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tint, an eminent Italian poet, divine, and polite writer, 
was born of a noble family at Florence in the rjth cen¬ 
tury, and furnamed Lippus , on account of a defluxion 
from his eyes, which, at an early age, had nearly deprived 
him of his fight. Notwithftanding this misfortune, he 
acquired great eminence in various kinds of literature. 
Among other excellencies for which he was diftinguilhed, 
he was Angularly ready in his poetic compofitions ; and 
this talent he poflefled in fo eminent a degree, that he is 
faid to have put into very elegant verfe, without preme¬ 
ditation, all the topics of Pliny’s thirty-feven books of 
Natural Hidory. Corvinus king of Hungary, hearing of 
his fame, invited him to his court; and employed him, 
for feveral years, in teaching rhetoric at Buda and Gran. 
After the death of that king, in 1490, he returned to 
Florence, and affumed the habit of the friars of St. Au- 
gultin. In this new profeflion, he applied afliduoufly to 
the exercife of his minjdry, and preached, with great ap- 
plaufe, to crowded auditories in feveral parts of Italy. 
After refiding for fome time at Naples, where he had for 
his fcholar Giammaria del Monte, afterwards pope Julius 
III. he fettled'at Rome, and died there of the plague in 
1498. The moll valuable of his numerous works were 
his 3 books De Ratione Scribcndi, containing the precepts 
of good writing, and written with Angular learning and 
elegance; and two books, entitled Ckrifliana Paradoxa ; 
and De Humana Vita Conditioner el tollenda Corporum JEgri- 
tudine. Thefe, with fome others, were printed at Bafil in 
1498. He alfo publilhed, in heroic verfe, the hiflories of 
the O. and N. T. a commentary on St. Paul’s Epiftles, a 
treatife De Lege, fome orations, and fome Latin and Ita¬ 
lian poems; and left feveral treatifes in manufcript, on 
political and hiftorical fubjeCts. Tirabofchi. 
LIPRAZ'ZO, a town of Naples, in Capitanata: feven- 
teen miles wed-louth-weft of Manfredonia. 
LIPRE'YS, a river of North America, in the date of 
Georgia, which runs into the Toinbigh in lat. 32. 50. N. 
Ion. 87. 51. W. 
LIPS, a town andcaftleof Hungary: fix miles north of 
Neufol. 
LIP'SIUS (Julius), a very eminent philologift and cri¬ 
tic, was born in 1547 at Ifcli, a village near Bruffels, 
where his father, one of the principal inhabitants of that 
city, had a country-houfe. He gave very early difplays 
of his difpofition for literature, which was cultivated to 
advantage at the Jefuits’ fchool in Cologne, whither he 
was fent at the age of twelve. Well furnilhed with claffi- 
cal learning, he went to the univerfity of Louvain, where 
he engaged in the ftudy of the civil law. Hill however 
retaining a predilection for the belles lettres. He pub¬ 
lilhed the firft fruits of his ftudies in this lad department 
underthe title of Variorum LeElionum LibriTres, dedicated to 
cardinal Granvelle, who patronized him, and received him 
into his houfeat Rome, in 1567,511 quality of Latin fecre- 
tary. Lipfuis employed the opportunity this fituation af¬ 
forded him in collating manufcripts in the Vatican and other 
libraries, infpeCiing the antiquities of Rome, and cultivat- 
ing 3 n acquaintance with the eminent fcholars then refiding 
in that metropolis. Wilhing to return to his native coun¬ 
try, he proceeded through Germany with that intention. 
The Low Countries, however, were now the feat of war; 
and he learned that his own patrimony was laid wade by 
the troops. He therefore, in 1572, accepted the profel- 
forlhip of hidory at Jena, though a Lutheran univerfity ; 
nor does he feem to have fcrupled, during the greateli 
part of his life, complying with the edablilhed religion of 
the country in which he refided. Quitting Jena in 1574, 
he went to Cologne, where he married a widow 1 , by whom 
he never had any children. At that city he wrote his 
Antiqua LeEliones , confiding chiefly of emendations of Plau¬ 
tus; and began his notes upon Tacitus. After refiding 
for a time at his native feat of Ifch, lie was driven thence 
by the civil wars, and took Ihelter at Louvain, where, in 
1576, he was created a doctor of laws, and gave public 
lectures on the laws of the decemvirs. The didurbances 
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of the time induced him to make a further retreat, and he 
accepted the chair of hidory at Leyden, and thus again 
changed his external religion from Roman-catholic toCal- 
vinid. The thirteen years which he fpent at this univerfity 
were the prime of his life, and were didinguilhed by the 
publication of thofe works by which he acquired mod re¬ 
putation. Thefe were upon various topics, critical, hido- 
rical, and philofophical, written with much vigour of dyle 
and depth of erudition. His commentaries upon Tacitus 
were particularly applauded by the learned. Two works 
which he wrote, however, brought a ferious imputation upon 
his principles, and have left an indelible ftain on his me¬ 
mory. Thefe were, his Politicorum Librivi. and his treatife 
De una Religione. In them he maintains openly the maxint 
that no date ought to permit a plurality of religions, but 
ought to exercile the utmod feverity againd all who fepa- 
rate from the edablilhed church. This doCtrine could not 
but appear highly offenfive in a country which had lately 
undergone the greateli calamities in throwing off the yoke 
of a perfecuting church, and had adopted tolerant prin¬ 
ciples. He was warmly attacked in controverfy ; and, al¬ 
though the univerfity, proud of poffeffing fo eminent a 
fcholar, gave him more countenance than might have been 
expeCted, yet he thought he faw a dorm ariling, and pri¬ 
vately withdrew to Flanders. There he made an abjura¬ 
tion of the protedant religion, and returned to the church 
in which he had been originally educated, and to which 
he affirmed he had always fecretly adhered. He fettled 
again at Louvain, where he taught the belles lettres 
with undiminilhed reputation. His intolerant maxims 
were not likely to injure him in the opinion of papills; 
and he received liberal propofals from various fovereigns 
and other perfons of diftinttion to refide under their pro¬ 
tection. He, however, chofe to continue at Louvain, 
where he wrote many other works of different degrees of 
merit. It is admitted that in his later writings his dyle 
is much deteriorated by the habit or affedation of a fen- 
tentious brevity, which he contracted from the imitation 
of Tacitus, and particularly of Seneca, who was his fa¬ 
vourite philofopher. Though he did not live to an ad¬ 
vanced age, he gave marks of an enfeebled judgment; and 
efpecially afforded his enemies a triumph, by the weak lu- 
perftition he difplayed in his two pieces entitled, Diva Virgo 
Hallenjis, and Diva Sichemienjis, five Afpricollis. Thefe were 
relations of the wonders and miracles performed at the 
ffirines of two images of the Virgin Mary, in which the 
learned devotee adopted every puerile and abfurd tale that 
he found current among the vulgar. If, as is fuppofed, 
the Jefuits put him upon writing thefe legends in order 
to give proof of the fincerity of his religious profeflion, 
they confulted very ill the reputation both of Liplius and 
his religion. That he had really become a weak bigot, 
appeared further from his dedicating a filver pen to the 
Virgin of Hall in a copy of verfes filled with his own 
praifes, and in his bequefl to her of his furred gown. 
Lipfius died at Louvain in 1606, in his fifty-ninth year. 
His works have been collected in fix volumes folio. 
LIPSK, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of No- 
vogrodek : twenty-eight miles wed-fouth-welt of Sluck. 
LIPSK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Sando- 
mirz: thirty miles north of Sandomirz. 
LIP'SO, an illand in the Grecian Archipelago, about 
eight miles in circumference: fix miles fouth-louth-eall 
of Patmos. Lat. 37. 24. N. Ion. 26. 23. E. 
LIP'STADT. See Lippe. 
LIPTO'TES, f. in rhetoric, a figure, wherein, by de¬ 
nying the contrary of what we intend, more is fignified 
than we would feem to exprefs; as in the following verfe 
of Virgil: “ Quid prodefl, quod me ipfe animo non fper- 
nis, Amynta.” 
LIPU'DA, a river of Naples, which runs into the fea 
five miles fo’uth of Cape Alice. 
LIPYR'IAjy. [Greek.] A kind of continual fev>.r. 
LIQ'UABLE, adj. [from liquo, Lat,] Such as may be 
melted. 
LIQUA'MEN; 
