P I E 
was born A.D. 1665, according to fome authors, at Rome; 
others place his birth at Premia, in the Milanefe territory. 
He learned the principles of art of Jof. Ghezzi and Carlo 
Maratti, who employed him in copying fome of the prin¬ 
cipal works of Raphael, and other celebrated Italian mas¬ 
ters. He died at Rome in the year 1716. Notwithftand- 
ing that Pietri employed great part of his time in copy¬ 
ing, we have feveral meritorious hiftorical pi&ures by 
him from his own compofitions ; thole efpecially which 
he painted for the church of St. Clement at Rome. He 
etched fome few plates, and among them the two follow¬ 
ing will probably be found mod: worthy of notice: the 
Aflumption of the Virgin, a middling-fized upright; and 
St. Lawrence the Judinian, a fmall upright; both from his 
own compofitions. 
PI'ETY,/. [pietas, Lat.] Difcharge of duty to God. 
—Praying for them would make them as glad to fee their 
fervants eminent in piety as themfelves. Law. —Duty to 
parents, or thofe in luperior relation : 
Pope’s filial piety excels 
Whatever Grecian dory tells. Swift. 
Piety, like many othervirtues, received amongtheRo- 
nians divine honours, and was made one of their gods. Aci- 
lius Glabrio firli: eredled a temple to this divinity, Pietas, 
which he did upon the fpot on which a woman had fed 
with her own milk her aged father, who had been im- 
prifoned by order of the fenate, and deprived of all ali¬ 
ments. The dory is well known, and is at length in au¬ 
thors which are in the hands of every fchoolboy. See 
Cicero de Div. i. Valerius Maximus, v. 4. and our article 
Filial Love. 
If piety was thus pradlifed and thus honoured in 
heathen antiquity, it furely ought not to be lefs fo among 
Chridians, to whom its nature is better defined, and to 
the pradlice of which they have motives of greater co¬ 
gency. A learned and elegant writer has faid, that the 
want of piety arifes from the want of fenfibility ; and it 
is certain, that devotional tades and habits are very defi¬ 
nable in themfelves, exclufive of their effedls in meliora¬ 
ting the morals and difpofition, and promoting prefent 
and future felicity. They add dignity, pleafure, and fe- 
curity, to any age : but to old age they are the mod be¬ 
coming grace, the mod fubdantial fupport, and the fweet- 
ed comfort. In order to preferve them, it will be necef- 
fary to preferve our fenfibility; and nothing will contri¬ 
bute fo much to this purpofeas a life of temperance, in¬ 
nocence, and fimplicity. 
PI'ETY, Mounts of. See Mount, vol. xvi. p. 134. 
Something fimilar to the Italian mounts of piety, it is 
faid, is about to be edablifhed in London, under the auf- 
pices of Mrs. Fry. Its grand objedl feems to be to ena¬ 
ble the poor to pledge whatever they may have at a 
fmaller rate of intered than what is allowed at prefent to 
the pawnbrokersofthe metropolis by theadt of parliament. 
It further appears, that the celebrated banking-houfe adja¬ 
cent to the Poultry, one partner of which is nearly connect¬ 
ed to the lady above alluded to, is concerned in the prefent 
fpeculation. It is to be called, the Philanthropic Equitable 
Loan Bank; and the plan is, to raife two millions of 
money in 50I. (hares, fo that it is a fpeculation of no fmall 
extent; and its announcement has already thrown the 
pawnbrokers into a grievous condensation. A fimilar 
projeft is afloat in Dublin ; part of the money to be raifed 
in England; the capital is to be one million derling. 
Another in Manchefler, with a capital of 500,000!. April 
28, 1824. r 
PIE'VE, a town of Genoa: two miles north-wed of 
Albenga. 
PIE'VE (La), a town of Italy, on the Reno, furround- 
ed with an earthen rampart and a ditch. 
PIE'VE di CADO'RA. See Cadora. 
PIE'VE del DU'CA, a town of Italy ; four miles weft 
of Rimini. 
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PIE'VE St. GIACO'MO, a town of Italy : feven miles 
eaft of Cremona. 
PIEVE de St. MAURI'TIO, a town of Italy: twelve 
miles eaft of Cremona. 
PIE'VE del MO'NA, a town of Italy: twelve miles 
eaft-north-eaft of Cremona. 
PIE'VE di SAC'CO, a town of Italy, in the Paduan, 
fituated on a canal called Fiumcello, containing about 
5100 inhabitants, a collegiate church, a mount of piety, 
and feveral fine buildings : ten miles eaft of Padua. 
PIE'VE A SIE'VE, a town of Italy : ten miles eaft of 
Florence. 
PIE'VE St. STEFA'NO, a town of Italy, on the Ti¬ 
ber: fifteen miles north of Arezzo. 
PIEUX (Les), a town of France, in the department of 
the Channel: nine miles fouth-weft of Cherburg, and 
twelve weft of Valognes. 
PI'EXMAKL, a town of Sweden, in the government 
of Kuopio : thirty-eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Kuopio. 
PIF'ENDEL, an eminent performer on the violin, in 
the fervice of Auguftus II. king of Poland. According 
to Quantz, Pifendel had in his youth received inftruCtions 
in finging from Piftocchi, and on the violin fromTofelli. 
Quantz is very warm in his praifes, calling him a pro¬ 
found theorift, a great performer, and a truly honeftman. 
It was from this worthy concert-mafter, fays he, that I 
learned to play an adagio, and to compofe in many parts. 
Pifendel had in his youth travelled through France and 
Italy, where he had acquired the peculiarities in thetalle 
of both countries, and fo blended them together as to 
form a third genus, a mixed ftyle of writing and playing, 
which was half French and half Italian. Influenced by 
his example, Quantz declares that he always preferred 
this compound ftyle to that of Italy, France, or the na¬ 
tional ftyle of his own country. 
PIG, f. [pic, Sax.] A young fow or boar. See the ar¬ 
ticle Sus.—The flefh-meats of an eafy digeftion, are pig, 
lamb, rabbit, and chicken. Fluyer on the Humours. 
Some men there are, love not a gaping pig-, 
Some that are mad if they behold a cat. Slialiefpeare. 
An oblong mafs of lead or unforged iron, or mafs of me¬ 
tal melted from the ore, is called fow-metal, and pieces of 
that metal are called pigs ; they weigh about 250 lbs. each. 
A nodding beam or pig of lead 
May hurt the very ableft head. Pope. 
Guinea-ViG. See Cavia. 
To PIG, v. 11. To farrow ; to bring pigs. 
PIG'-CASE, /. A fort of narrow cafe or flail, in which 
an unfortunate animal of this kind is confined while it is 
undergoing the procefs of fattening, fo as not to be able 
to turn itfelf completely round, by which it is fuppofed 
to fatten better and more expeditioufly, as well as with a 
lefs quantity of food in proportion to that which is ufed 
for equal-fized animals fed in other methods. 
Thefe cafes are conftrudted in feparate divifions, in fuch 
a manner, that each of them may contain a pig, and fit 
him as nearly as poflible when he is in it; but he mult not 
be able to turn himfelf round ; there is, however, a fpace 
left at the bottom of each of them, by which he is ena¬ 
bled to lie down, in which cafe his feet pafs through the 
fpace left. Upon one fide of fuch buildings there is 
ufually a range of fmall troughs in the walls or boardings, 
and on the other a row of Aiders, which (hut the pigs in. 
The paving in the bottom of thefe divifions Hopes gently 
backwards to prevent wetnefs, and no litter is ever em¬ 
ployed in them, but they are kept clean and fweet by the 
ufe of a hoe and broom. Pig-cafes of this fort are lome- 
times raifed from foundations laid in the ground, and at 
others eredted upon wheels in a kind of wooden building, 
fo as to move about on grafs-land. They are frequently 
met with in the neighbourhood of Maldon in Eflex. 
PIG 
