words: “ I liave 
efcaped a fad calamity; and my lot is greatly mended.” 
At fuch times tliere feems to have been an invocation 
made by the people to the Dove, lonah ; whicli was 
probably introduced to their view ; lu Maxaipa, 
Aay.'Trxor.ipofoq ; “ Hail to the dove, the redorer of light.” 
GKN'L ILES'CHI (Horatio), an Italian painter, born 
at Pifa in 1563. After having made himl'elf famous at 
Florence, Rome, Genoa, and other parts of Italy, he re¬ 
moved to Savoy ; from whence he went to France, and 
upon the invitation of Charles I. came over to England. 
He was well received by that king, who employed him 
in his palace at Greenwich, and other public places. 
The mod remarkable of his performances in England, 
were the ceilings of Greenwich and York-houfe. He 
painted alfo a Madona, a Magdalen, and Lot with his 
two daughters, for king Charles ; which he performed 
admirably well. His mod edeemed piece abroad was 
the portico of cardinal Bentivoglio’s palace at Rome. 
He was much in favour with the duke of Buckingham, 
and many others of the nobility. After twelve years conti¬ 
nuance in England, lie died here at 84 years of age, and 
was buried in the queen’s chapel at Soinerfet-houfe. 
His portrait is among the heads of Vandyke, he having 
been drawn by that great mader.—He left behind him 
a daughter, Artemijia Gentilefchi, wdio was but little infe¬ 
rior to her father in hidory-painting, and excelled him in 
portraits. 
GEN'TILESSE,/. [French.] Complaifance : civi¬ 
lity. Not vfed. 
She with her wedding-cloaths undredes 
Her complaifance and gcntikjfes. Hndibras. 
GEN'TILI (Alberico), an eminent jurid, born in 
1550, at Cadel St. Gene/io in the marche of Ancona, 
where his father Matteo praftifed as a pliydcian. He 
graduated in law at the univerfity of Perugia, and was 
praetor or judge at Afeoli, w’hen liis father, becoming a 
convert to the reformed religion, refolved to leave Italy, 
and take with him his elded fon Alberico, and his 
younge.d, Scipio. Alberico came to England, and in 
1582 obtained the chair of jurifprudence in the univer- 
lity of Oxford, wliich he held with reputation till his 
death, in 160S. He was a man of vad and comprehen- 
five erudition, and publillied various v/orks, mod of them 
in liis own profeHion. From his Si.x Dialogues on the 
Interpreters of Law^, dedicated to his patron the earl 
of Leiceder, it might be fuppofed that he was tlie idola¬ 
ter of the jurids of the preceding ages, and their barba- 
rifm, which he defends againd the politer and more li¬ 
beral method of Alciatus, but in a dyle and manner ob- 
viouily imitating that of Alciatus himl'elf; fo thatl'ome 
Iiave I’uppofed that the dialogues were meant as an iron¬ 
ical fatire upon the ignorance and vulgarity of the jurills 
of his time. He was the fird who carried his refearches 
into the law of nature and of nations ; and his tliree 
books De Jure Belli ure much praifed by Grotius, who 
confefl’es. his obligations to them in the larger work 
v.'hith he compofed o.n the fame fubjedt. His political 
dodtrines were well fuited to the reigns of Elizabeth and 
James, as appears from his difpulation, De ViCivium in 
Regem J'emper injujla, and other pieces. He wrote three 
books De Legationibus, and feveral tradls relative to an¬ 
tiquities. He alfo cultivated polite literature ; ofwliicli 
[ie gave an elFay in his Ledliones Virgiliana. 
GEN'TILI (Scipio), brother of the preteding, born 
G E N> 33.4 
in t563/a'td fent to dudy at Tubingen. He there greatly 
didinguiflicd himfclf in Latin poetry, and allb purfued 
the dudy of Greek and of jurifprudence, which he after- 
W'ards cultivated with increafing fuccefs at the univer- 
fities of Wittemberg and Leyden. He received thp de¬ 
gree of dodlor at Bafil in 1589, and then went to Heidel¬ 
berg as a public expounder of Law. After a (hort abode 
in that city, he removed to Altdorf, vrhere he was fird 
colleague to Donellus in theprofedon'nip, and afteinvards 
principal profeffor of law. He was made a counfellor 
to the city of Nuremberg; and fuch was his reputation 
that he w'as invited to feveral univerfities, and even is 
faid to have received liberal offers from pope Clement 
VIII. to fettle at Bologna, all which he declined. He 
died at Altdorf in 1616. He wrote feveral works, of 
wliich the principal are, i. De Jure publico Populi Romanis'-, 
2 . De Conjurationibus ; Z . De Donationibus inter Virum (3 
Uxorem 4. De Bonis maternis & jeeundis Niiptiis 5. In. 
Apulci Apologiam Comment-, 6. De JuriJdiElione-, 7. De Erro- 
ribus Tejlamentorum8 . Comment in Pauli Epijl. ad Philemo- 
nem. He alfo wrote feveral elegant Latin poems, among 
which were Paraphrafes of v^arious Pfalms, and a Trani- 
lation of the two fird cantos of Taffo’s Jerufalem. All 
his works have been lately reprinted at Naples, ii\ 
8 vols. 4to. 
GEN'TILISM, yi \_gentilifme, Fr. from grwtt/f. ] Hea- 
thenifm ; paganifm.—If invocation of faints had been 
produced in the apodolical times, it would have looked 
like tlie inrroducing olgeiitil.ifm again. Slillingfleet. 
GENTILI'TIOUS, Igcntilitius, Lat.j Endemial; 
peculiar to a nation.—That an unlavory odour is gentili- 
tious, or national, unto the Jews, reafon or fenfe will not 
induce. Brozon. —FIcreditary ; entailed on a family.— 
The common caufe of this didemper is a particular and 
perhaps a gentilitious difpofition of body. Arhutknot. 
GENTIL'ITY, y. \_gentilite, Fr. h'om getitil, I'c.get:- 
tf/u, Lat.] Good extraction ; dignity of birth. Elegance 
of behaviour ; gracefulnefs of mien ; nicety of tade. 
Gentry ; the clafs of perfons well born.—Gavelkind 
mud needs, in the end, make a -poor gentility. Davies .— 
Paganifm ; heatlienifm.—-'When people began to efpy 
the falfhood of oracles, whereupon all gentility was built, 
their hearts were utterly averted from it. Hooker. 
GEN'TILLET (Valentine), a learned French writer 
in defence of the protedant caufe, a native of Vienne in 
Dauphine, who riourifhed in the fixteenth century; but 
we are ignorant when he was born, or died. He was .1 
civilian by profeliion, and according to fome writers, 
was at tirft an advocate in the parliament of Touloufe, 
and afterwards fyndic of the republic of Geneva. He 
didinguifned himl'elf by his writings, whiclt rendered 
him aj'avouriie author with the proteliant.s, for the zeal 
which tl'.ey difplayed againd popery, and the learning 
and abilities witli which they m.iintained the pi'inciplrs 
of the reformation. By the edicts that wefe juiblifhed 
in France againd thofe of the reformed religion, Itc was 
driven into exile. In 1578 i>e publiliicd An Apology 
for tlie Protedants,which palled through fcvcral editions, 
and appeared ten years afterwards in an enlarged form, 
in French, and alfo in Latin, under the title vJApologij, 
pro Chrijlianis Gallis Religionis Evangelkce fen Refonmatie, qua. 
.dneetur Injus Religionis Fundamenta in Sacr<i Scriplura jaih^ 
eJJ'e, &c. Svo. In 1586 he publilhcd a work entitled 
Le Bureau du Concile de Trente, &c. and in tlie farno year a 
Latin edition of the lame, entitled Keamen Concilii Triden~ 
'tini, &CC. of wliich tltere afterwards appe.ued I'evwrttl 
imprellions at difi'erent places. He was ttll'o tlie author 
of the .Anti-Maciiiavel, or Difcourl'es on the Means of 
well governing a Kingdom, 1547, 121110. and tfe Aiiii- 
Socinus, 1612, 410. 
GFIN'i’lLL'V, a town of France, in the departnient of 
Paris ; the refidence of the kings of France ot tlie fird 
and iecend race : throe quarters of a league iuuth of 
Paris. 
GEK'TIOUX, a town of France, in tlie depaitmcnt 
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