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of philofophy and divinity in one of their colleges, and 
perfefted himfelf at the fame time in the Latin, Greek, 
and Hebrew, languages. Returning to his monaftery, he 
gave himfelf up entirely to the Rudy and public interpreta¬ 
tion of the Scriptures. By thefirft courfe of lectures which 
he delivered, which were on the prophecy of Ifaiah, he 
acquired very great applaufe, and induced the univerfity 
of Coimbra to honour him with the degree of doftor of 
divinity. Not long afterwards he was appointed profeffor 
of divinity and fcriptural learning in that univerfity; 
and he difcharged the duties of that office during many 
years, with the higheft reputation for exrenlive know¬ 
ledge as a theologian, for profound erudition, and for 
eloquence. When, after the death of king Sebaftian in 
Africa, different competitors fet up their pretenfions to 
the crown of Portugal, Pinto declared in favour of the 
houfe of Braganza, and exerted all his credit and popu¬ 
larity in promoting its interefts. On this account he 
became obnoxious to Philip II. king of Spain; and, 
when the armies of that monarch invaded the kingdom, 
he was taken into cuftody, and confined in a monaftery 
belonging to his order near Toledo. Here he died in 
1584, overwhelmed with grief at feeing his country fub- 
jugated by a foreign power. He publifhed, 1. Comtnen- 
tarius in Ifaiam Prophetam, 1561, folio. 2. Comment, 
iri Ifaiam, Hieremiam, et Threnos, 1567, folio. 3. Com¬ 
ment. in Ezekieletn, 1568, folio. 4. Comment, in Da- 
nielem, Nahum, et Lamentationes Hieremise, 1582,8V©. 
Thp above-mentioned works were frequently reprinted 
in feparate forms at different places; and colleflively at 
Cologne in 1616, in 5 vols. 4to. and at Paris the following 
year in 3 vols. folio. Pinto was alfo the author of various 
devotional and moral treatifes, in the Portuguefe lan¬ 
guage, u'hich were held in great eftimation, and, in par¬ 
ticular, two volumes of dialogues on philofophical, moral, 
and religious, topics, entitled, ‘-'A Piflure of the Chrif- 
tian Life,” 1571, 8vo. This work has been tranfiated 
into the French and Italian languages, and repeatedly 
printed at Paris, Venice, and other places. Le Long's 
Bibl: Sac. 
PIN'TO (Thomas), an excellent performer on the 
violin, born in England of Italian parents. He was a 
fkilful player on his inftrument when a boy ; and, long 
before manhood came on, was employed as the leader of 
large bands in concerts. He w'as, however, when Giar- 
dini arrived in England, very idle, and inclined more to 
the fine gentleman than the mufical ftudent; kept a 
horfe; was always in boots of a morning,with a fwitch in his 
hand inftead of a fiddle-ftick. But, after hearing Giardini, 
who was fuperiorto all other performers on his inftrument 
with which he was acquainted, he began to think it 
neceffary to practife, which he did for fome time with 
great diligence. With a powerful hand, and marvellous 
quick eye, he was in general fo carelefs a player, that he 
performed the mod difficult mufic that could be fet before 
him better the firft time he faw it than ever after. He 
was then obliged to look at the notes with fome care and 
attention; but, afterwards trufting to his memory, he 
frequently committed miftakes, and miffed the expreffion 
of paffages, which, if he had thought worth looking at, 
he would have executed with certainty. After leading at 
the opera whenever Giardini laid down the truncheon, 
he was engaged as firft violin at Drury-lane theatre, where 
he led during many years. He married for his firft wife 
Sybilla, a German under-finger at the opera, and fome- 
times employed in burlettas at Drury-lane. Alter her 
deceafe, he married the celebrated Mifs Brent, and, quit¬ 
ting England, fettled in Ireland, where he died in De¬ 
cember 1782, aged 53 years. 
His accuracy in playing at fight was fo extraordinary, 
that he even aftonifhed Bach and Abel by the extent of 
this faculty ; and to embarrafs him, if poffible, they com- 
pofed jointly a concerto for the violin, with folo parts as 
difficult as they could invent; and, carrying it to Vaux- 
hali as fioon as tranfcribed in feparate parts, told him 
that they had juft finifhed a concerto, of which, as it was 
fomewhat out of the common way, they wifhed to hear 
the effedt, if he would venture to try it at fight. “ Let 
me fee it,” fays Pinto; and, after a flight glance at the 
folo parts, and picking his teeth in his ufual way, he faid 
if they pleafed he would try it as his concerto for the 
night. And the eminent compofers who wiflied to make 
this experiment, declared that they did not believe any 
of the greateft performers in Europe on the violin would 
have played it better with a month’s practice. 
Pinto, who in playing an adagio feemed to have fo 
much feeling and expreffion, was a Stoic at heart, equally 
indifferent to pain and pleafure. While he led the band 
at Drury-lane, during the moft affedling fcene of Gar¬ 
rick’s capital tragic parts, he ufed to fall afleep in the 
orcheftra full in his view; which after our genuine 
Rofcius had with indignation feen, he never refted till 
his place in the orcheftra was fupplied by a leader on 
whofe feelings he had more power. Pinto died with the 
fame indifference about worldly concerns as he had lived, 
and left his unfortunate widow, the once much-famed 
Mifs Brent, fo literally a beggar, that (he returned to 
England to folicit charity from the Mufical Fund; and 
although, by his having during feveral years neglected 
to pay his fubfcription, all her claims were annihilated 
in a legal fenfe, yet we are informed that fhe received an 
allowance from that fund as long as fhe lived; and in 
her old age fhe had a benefit at Covent Garden. 
PIN'TOR (Peter), a Spanifh medical writer and prac¬ 
titioner of fome merit, was born at Valentia in the year 
1420. He was phyfician to Alexander VI, whom he fol¬ 
lowed to Rome, where he pradtifed with great fuccefs. 
He has left behind him two performances of confiderable 
merit: 1. Aggregator Sententiarum DoClorum de Cura- 
tione in Peftilentia; Rome, 1499, folio. 2. De Morbo 
Ftedo et Occulto his Temporibus Affligenti, &c. Rome, 
1300, 4to. black letter: a book extremely fcarce, un¬ 
known to Luifiniand Aftruc, and which traces the vene¬ 
real difeafe to the year 1496. Pintor died at Rome in 
1503, aged 83 years. 
PIN'TRAL, a town of Kindooftan, in the Carnatic: 
twenty-fix miles fouth of Ongole. 
PINTURIC'CIO (Bernardino), a celebrated Italian 
painter, was born at Perugia in 1454, and was a difciple, 
and for fome years affociate, of Pietro Perugino. He 
painted in hiftory and portraiture; and was in fo much 
efteem, that he was employed to execute the portraits of 
pope Piqs II. and of Innocent VIII. of Giulia Farnefe, 
Csefar Borgia, and queen Ifabella of Spain. His ftyle, 
neverthelels, was extremely dry and gothic, as he intro¬ 
duced gilding in the architectural and other parts of his 
pictures, and an over-laboured degree of finifhing. In 
his moft memorable performance, the Hiftory of Pius II. 
painted in ten compartments in the library at Sienna, 
he is faid to have been affifted by Raphael, then a very 
young man, and pupil of Perugino, who made fome car¬ 
toons of the moft material incidents, and fketched many 
parts of the compofitions. 
His laft work was a Nativity, for the monaftery of St. 
Francis at Vienna ; in which place he had a room afligned 
him to paint in, without the danger of being interrupted; 
and out of which he requefted every thing might be 
removed. Willing to indulge him, the monks caufed 
all the furniture to be taken away, except an old cheft, 
which, being greatly decayed, they did not attempt to 
move, as they were fearful of deftroying it. Pinturiccio 
infilled, however, upon its removal; and the attempt was 
fcarcely made, when it broke to pieces, and atrealure of 
500 pieces of gold was dificovered concealed within it. 
The joy of the monks was equalled only by the mortifi¬ 
cation of the painter, who was faid to have died of cha¬ 
grin loon after, at the age of 59, in the year 1513.^ 
PINTZOU'A, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 
Pomerelia : twenty-two miles fouth-fouth-weft of Ma- 
rienburg. 
PIN'ULES, 
