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educated partly at Modena, after which, it is fuppofed, 
he Itudied at the nniverfity of Padua. At the age of 
twenty he was nominated by Clement VII. to the bilhopric 
of Modena, but he did not enter upon the charge till the 
year 1533. Even before this, fo much confidence was 
placed in his early talents and difcretion, that he was fent 
by tlie pope into France to induce the king to confent to 
a peace. In 1536 pope Paul III. appointed lrirn nuncio 
in ordinary to Ferdinand king of the Romans; he was 
prefent at the diets held at Hagenau and Spire, and it was 
owing to him that the approaching general council was 
appointed to be held at Trent. In 1542 he was made a 
Cardinal, and fixed upon as prefident of the council, 
though then only thirty-three years of age. In 1544 he 
was appointed to the legation of Bologna, of which he 
was deprived in 1548 from the fufpicions of the French, 
“who thought him too much devoted to the interefts of 
the emperor: it was perhaps for afimilar reafon, that on 
the affembling of the council of Trent he was excluded 
from the prefidentfhip to which he had been elected. In 
1553 he was fent by Julius III. as legate to the diet of 
Augfburg, where he vigilantly and warmly defended the 
interefts of the holy fee. 
The cardinal, though zealoufly attached to the church 
of Rome, was an enemy to perfecution, and on that ac¬ 
count fell under the fufpicion of the bigot cardinal 
Carafta, afterwards pope Paul IV. who caufed Morone to 
be arrefted and confined in the caftle of St. Angelo. I11 
1558 he was brought to trial upon the chai'ge of teaching 
and having taught many opinions connedled with the re¬ 
formed faith. He made his innocence fo apparent, that 
the pope offered to liberate him from prifon, which he re- 
fufed, unlefs he would grant him, at the fame time, a fo- 
letnn declaration that he believed him innocent. The 
pope hefitated, and died without coming to a determina¬ 
tion ; and Morone was admitted to the conclave which 
eledted Pius IV. The examination of his caufe was then 
refumed ; and he obtained a complete abfolution not only 
from crime, but even from all fufpicion in matters of faith. 
As arecompence for fo ferious an injury, he was appointed 
to fucceed cardinal Gonzaga as prefident of the council of 
Trent, and by his addrefs he brought its bufinefs to a con- 
clufion in 1363. After this he obtained many fees appro¬ 
priated to the cardinals, as thofe of Paleftrina, Frefcati, 
Porto, and Oftia. During the troubles of Genoa in 1575, 
lie was fent thither as legate by Gregory XIII. and con¬ 
tributed very much to the re-eftablifliment of tranquillity. 
He died at Rome in 1580, leaving behind him a very high 
cliaradier for integrity, and adlivity in the various fervices 
which he undertook. Some Latin and Italian Letters; 
an Oration before the Council of Trent, and another be¬ 
fore the emperor Ferdinand ; Synodial Conftitutions for 
Modena, and a Code of Laws for the government of Ge¬ 
noa; are.proofs that his public occupations did not en¬ 
tirely prevent him from exercifing his pen to ufeful pur- 
pofes. Tiralofchi. 
MORONO'BEA, f. in botany. See Symphonia. 
MORC'SE, adj. [ morons, Lat.] Ungovernable; licen¬ 
tious. Not now in life in this fenfe. —Daily experience ei¬ 
ther of often laples, or nwrofous defires. Sheldon’s Miracles 
of Antichrijl, 1616.—In this commandment are forbidden 
all that feeds this fin, [adultery,] or are incentives to it; 
as luxurious diet; inflaming wines ; an idle life ; morofe 
thoughts, that dwell in the fancy with delight.— Bp. Ni- 
icholfon’s Expo fare of the CatechiJ'm, 1662.—Sour of temper; 
peevifh; iullen.—Without thefe precautions, the man de¬ 
generates into a cynick, the woman into a coquette; the 
man .grows fallen and morofe, the woman impertinent. 
Addifon’s Spectator. —Some have deferved cenlure for a 
mtrrefe and affedled taciturnity, and others have made 
Ipeeclres, though they had nothing to fay. Watts’s Impr. 
'of the Mind. 
MORO'SELY, adv. Sourly; peeviftuy.—Too many are 
•as morofely pofitive in their age, as they were childilhly fo 
an their youth. Government of ’the Tongue . 
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MORO'SENESS, f. Sournefs; peevilhnefs.—Take care 
that no fournefs and moi-ofenefs mingle with your ferious 
frame of mind. Nejbn .—Learn good humour, never to 
oppofe without juft reafon ; abate fome degrees of pride 
and morofenefs. Watts. 
MOROSI'NI (Andrew), a fenator of Venice, was de- 
feended from James Morifini, of a very illuftrious family, 
and was born in 1558. He received an excellent educa¬ 
tion, and rofe through the different degrees of nobility to 
the rank of favio grande, and to a place in the council of 
ten. He was three times one of the reformers of the uni- 
verfity of Padua, had obtained much wifdom by experi¬ 
ence in public affairs, and was accomplithed in every 
branch of polite literature. In 1558 he fucceeded to the 
office of hiftorian of the republic. He was employed in 
this talk till his death, which happened in 1618; and he 
had not then put the laft hand to it. This hiftory was 
written in Latin, and is a continuation of that of Peter 
Bembo. It comprehends the period between 1531 and 
1615. It was firft publilhed in 1623, and reprinted in 
1719 at Venice, in the Collection of Venetian Hiftorians. 
It has been ranked among the belt performances of that 
age. He alfo publilhed, in Latin, a volume of “ Opufcula 
and Epiftles ;” and a narrative, in Italian, of “ Expedi¬ 
tions to the Holy Land, and the Acquifition of Conftan- 
tinople by the Venetian republic.” 
MORISI'NI (Paul), brother to the preceding, and like- 
wife a Venetian fenator, was appointed to the fame poll of 
public hiftorian, after Nicholas Contrarini. He gave an. 
entire hiftory of the republic from its origin to the year 
1487, in the Italian language. It was publilhed in 1637. 
It is laid to be valuable for feveral notices omitted by 
other writers who preceded him. Moreri. 
MORISI'NI (Francis), doge of Venice, and one of the 
greateft commanders that the republic has poffelTed, was 
born in 1618. His father, Peter, was of the noble family 
of his name, and a procurator of St. Mark. Francis from, 
the age of twenty, bore arms in the Venetian galleys ; 
and, diltinguilhed himfelf fo much againft the Turks,, that 
he obtained the command of a galley in 1645. His va- 
lour.and fuccefs railed him in 1650 to the poll of general 
of the galleys. He was prefent at the fea-fight between 
Paros and Naxos, in which the Venetians, who loft their 
general, would probably have been defeated, had not 
Morofini fallen upon the rear of the Turks, and entirely 
turned the fortune of the day. In confequence of this 
victory, he was appointed to the command of a fleet in 
1651, with which he performed feveral important fervices. 
The government of Candia, which had for fome time been 
befieged by the Turks, was intrufted to him in 1656, where 
he fbon brought the affairs of the ifland into a better ftate. 
In 1658 he was advanced to the rank of generalillimo of 
the Venetian forces, and being joined by the Papal, Tuf- 
can, and Maltefe, galleys, took feveral places from the 
Turks in the Archipelago and Morea. In 1660, return¬ 
ing to Candia with a reinforcement of 4000 French, he 
carried a fortrefs fword in hand, and took New Candia, 
which the Turks had built to block up the Old. His of¬ 
fice expiring in 1661, he returned to Venice, where he 
had the chagrin of undergoing a charge of malverfation; 
but upon an inquiry lie was honourably acquitted. 
When Mahomet Cuprogli, the grand-vizier, went in 
perfon to pulh the fiege of Candia, Morofini was again fe- 
leCted by the fenate for its defence ; and, during twenty- 
eight months that the place ftill held out, he fuftained 
fifty-fix aflaults, befidesa number of fubterranean attacks, 
and dellroyed a great multitude of the enemy. Being at 
length obliged to capitulate, he obtained conditions wor¬ 
thy of the efteem his bravery infpired in the Turkilh com¬ 
mander. His reception at Venice was at firft very favour¬ 
able ; but, in conlequence of a violent oration made 
againft him in the fenate, he was put under an arreft. He 
was, however, fo well defended, that his good fervices were 
recognifed, and he was reftored to the office of procurator 
of St. Mark, conferred upon him a Ihort time before the 
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