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lay in his critical knowledge of an author’s text; and the 
best specimen which he gave of his great talent is his edition 
of the works of Shakspeare. He had studied the age of 
Shakspeare, and employed a very large portion of his life 
in becoming acquainted with the writings, manners, and 
laws of that period, as well as the provincial peculiarities, 
whether of language or customs, which prevailed in different 
parts of the kingdom, but more particularly in those in 
which Shakspeare passed the early years of his life. He was 
continually increasing this store of knowledge by the acqui¬ 
sition of the obsolete publications of a former age, to obtain 
which he spared no expence. In preparing his last edition 
for the press,- he gave a very singular example of diligence 
and perseverance. To this work he exclusively devoted a 
period of full eighteen months, during which he left his 
house at Hampstead every morning at one o’clock, and 
coming to London, without any regard to the weather, or 
the season of the year, he found a proof-sheet of Shakspeare 
ready for his perusal and correction. Thus, while the printers 
slept he was awake, by which means he completed in about 
the time already mentioned his splendid edition of the works 
of Shakspeare, in 15 vols. octavo. 
Mr. Steevensdied in the year 1800, at the age of about 
65 years. See Malone. 
STEFANO, called II Fiorentino, is the only one of 
Giotto’s scholars who aimed at something beyond the mere 
imitation of his master, whom, according to Vasari, he 
surpassed. He was born at Florence in 1301, and was the 
grandson of Giotto, by a daughter called Caterina. He was 
the first who attempted foreshortening; and if he failed of 
complete success, he certainly corrected perspective, and gave 
more varied turns, more character, and greater vivacity to 
heads. His most accredited works in the church of Asa 
Cccli at Rome, Sta. Spirito at Florence, and elsewhere, are 
no more. No authentic work of his remains, unless we 
except a Madonna in the Campo Santo at Pisa, undoubtedly 
in a greater style than the works of his master, but retouched. 
He died in the year 1350, aged 49. Fuseli. 
STEFANO (Tomaso), according to Baldinucci, was the 
son and disciple of the foregoing artist, and born at Florence 
in 1324. He acquired the name of II Giottino, from the 
great resemblance of his works to those of Giotto. A Pieta, 
which still remains of him at S. Remigio at Florence, and 
some frescoes at Assisi, bear indisputable marks of that style. 
He died at Florence, at the age of 32. 
STEFANO, St. a small town of the island of Sicily, on 
the northern coast of the Val di Demona, between the town 
of Cefalu and Caronia. It has a population of 3000, is plea¬ 
santly situated, and regularly built, but subject to the vial 
aria in the autumn months. 
STEFANO, St., a small island of Italy, in the bay of 
Naples, covered with wood, but neither cultivated nor inha¬ 
bited. 
STEFANO DI BELBO, St., a small town of Ihe conti¬ 
nental Sardinian states, in the dutchy of Montferrat, province 
of Acqui, with 3200 inhabitants. It stands on the river 
Belbo; 14 miles east-south-east of Alba. 
STEFANO DEL BOSCO, St. a small town of the 
south part of the kingdom of Naples, in Calabria Ultra, with 
2400 inhabitants. 
STEFFELSDORF, Great. See Rima-Szombath. 
STEFFENSKLINT, a promontory of Denmark, on the 
east coast of the island of Zealand. 
STEFT, or Markt-Stefe, a small town of Bavarian 
Franconia; 12 miles east-south-east of Wurzburg. It has 
a trade in corn, fruit, and the transit of goods, for the pro¬ 
motion of which a magazine has been erected, and a canal 
dug for the security of boats in winter, against the breaking 
up of the ice in the Maine. 
STEG, s. [stcgge, Icel.] A gander: common in the 
north. 
STEGANO'GRAPHIST, s. [crreyayo? and yoarjia, Gr.] 
One who practises the art of secret writing. Bailey. 
STEG ANCr GRAPH Y, s. [areyavo; and yoaipx, Gr.] 
The art of secret writing by characters or cyphers, intelligi- 
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ble only to the persons who correspond one with another. 
Bailey .—Such occult notes, steganography, polygraphy, 
or magnefical telling of their minds. Burton. 
STEGE, a small sea-port town of Denmark, in the island 
of Moen, with 900 inhabitants; 48 miles south-south-west 
of Copenhagen. 
STEGEBORG, a small town in the south of Sweden, in 
the province of East Gothland, with a well-frequented har¬ 
bour ; 9 miles north of Calmar, and 20 east of Nordkioping. 
STEGNOSIS [2r eyi/oo-n;, Gr.], an obstruction of any 
natural discharge, especially that by the pores. 
STEGNO'TIC, adj. [ cmyvaliKoi ;, Gr.] Binding; ren¬ 
dering costive. Bailey. 
STEGNOTICS, [ 't-reyvotiKa , Gr. formed from o-Teyu, 
constipo, I close,] in Medicine, remedies proper to close and 
stop the orifices of the vessels, or emuncatories, when re¬ 
laxed, stretched, lacerated, &c. 
STEIGE, a village of France, in Alsace, with 900 inha¬ 
bitants. 
STEIGERBERG, a small town of the north of Germany, 
in Hanover, on the Weser; 31 miles west-north-west of 
Hanover. Population 800. 
STEIGERWALD, a mountainous and woody track of the 
Bavarian states, lying along the south of the Maine, to the 
east of the principality of Wurzburg. 
STEIGNTEN, a parish of Wales, in Pembrokeshire, near 
Haverford West. Population 1961. 
STEIN, a small town in the north-east of Switzerland, in 
the canton of Schaffhausen, on the Rhine, where it issues 
from the lake of Zell. Population 1800. Here are some 
vestiges of Roman antiquities; 13 miles west of the town of 
Constance. 
STEIN, a small town of Lower Austria, on the Danube, 
joined to another on the opposite side of the river by a wooden 
bridge. It is 37 miles west-north-west of Vienna, and half 
a mile from Krems. It has only 1000 inhabitants. 
STEIN, a small town of the west of Germany, in Baden ; 
9 miles east of Carlsruhe. Population 1200. 
STEIN, a village of Austrian Illyria, in Carinthia, on the 
Drave; 14 miles north of Laybach. 
STEIN AM ANGER, or Szomrathely, a small town 
of the south-west of Hungary, on the river Guntz ; 68 miles 
south-south-east of Vienna, and 65 south-south-west of Pres- 
burg. It is pleasantly situated in the midst of a plain, but 
is poorly and irregularly built. It is a bishop’s see; and 
the cathedral, the episcopal palace, the seminary, and the 
meeting place of the diets of the county of Eisenburg, form 
a square, which, by its neatness, exhibits a striking contrast 
to the rest of the town. The inhabitants, only 2200 in 
number, are chiefly Catholics. The town contains a number 
of Roman antiquities, having been the ancient Saharia, 
which held the second rank among the Roman colonies in 
Illyria. Lat. 47. 13. 30. N. long. 16. 38. E. 
STEIN AM KIRCHEN, a market town of Austria; 53 
miles west of Vienna. 
STEIN AM RITTEN, a large village and parish of the 
Austrian States, in Tyrol, with 3600 inhabitants; 18 miles 
north of Brixen. 
STEIN AM STEIN, a populous village of the Swiss 
canton of Appenzel; 4 miles east-south-east of St. Gall. 
STEIN-SCHONAU, a small town of the north-west of 
Bohemia, circle of Leutmeritz, with 1600 inhabitants, and 
manufactures of beautiful glass. 
STEIN SEIFEN, a small town of Prussian Silesia, in the 
government of Reichenbach. Population 1000. 
STEINABRUCKL, a small town of Lower Austria, with 
cotton manufactures. 
STEINACH, the name of two small rivers of the west of 
Germany. The one is in the duchy of Coburg, and falls 
into the Saale; the other in the kingdom of Wirtemberg, 
passes by Pubingen, and joins the Neckar. 
STEINACH, a village of Germany, in the duchy of Saxe- 
Meinungen. Population 1100; 25 miles north-west of 
Coburg. 
STEINACH, or Markt-Stejnach, a small town of 
Bavarian 
