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profecution of herefy. Palearius was arrefted and brought 
to Rome, where lie was committed to a clofe imprifon- 
ment, and accufed of various errors of doctrine. Thefe 
were, that he denied purgatory, difapproved the cuftora of 
burying the dead in churches, fpoke unfavourably of the 
monaftic Itate and the lives of the monks, and attributed 
junification to the merits of Chrift alone. Upon thefe 
charges he was convidled and condemned to the flames. 
After having (it is faid) retraced his errors, he wasltran- 
gled,andliis body was burnt, in the month of July 1570. 
This was the lamentable fate of a man whom all agree to 
have been pious, moral, and learned. Of the writings of 
Palearius, the bed known is his poem “ De Immortali- 
tate Animorum,” in three books, firlt printed at Lyons 
in 1536, with a highly commendatory letter from cardi¬ 
nal Sadolet. Its verfification is formed upon that of Lu¬ 
cretius rather than that of Virgil, and is faid to be faulty. 
The poem, however, has been reprinted in feveral collec¬ 
tions of feledt Latin poetry by Italians. His other works 
are, Fourteen Orations on different fubjedts; Letters, and 
Poems, all written in a pure Latin ftyle. After his death 
was printed his “ Adlio in Pontilices Romanos et eorum 
Affeclas,” which he had compofed a fliort time before the 
meeting of the council of Trent, with an intention of 
getting it prefented by the amhafiadors of the emperor; 
but this was never done. It is an eloquent plea in favour 
of proteftantifm. Bayle. Mbreri. 
PA'LEATED, adj. Mingled with chaff; chaffy. 
PALEC'KE, a town of Pruflia, in the province of Ober- 
land: fourteen miles fouth-eaft of Mohrungen. 
PA'LED, adj. Striped ; an heraldic term : 
Bufkins he wore of coftlieft cordwayne, 
Pinckt upon gold, and paled part by part, 
As then the guize was for each gentle fwayne. Spenfer. 
Set round with pales, or fomething fimilar.— Paled flowers 
are thofe which have thin leaves fet about, or furrounding, 
a head, or thrum ; as in marigolds, See. Chambers. 
PALE'E, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: forty-five 
miles weft: of Kairabad. 
PALE'GA PAIANEL'LI, in botany. See Bignonia. 
PA'LELY, adv. Wanly; not freflily; not ruddily. 
PALEN'CIA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Leon, on tire Carrion, the fee of a bifliop, fuffragan of 
Burgos. It contains five churches, eleven convents, and 
two hofpitals. It was anciently one of the ftrongeft towns 
belonging to the Vaccasi, and named Pallantia. It is 
fifty-feven miles fouth-eaft of Leon, and one hundred 
north-north-w'eft of Madrid. Lat. 41. 59. N. Ion. 4. 34. W. 
PAL'ENDAR, or Pal'ander, f. A kind of flat-bot¬ 
tomed boat ufed for the tranfportation of horfes; it was 
furnifhed with a platform to be let down as a drawbridge 
for landing, but which at fea was clofed into the fide of 
the veflel.—Solyman fent over light horfemen in great 
palendars, which, running all along the fea-coaft, carried 
the people and the cattle. Knolles. —From the verfion of 
Vigniere, I adopt the well-founding word palandcr, which 
is ftill ufed, I believe, in the Mediterranean. Gibbon, 
ch. lx. 
PA'LENESS, J'. Wannefs; want of colour; want of 
frefhnefs ; fickly whitenefs of look.—Her blood durft not 
yet come to her face, to take away the name of palencjs 
from her moft pure whitenefs. Sidney. 
The blood the virgin’s cheek forfook, 
A livid pcdenej's fpreads o’er all her look. Pope. 
Want of colour; want of luftre: 
The pcdenej’s of this flow’r 
Bewray’d the faintnefs of my mafter’s heart. Shaliefpeare. 
PALE'NO, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Citra: fif¬ 
teen miles fouth-weft of Langiano, and nine eaft of Sul- 
raona. Lat. 43.3. N. Ion. 14. 2, E. 
PALEN'QUE, a town of Mexico, in the province of 
Chiapa : fixty miles north-eaft of Chiapa dos Efpagnoles. 
PALENIQUE, a fmall ifland in the Spanilh Main. Lat. 
9. 30. N. Ion. 79. 5. W. 
PAL'ENSEN, a town of Weftphalia, in the princi¬ 
pality of Calenberg: fix miles fouth of Hanover. 
PALENZUE'LA, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile: 
twenty-five miles fouth-weft of Burgos. 
PAI-EOCAS'TRO. See Policastro. 
PALEOCAS'TRO, a town on the north coaft of the 
ifland of Lemno. Lat. 40. o. N. Ion. 42. 55. E. 
PALEOG'RAPHY, J\ [ paleographic , Fr. iraAaio? and 
yj>a.xa, Gr.] The art of explaining ancient writings. 
Todd's Johnjon. —We have never met with this word be¬ 
fore. Mr. Todd quotes no authority for it; but the 
French word from which he derives it is of recent ufe, 
having been coined fince the revolution. 
PALEOT'TI (Gabriel), a learned Italian cardinal, was 
born at Bologna in the year 1524. He was defeended 
from a family which had produced feveral eminent cha- 
radlers in the profeflion of civil and canon law ; and, being 
himfelf led by inclination to the fame purfuit, he made a 
rapid and very fuccefsful proficiency in the ftudy of lite¬ 
rature and jurifprudence, at the univerfity in his native 
city. The firft preferment which he received, was a ca- 
nonry of Bologna; after which he was appointed pro- 
feflor of civil and canon law at the univerfity. The Far- 
nefe family obtained for him the poll of auditor of the 
rota at Rome, when he was only thirty-three years of 
age. When pope Pius IV. opened the council of Trent, 
hefentPaleotti thither in the capacity of prodlorand coun- 
fellor to his legates, who took no ftep of importance with¬ 
out his advice. Of this council Paleotti wrote a “ Hiftory,” 
ftill remaining in MS. of which Pallavicini freely availed 
himfelf, in his work on the fame fubjedl. After the break- 
ing-up of this council, he returned to his office at Rome, 
which he held till 1565, when Pius IV. raifed him to the 
dignity of the purple. By Pius V. he was created biffiop 
of Bologna, and that fee was eredted into an archbifliopric 
by the fame pope, to do honour both to Paleotti and his 
native country. On his condudl in this dignity the higheft 
commendations are bellowed by his biographers, who ob- 
ferve, that a kind of rivallhip feemed to exift between him 
and the great cardinal Borromeo archbilhop of Milan, 
who fhould moft diligently difeharge the duties of a good 
pallor. Paleotti died at Rome in 1597, when about fe- 
venty-three years of age. He was the author of feveral 
works of confiderable merit, on fubjedts in antiquities, ju¬ 
rifprudence, and morals. The moft confiderable of them 
are, 2. Archiepifcopale Bonnonienfe, 1594, folio. 3. De 
Imaginibus Sacris et Profanis. 4. De Sacri Confiftorii 
Confultationibus. 5. De Nothis, Spuriifque Filiis, 8vo. 
6. De Bono Senedlutis, 8vo. 7. Paftoral Letters, Inllrnc- 
tions, &c. Land'ds Hijl. Lit. de VItalic, vol. iv. 
PA'LEOUS, adj. [ palea , Lat.] Hulky; chaffy.—This 
attraction we tried in ftraws and paleous bodies. Brown. 
PALEPAR'TO, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra: 
ten miles fouth of Rofano. 
PALEP'OLI, a feaport-town of Afiatic Turkey, in 
Caramania, on the fouth-coaft : 120 miles fouth of Cogni. 
PALER'MO, a city of Sicily, in the Val-di-Mazara, 
with an archbilhop’s fee and a large harbour. This city, 
which is the capital of Sicily, is of great antiquity; and, 
if a conjedlure may be formed from its ancient name Pa- 
normus, which fignifies “ an univerfal harbour,” it was 
formerly in a very flourilhing condition. By whom it was 
founded is uncertain ; nor have we any authentic accounts 
of its inhabitants till it became a colony of the Phoeni¬ 
cians, after which it palled into the hands of the various 
nations that became mailers of this ifland. At different 
epochs it has held the rank of a metropolis. As it was 
the capital of the Saracens, we may readily account for 
many interefting and valuable monuments of that nation 
ftill exifting. The palaces Zifa, Cuba, and Mare Dolce, 
were the habitations of the Saracen princes. The Zifa, 
together with a fmall mofque adjoining, on the battle¬ 
ments of which fome Saracenic iiifcriptions appear, is in a 
perfedl 
