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naldo Mantovano, the most expert of the three, and iii the 
opinion of Vasari, who laments the shortness of his life, the 
greatest painter that Mantua ever produced: the altar-piece 
-of Sta. Agostina alia Trinita has a grandeur of style above 
his age, and has by some been suspected to be the design 
of Giulio. To these may be added Fermo Guisoni, who co¬ 
loured in the cathedral the Call of St. Peter and St. Andrew, 
from the most studied and most beautiful cartoon of the 
master; and Theodore Ghigi, or as he subcribes himself, 
Theodore Mantovano, a great designer, and so practised 
in the style of Giulio, that after his death he was selected by 
.the prince to finish several of his works. 
In addition to his powers as a painter, Giulio Romano 
possessed a very considerable knowledge of the principles of 
architecture; and was employed in plans for several of the 
palaces at Rome and Mantua. His last architectural exer¬ 
tion was the erection of a splendid mansion for himself at 
Mantua. Vasari relates, that upon the death of San Gallo, 
the architect of St. Peter’s, Guilio was selected by the pope 
for his successor, but was prevented leaving Mantua by the 
interest of the cardinal Duke, and the entreaties of his wife 
and her immediate friends and relations; and whilst he was 
endeavouring to surmount these difficulties, and enjoy the 
proffered honour and emolument, he was seized with illness, 
and borne to the grave in the year 1546, and in the 54th of 
his age. He left a son, called, after his respected master, 
Raphael, of whom nothing remains, but the tradition that 
he possessed talents worthy of his father. He died in 1560, 
at the age of 30. Fuseli's Pilkington. 
ROMANO, a town of Austrian Italy, not far from the 
Oglio. It is surrounded with a wall, and defended by a 
castle. Population 3200; 26 miles east of Milan. 
ROMANO, a town of Piedmont; 5 miles south of Ivrea, 
with 2000 inhabitants. It stands on an eminence near the 
Chiusella, and has a bridge over that river. This was con¬ 
sidered an important pass when the French crossed the Alps 
in 1800. Accordingly, an obstinate engagement took place 
on the 26th May, in which the Austrian general was killed, 
and his detachment defeated. 
ROMANO, or Romano Cayo, a small island of the 
north shore of the island of Cuba. It is long and narrow, 
and is at the eastern extremity of that cluster of isles called 
the King’s Garden. 
ROMANOV, a small town of European Russia, in the 
government of Kiev; 86 miles south-south-west of Kiev. 
ROMANOV, a town of the interior of European Russia, 
in the government of Jaroslav, on the Volga. Population 
2100; 34 miles north-west of Jaroslav. 
ROMANOV, or Romanovka, a small town of Russia, 
in Lithuania, in the government of Minsk; 22 miles west- 
by-north of Sluck, and 65 south-south-west of Minsk. 
ROMANOV, or Romanovka, a small town of European 
Russia, in Volhynia; 8 miles north-east of Zytomiers. 
ROMANOV, a town of European Russia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Jaroslav, on the Wolga. It has 7 churches, and 
4200 inhabitants, with manufactures of linen, silk, and lea¬ 
ther ; also some commission trade in silk and woollen stuffs; 
16 miles west-north-west of Jaroslav. Lat. 57. 46. N. long. 
39.40.E. 
ROMANOVA, a small town in the west of European 
Russia, in Volhynia; 45 miles south-east of Zytomiers. 
ROMANS, a town of France, in the province of Dau- 
phiny, department of the Drome, on the Isere, with a bridge 
over that river. It contains 6500 inhabitants, and has ma¬ 
nufactures of woollen and silk; also tanneries, and a number 
of presses for making olive oil. The environs are fertile, 
.and produce the celebrated, wine called hermitage. This 
town suffered greatly by the civil wars; 11 miles north-east 
of Valence, and 28 west-south-west of Grenoble. 
ROMANSLEIGH, a village of England, in Devonshire ; 
4 miles south-by-east of South Moulton. 
ROMANSWEILER, a village of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Rhine, with 800 inhabitants. 
ROMANTIC, or Romantically, adj. Resembling 
the tales of romances ; wild.!—Philosophers have maintained 
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opinions ‘more absurd than any of the most fabulous 
poets or romantick writers. Keil.- —Improbable ; false.-* 
Their feigned and romantic heroes. Scott. —Fanciful ; 
full of wild scenery. 
The dun umbrage, o’er the falling stream, 
Romantick hangs. 
ROMA'NTICALLY, adv. Wildly; extravagantly.— 
I love you both very sincerely, though not so romantically 
perhaps as such as you may expect, who have been used 
to receive more complimental letters and high flights. Pope. 
ROMA'NTICKNESS, s. State or quality of being 
romantick. 
ROMANUS, the name of several Roman emperors. See 
Rome. 
ROMANUS, Pope, was a native of Gallesium, who, upon 
the expulsion of Stephen VI. or VII. from the see of Rome, 
in the autumn of the year 897, was preferred to that dignity. 
He is said by Platina to have annulled the acts of his pre¬ 
decessor, and, in particular, to have declared his proceedings 
against the corpse and memory of Pope Fomosus, unjust 
and illegal; but his statement is not confirmed by the testi¬ 
mony of any of the more ancient writers. Romanus’s 
dignity was but of short duration, since he died in Jan. 
898, before he had been in possession of it quite four months. 
Two “ Letters” attributed to him may be seen in Baluze’s 
“ Append, ad Marc. Hispan.” Platina. Moreri. 
ROMANUS (Adrian), a physician and learned mathe¬ 
matician, who flourished in the 16th and at the commence¬ 
ment of the 17th century, was born at Louvain, in the year 
1561. He studied philosophy and the mathematics under 
the Jesuits at Cologne; and at the same city began the 
study of medicine, which he prosecuted still further at 
Louvain, and afterwards completed in the Italian universities. 
Possessed of a lively penetrating genius, united to a solid 
judgment, he made a very considerable proficiency in the 
different sciences to which his attention was directed, as 
was sufficiently apparent from the lectures which after his 
return from Italy he delivered for some years at Louvain, 
and the books which he published there. In the year 1593* 
he accepted an invitation from the prince and Bishop of 
Wurtzburg, in the German .circle of Franconia,-to teach the 
mathematics and medicine in a college which that prelate 
was then founding. He was appointed physician to the 
Emperor, and honoured with the insignia of the order of the 
Golden Fleece. He visited almost the whole of Germany, 
Hungary, Bohemia, Prussia, and Poland, and. resided near 
two years with John de Samoschi, ‘ or Zamoschi, chancellor 
of the kingdom of Poland. At the request of that noble¬ 
man, in the year 1710, he delivered public lectures on the 
mathematics in the new town which was named after him-- 
He died at Mentz about the age of 54. He was the author 
of “ Ouranographia, de Cslorum Numero et Ordine,” 1591; 
4to.; “ Ideae Mathematics pars prior, sive Methodus Poly-, 
gonorum,” &c., 1593,4to.; “TheatrumUrbiuminquo Urbium 
praecipuarum per Orbem universam brevis est Descriptio,” 
1595, 4to.; “ Supputatio Ecclesiastica, juxtanovam veterem-- 
que Calendarii Rationem, cum Theoria Calendariorum,” 
1595, 4to.; “ Theoria Ventorum,” of the same date, in 4to.; 
“ ProblemaApolloniacum,” of the same date, in 4to.; “Apolo¬ 
gia pro Archimede, ad Josephum Scaligerum;” “ Expositio et 
Analysis in Archimedis Circuli Dimensionem;" “ Exercita- 
tiones Cyclicae,” 1597, folio; “ Idea Matheseos Universae,’’ 
1602,8 vo., afterwards published in an enlargedform, under the 
title of “ Mathesis Polemica,” 8vo.; “Arithmetics Quatuor 
Instrumenta,” 1603, folio; “ Speculum Mathematicum, 
sive Organum Forma Mapps expressum, de Motibus in 
prime Coelo ac mobili spectari solitas,” 1606, 4to.; Method 
dus Experimendi numeros Quantumvis Maximos,” 1607, 
folio; “Mathematics Analyseos Triumphus,” of. the same 
date, in folio; “ Canon Triangulorum Sphsricorum,” 1609, 
4to; “ Canon Triangulorum Rectangulorum, turn Sphsricos- 
rum quam Rectilineorum;” “ Pyrotechnia, sive de Ignibus 
festivis, Jocosis et Artificialibus, Lib. II.,” 1611, 4to., &c. 
Valerii. Andrea Biltl. Eelg. Moreri. 
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