M A N 
M A N 
MAN'SO (Giambatifta), marquis of Villa, and lord of 
the cities of Bifaccia and Panca, an eminent patron of po- 
iite literature, was born at Naples in 1561, of a family 
originally from Amalfi. He bore arms in his youth, firft 
foAhe duke of Savoy, and then for his fovereign the king 
of Spain. After his return to Naples he devoted his time 
to letters, of which he was both a cultivator and a patron. 
He was welf acquainted with every kind of literature, and 
treated with the greateft courtefy all who excelled in it. 
He founded in Naples the academy Degli Oziofi, which 
held its firli aflemblies in his houfe. He was a friend of 
Taflo, who has infcribed his Dialogue on Friendfhip with 
the name of Manfo. He alfo patronifed the poet Marino ; 
and he honoured the memories of each of them with a 
biographical eulogy. It is a remarkable circumftance in 
literary hiftory,.that our immortal Milton was alfo known 
to him, and was treated by him on his vifit to Naples 
with great urbanity, and highly praifed in a Latin dif- 
tich, though then only a young man, and in the infancy 
of his fame. Milton repaid his civilities by addrefiing to 
him a Latin eclogue entitled Man/us, which his one ot his 
belt performances in that language. Manfo hiinfelf wrote 
Dialoghi dell’ Amore, Poefie Nomiche, and fome other 
pieces, chiefly of the light and amatory kind, which have 
not given him fo high a rank among authors as he has 
acquired among Mecsenafes. He was the principal pro¬ 
moter of the College of Nobles in Naples, to which, at his 
death in 164.5, he left all his property. Tirabofchi. Milton's 
Works. 
MANSO'RA, a town of Arabia, in the province of 
Yemen : eighteen miles ealt-fouth-eaft of Taiis. 
MANSO'RA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Fez, 
near the fea coaft, on the river Guir: fixty miles welt of 
Mequinez. 
MANSO'RA, or Mansou'ra, a town of Egypt, on the 
right bank of the ealtern branch of the Nile, built as a 
bulwark again ft the Chriltians at the time of the crufades. 
The Chriltians of Syria, fettled here, are the chief traders; 
and the principal articles are the fine rice growing round 
the lake, and fal ammoniac. Here are valt chicken-ovens. 
(See the article Egg, vol. vii. p. 285.) A canal is made 
from the Nile to the Lake Manzaleh. The Chriftian 
forces were twice defeated near this town ; in the firft the 
earl of Artois was drowned, and the earl of Salifbury, with 
tnoft of the troops, kiHed; in the fecond, Louis IX. king 
of France, was taken prifoner. Manfora Dr. Pocock fup- 
pofes to be the ancient Tanis, or Zoan of Scripture. It 
is twenty-four miles fouth-fouth-weft of Damietta, and 
fixty north of Cairo. Lat. 31. N. Ion. 31. 36. E. 
MANSOU'RAH, a river of Algiers, anciently called 
Sifaris, which runs into the fea eighteen miles eaft of Bou- 
jeiah. 
MANSOU'RAH, a town of Algiers, the walls of which 
are remaining, but neither houfes nor inhabitants ; twelve 
miles eaft of Boujeiah. 
MAN'STEIN (Chriftopher Herman de), a general, and 
writer of Memoirs, was born at Peterlburg, of German 
origin, 101711. He was a captain of grenadiers in the 
Ruffian fervice at Peterlburg, when, after the death of the 
emprefs Anne in 1740, he was commiffioned to arreft the 
regent Biren and his family. For this'fervice he was re¬ 
warded with the rank of colonel, and an eltate inTngria. 
Of both thefe he was deprived on the accellion of Eliza¬ 
beth to the throne of Ruffia ; and he foon afterwards en¬ 
tered into the Pruffian army as a volunteer. His courage 
and military talents caufed him in 1754 to be appointed 
a major-general of infantry. In that quality he ferved in 
a war commencing in 1756, and was killed by a mulket- 
fhot in the following year. Manftein drew up in French 
“ Memoirs of Ruffia, hiftorical, political, and military,” 
from the year 1727 to 1744, which were fent in manu- 
fcript by the earl-marlhal Keith to David Hume, tran- 
flated into Englilh, and publilhed in a quarto volume in 
1770. They were afterwards publilhed in French at 
Lyons, in 2 vols. 8vo. 1772, Thefe Memoirs, without any 
Vol. XIV. No. 975. 
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particular merit of compofition or depth of refieclloft, are 
valuable as a fair and authentic narrative of the important 
events which happened during that period, and are efpe- 
cially accurate in their accounts of military tranfablions. 
MANSUEFAC'TION, /. (from the Lat. manfuetus, 
tame, and facio, to make-T The aft of taming. Not ujid. 
MANSUE'FE, adj. Tame; gentle; not ferocious; not 
wild.—This holds not only in doineftic and manfuete birds ; 
for then it might be thought the effect of cicuratioa or 
inftitution, but alfo in the wild. Ray on the Creation. 
MAN'SUETUDE,/. Tamenefs ; gentlenefs : 
The angry lion did prefent his paw. 
Which by confent was given to manfuetude ; 
The fearful hare her ears, which by their law 
Humility did reach to fortitude. Herbert. 
MANS'UM, a river of Africa, on the Gold Coaft, 
which runs into the Atlantic fivfe miles weft of Fredericl- 
burg. 
MANSU'RA, a town of the Arabian Irak, on the Eu¬ 
phrates: 110 miles weft-north-weft of Baflora. 
MANSU'RA,/. in old records, the habitation of peo¬ 
ple in the country. 
MANSLTRCOT'TA, a town of Hindooftan, in the 
circar of Cicacole: eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of Gan- 
jam. 
MANSU'RIA, an ifland in the river Nile: twenty-five 
miles north of Syene. 
MANSU'RIA, a town of Arabia, in the province of 
Yemen : eight miles north of Beit el Fakih. 
MAN'SUS,/. in old records, a farm; a mefluage. 
MANS'WORTH, a town of Auftria: nine miles fouth- 
eaft of Vienna. 
MANT, a town of France, in the department of the 
Landes: twelve miles fouth of St. Sever, and eighteen 
north of Pau. 
MAN'TA, a town of France, in the department of the 
Stura, fituated as it were between the Maritime and Cot- 
tian Alps. The caftle or palace is fituated on an eminence 
near the town. It had anciently lords of its own, after 
whom it came under the marquis of Saluzzo, and finally 
under the dukedom of Savoy. The gardens are filled 
with trees of citrons, oranges, myrtles, and tender plants, 
which will not endure other parts of Piedmont. It is two 
miles fouth of Saluzzo. 
MAN'TA BA'Y, a bay bn the Pacific Ocean, on the 
coaft of Peru, about twenty miles fouth of the equator; 
formerly famous fora confiderablepearl-fiffiery, but which 
has been totally difcontinued for fome years. This bay 
has its name from the great numbers of large fid:, called 
mantas, the catching of which is the common employment 
of the inhabitants. 
MANTALIN'GA, a town of the ifland of Sibu, one 
of the Philippines, chiefly inhabited by natives, who are 
exempt from tribute, becaufe they were the firft to acknow¬ 
ledge the fovereignty of the Spaniards. 
MANTANNA'NE, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern In¬ 
dian Sea, near the north-weft coaft of the ifland of Borneo. 
Lat. 6. 38. N. Ion. 116. 27. E. 
MANTA'RO, a river of Peru, fo called from the pro¬ 
vince it pervades, joins the Maranon at 12 0 6', and ferves 
to propel the chief river towards the north-eaft; thecourfe 
having formerly been towards the north-eaft. See Ma¬ 
ranon. 
MANTE'A, /. in old records, a mantle; a cloak; a 
long robe. 
MANTEAU',/ [French.] A lady’s gown. See Man* 
TUA. 
MANTECU',/ A fort of preparation of butter ufed 
by the Turks when they travel with their cancans. This 
is firft boiled over the fire, and then falted and kept in 
veflels made of tough leather, worked round a wooden 
frame, of the fame lhape with the veflels in which they 
bring their balfa'm from Mecca. 
MANTEG'NA (Andrea), an eminent painter and en- 
4 H graver. 
