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MONTEMAYO'R (George cle), a Portuguefe writer 
of fome celebrity, was born at Montemor, of obfcure pa¬ 
rentage, or he would not have thus taken his name from 
his birth-place. Having a mufical talent, he found pa¬ 
tronage at the Spanifh court, and vifited Italy and Flan¬ 
ders in the fuite of Philip II. then prince of Spain. In 
1561 he perifhed by a violent death in Piedmont. He 
publilhed a cancionero including his own poems, and a 
tranflation of Anfias March. But the work which ob¬ 
tained for him his great and tranfient celebrity is his 
Diana, a paftoral romance. The romances of chivalry 
were made up of battles without end ; the new fpecies 
confifts wholly of love ; they are as inartificial as unnatu¬ 
ral, and infinitely more tirelome. The fable of the Diana 
is the moft meagre that can be conceived. Diana, in the 
abfence of her lover Sireno, marries an old man. Sireno 
returns in a fuitable ftate of milery, and affociates with 
Syloano, another Ihepherd, who alfo loved Diana, and, 
though his love had never been returned, is as miferable 
as himfelf. They are joined by a lhepherdefs and a 
nymph, who are both unfortunate in love: the latter 
fhoots admirably well with a bow, killing, at different 
times, three giants and two knights. The good enchant- 
rels Felicia invites this difconfolate party to come to her 
for help, and on the way they find another love-lorn 
fliepherdefs to be of the party. Felicia has a wonderful 
water, which is a fpecific for the cure of love ; with this 
Ihe effaces the paffion of all thofe whole cafe is hopelefs, 
and the reft are happily married. Sireno is left a light¬ 
hearted bachelor; and Diana, who does not appear till 
the latter end of the volume, is defcribed as little pleafed 
at the jealoufy of her hufband, and the lofs of both her 
lovers. A fecond part is promifed, which was to contain 
the hiftory of what happened to Sireno, and of the loves 
of two perfons who have juft made their appearance. 
Cervantes is merciful to this book; he condemns only 
the machinery and the longer poems. Some of the poems 
however are of great merit; one in particular, which 
Sireno addreffes to a lock of Diana’s hair, has not often 
been furpaffed in its kind. And the whole has probably 
fome charm of language imperceptible to a foreign reader, 
or its reputation could never have been fo high. A 
Portuguefe admirer of this romance once offered an 
eflate worth two thoufand crufades as a prize for any 
perfon who fhould write a better. Montemayor had 
talked over his plan for the fecond part with his friend 
Alonfo Perez, a phyfician of Salamanca 5 his defign was 
to make Sireno marry Diana after the death of her huf¬ 
band; but the ingenious do&or obferved, that this would 
be Ihutting the door upon himfelf, and finilhing the ftory 
too loon; whereas, if he were to reprefent Diana as fued 
by many lovers at the time when Sireno renewed his love, 
there would remain agreeable matter for a third part. 
This advice, which Montemayor did not live to follow, 
he himfelf put in praftice; but his fecond part is deemed 
far inferior to the original. The fum of the ftory is, that 
the old iiulband dies, and Felicia then gives Sireno another 
glafs of water to make him in love again. The romance 
was finally completed with great fuccefs by Gafpar Gil 
Polo, whofe Diana Enumorada was one of the Spanifh 
books printed in England about feventy years ago. 
The Diana has been tranllated into many languages. 
The French tranflator mentions it as a current opinion 
in Spain, that the ftory related to the private hiftory of 
the duke of Alva, in whofe fervice the author at one 
time was. Such an opinion is not likely to prevail any 
where elfe. It will not be eafy to perfuade any perfon 
acquainted with hiftory, that the duke of Alva has ever 
been reprefented as a Ihepherd in love ! R. S. in Gen. 
Biop;. 
MONTENACTI', a town of Swiflerland, in the canton 
of Friburg : two miles eaft of Payerne. 
MONTENAY', a town of France, in the department 
of the Mayenne : ten miles weft of Mayenne. 
MONTEN'DRE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Charente. Here is a mineral lpring : feven 
miles north-weft of Montiieu, and eighteen fouth of 
Pons. 
MONTENE'RO, a town of France, in the department 
of the Stura : five miles north-north-eaft of Coni. 
MONTENOISO'N, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Nyevre : fifteen miles fouth of Clamecy, and 
fixteen fouth of La Charite. 
MONTEREAU', a town of France, in the department 
of the Seine and Marne, at the conflux of the Seine and 
Yonne. The principal commerce is in corn, cheefe, and 
cloth. This town is remarkable in hiftory for the death 
of John duke of Burgundy, who was killed on the 10th 
of September, 1419, in the prefence of the dauphin, after¬ 
wards Charles VII. king of France. Philip duke of Bur¬ 
gundy, to avenge the death of his father, introduced the 
Englifli into France, which coft that country more blood 
than any war in which it had been-engaged. In 1420, 
Henry V. took it by afiault, and it continued in pofieflion 
of the Englifli till 1437. See the article France, vol.vii. 
p. 687, 8. It is twelve miles north-eaft of Nemours,-and 
fifteen miles fouth-eaft of Melun. 
MONTEREU'IL (Bernardin de), a learned French 
Jefiiit, was born at Paris in the year 1596. After having 
gone through his courfe of academic ftudies, he filled the 
chair of philofophy for four years, and afterwards that 
of moral theology during an equal term, with no little 
reputation. He was alfo greatly admired as a preacher, and 
much reforted to in the capacity of director of confciences. 
He died at Paris in 1646, when about fifty years of age. 
He was the author of, 1. A Life of Jefus Chrift, 1637, 
a vols. 4to. afterwards enlarged into 4 vols. and which 
underwent numerous impreflions. 2. A Hiftory of the 
early State of the Church, comprifing the A6ts of the 
Apoftles, 1640,12010. 3. The laft Conflicts of the Church, 
as explained in the Apocalypfe, 1649, 4to. and umo, 
Setvelli Bibl. Script. Soc. Jej'u. 
MONTEREY', a town of Spain, in Galicia: eighteen 
miles fouth-eaft of Orenfe. 
MONTEREY', or Monterry, aSpanifli fettlement, or 
prefidio, on the eaft of California, founded, according to 
La Peroufe, on the third of June, 1770, which, by exaft 
Spanilh obfervations in 1791, is in lat. 36. 35. 45. N. and 
Ion. 115. 47. 30. W. of Cadiz. With the Spaniards, pre¬ 
fidio is a general name for all forts, both in Africa and 
America, placed in the middle of a country of infidels; and 
implying, that there are no other inhabitants befides the 
garrilon which refides within the citadel. The principal 
Spanilh garrifon is that of Monterey, and the lieutenant- 
governor, who refides at Monterey, is governor of both 
the Californias. The foil of the adjacent diftridt is to¬ 
lerably fertile and productive; for La Peroufe obferved 
maize, barley, and peafe; and, by his account, the climate 
is mild, though foggy. But, according to the Spanilh. 
writers, whofe account is more likely to be juft than that 
of Peroufe, who vifited this coaft at a particular feafon, 
the climate feems to be divided between exceflive cold 
and torrents of rain, while water-fpouts and hurricanes 
are not unfrequent, and thick fogs fierve to diverfify thefe 
viciflitudes. The foil feems alfo to difplay a great variety 
of barrennefs. The chief trade is derived from the fur 
of foxes and other animals. From the account of the ftate 
of California in 1794, given by Eftalla, we learn, that the 
miflionaries have planted olives, figs, pomegranates, vines, 
and peaches, all of which yield an abundant produce. 
The moft common plant is the mezeale, which covers the 
mountains and valleys, and, like the maguey of the Ibuth, 
fupplies the lavages with food, drink, and clothing. 
Although the land be generally barren, filh is abundant, 
and fome of the Ihells are exquifitely beautiful. From 
Monterey, and even from the Red River, to Mendocino, 
the country is covered with immenle forefts of pines and 
other 
