MAR 
MARI'A (St.)) a town of Tranfilvnnia: twelve miles 
fouth-eaft of Munyads.—A town of Naples, in Lavora : 
thirty-feven miles weft of Naples.—A town of Iftria: four 
miles north of Monfalcone.—A town, with a convent, of 
Hungary : fix miles north of Rofenburg.—One of the 
Tremiti iflands, now called St. Nicolo.—A fea-port in the 
Gulf of Spezza : four miles fouth of Spezza. Lat. 44.. 6. 
N. Ion. 9. 42. E.—A town of Brafil, in the government of 
Maranhao : eight miles north-eaft of St. Felipe.-—A town 
of Mexico, in the province of Mechoacan ; thirty-two 
miles fout>h of St. Luis de Potofi.—A town on the weft 
coaft of the ifland of Mindanao. Lat. 7. 33. N. Ion. 122. 
18. E.—A fmall ifland in the Grecian Archipelago, near 
the north-eaft coaft of Paros.—A town of New Mexico : 
Forty miles fouth of Santa Fe.—A town of New Navarre : 
2to miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Cafa Grande. 
MARI'A della ALIZ'ZA, a town of Naples, in the 
province of Otranto: four miles eaft of Gallipoli. 
MARI'A del AL'TO, a town of Naples, in Otranto: 
two miles fouth-fouth-weft of Nardo. 
MARI'A APOLSA'NO (St.), a town of Naples, in 
Capitanata : three miles fouth of Monte St. Angelo. 
MARI'A BA'Y, a bay on the north coaft of Tonga- 
taboo : feven miles weft of Obfervatory Point. 
MARI'A di CAMARA'NA (St.), a town of Sicily, 
in the valley of Noto, at the mouth of a river on the fouth 
coaft ; the remains of a city called “ Camarana 3” twenty- 
eight miles fouth-eaft of Alicete. 
MARI'A CREE'K, a river of the weftern territory of 
America, which runs into the Wabafh in lat. 38.48. N. 
Ion. 88. W. 
MARI'A di DO'TOLI (St.), a town of Naples, in 
Otranto: fifteen miles fouth-eaft of Motera. 
MARI'A la GART'A (St.), a fmall ifland in the 
north Pacific Ocean. Lat. 27. 50. N. Ion. 149. W. 
MARI'A del GRA'CIA, a town of Etruria : thirty- 
one miles eaft of Florence. 
MARI'A della GRAT'ICE, a town of Naples, in 
Calabria Citra : fix miles north of Scalea. 
MARI'A de IGUA'ZU (St.), a town of Paraguay: 
two hundred miles eaft of Aflumption. 
MARI'A’s I'SLANDS, a clufter of fmall iflands near 
the fouth part of New Holland, a little to the north-eaft 
of Tafman’s Head. Lat. 43.15. S. Ion. 147. 46. to 148. 
10. E. 
MARI'A dell’ ISO'LA, a town of Naples, in the 
province of Bari: three miles north of Converfano. 
MARI'A de ISQUAN'DE (St.), a town of South Ame¬ 
rica, in Popayan: eight miles north-weft of Barbacoa. 
MARI'A di LEU'CA (St.), a town of Naples, in 
Otranto, on the fea-coaft near Cape Leucaj the fee of a 
bifhop: eighteen miles fouth of Otranto. 
MARI'A de MATAM'BA (St.), a town of Africa, 
capital of Matamba. Lat. 9. 35. S. Ion. 18. 34. E. 
MARI'A de MON'TE (St.), a town of Italy: three 
miles eaft of Friuli. 
MARI'A PALOM'BA (St ), a town of Naples, in 
Otranto : five miles eaft-north-eaft of Matera. 
MARI'A della SER'RA (St.), a town of Naples, in 
Calabria Ultra: eleven miles eaft of Nicaftro. 
MARI'A THERE'S A, Emprefs of Germany. See 
that article, vol. viii. p. 504-506. 
MARI'A THERE'SA (Order of). See the article 
'Knighthood, vol. xi. p. 821. 
MARI'A ZEL'L, a town of the duchy of Stiria : twelve 
miles north of Pruck. 
MARIA'GER, a feaport-town of Denmark, in North 
Jutland, fituated on a gulf which communicates with the 
Cattegat, called Mariagerjiord. The principal trade of the 
inhabitants confifts in Itone and lime: twenty-two miles 
eaft-north-eaft of Wiborg. Lat. 56.41. N. Ion. 9. 53. E. 
MARIA'LES (Xantes), an Italian dominican monk, 
and voluminous writer, was defcended from the noble fa¬ 
mily of Pinardi , and born at Venice about the year 1580. 
Me entered young into the order of St. Dominic, when he 
Vol. XIV. No. 980. 
MAR Sbi 
renounced his family-name for that of Mariakt , and was 
fent into Spain to ftudy divinity. Upon his return to 
Italy, he was nominated lecturer in divinity at Padua for 
the year 1608. Afterwards he was appointed fuperin- 
fendant of the ftudies in the conventual college of the 
fame city ; which poft he filled for the third time in the 
year 1624. The reft of his life he devoted to ftudy, de¬ 
clining every honourable office which his order would 
have conferred on him. The violence of his zeal for the 
interefts of the court of Rome, which particularly ap¬ 
peared in fome of his works againft the liberties of the 
Gallican church, occafioned his being involved in dis¬ 
grace, and fent twice into exile from the territories of the 
republic, by order of the Venetian fenate. He fpent his 
latter days in his native city, where he died in 1660, about 
the age of eighty. He was the author of 1. Controverfi.T, 
ad univerfain Summam Theologits S. Thom. Aquinatis, 
&c. 1624, folio. 2. Bibliotheca Interpretum ad univerfain 
Summam Theologiae Divi Thomse 1660, 4 vols. folio. 3. 
Ampliffimutn Artium Scientiarumque Omnium Amphi- 
theatrum, hoc eft, de rebus univerfis celeberrimte Quref- 
tiones difputatse ab orbis Oraculo D. Thoma, 1658, folio. 
4. Quali Prefagiinenti pofTono haverfi delle prefenti Scon- 
volte dell’ Auftria, e della Spagna, e da i progreffi de 
gl’Eretici, e de’ Francefe, See. 1643, 8vo. under the name 
of Peter-Paul Torelli. 5. Stravaganze nuovamente fe- 
guite nel Chriftianiflimo regno di Francia, See. 1646, 4to. 
6. Enormita inaudite nuovamente ufeite in Luce, nel 
Chriftianiflimo Regno di Francia, contro il Decoro della 
Sede Apoftolica Romana, under the name of Sigifmund 
Campeggi. JVouv. Did. Hiji. 
MARIAL'VA, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira : thirteen miles fouth of St. Joao de Pefquira, and 
fixteen north-eaft of Pinhel. 
MA'RIAM, a town of Abyflinia: one hundred miles 
eaft-fouth-eaft of Gondar. Lat. 11.2. N. Ion. 33. 34. E. 
MARIA'ME, in ancient geography, an epifcopal town 
of Phoenicia, the fovereignty of which was confirmed by 
Alexander the Great to Garaloftratus, king of Arad. 
MARIAM'NE, the name of two fucceflive wives of 
Herod the Great. See that article, vol. ix. p. 818. 
MARIA'NA (Juan de), a celebrated Spanifh hiftorian, 
was born at Talavera in 1536. He was an illegitimate 
child of Juan Martinez de Mariana, afterwards canon and 
dean of the collegiate in that town. He received an ex¬ 
cellent introductory education, and was fent at a proper 
age to Alcala, an univerfity of confiderable reputation. 
Soon after this, Ignatius Loyola fent miflionaries into Caf- 
tile to eftablifh his order there; and Mariana, who was 
only in his feventeenth year, joined them. At the age of 
twenty-four he was appointed to the profeflbrfhip of the<5= 
logy at the great college lately eftablifhed at Rome. Here 
he leftured four years, and had among others the famous 
Bellarmine as one of his pupils. From Rome he went to 
Sicily, to open a courfe of theology which the Jefuits had 
begun there. After a refidence of two years in that ifland, 
he was fent to Paris in the fame capacity, where for five 
years he publicly expounded Aquinas; and the degree of 
doftor was, on account of his great learning, conferred 
upon him. Not having his health at Paris, he obtained 
permiflion to refign his chair and retire to Toledo, where 
he was defied to various high offices in the church, and 
was employed by the archbifhop in forming a catalogue of 
prohibited books, and the Index Expurgatorius, which 
was publifhed in 1584. About this time he bore a part in 
the edition of St. Iiidore’s works, and incurred fome fuf. 
picion by the freedom with which he efpoufed the caufe 
of Arias Montanus; in this, as in fubfequent inftances, 
he proved that the interefts of literature and of liberty 
were dearer to him than thofe of his order or himfelf. 
Mariana had long afpired to be the hiftorian of hisown 
country ; and, in the little leifure which his luperiors left 
him, he followed the indications of his own happier genius. 
Nature had defigned him for fomething better than to ex¬ 
pound Thomas Aquinas, and to emafculate books for the 
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