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Rapicio with so much ardour, that at the age of seventeen 
he made a collection of Latin poetical epithets, which was 
afterwards published. Before lie had attained the age of 
twenty he visited Rome, and was much noticed by the poets 
of that city. According to the practice which then pre¬ 
vailed, he changed his baptismal name Pietro into L. Pe- 
treius; but afterwards, returning to Bergamo, and entering, 
in 1524, among the canons-regular of Lateran, he assumed 
that of Basil; devoting his attention to sacred literature, and 
publishing some works on the scriptures. In the progress 
of his life, he frequently changed his residence, and was 
every where respected, on account of his learning and ta¬ 
lents, by the principal scholars of the age. Under the se¬ 
vere decree of pope Paul IV. issued in 1558, which com¬ 
manded, under the threatened penalty of the prison or 
galleys, all the religious to return to the cloisters to which 
they belonged, Zanchi was imprisoned, and fell a sacrifice to 
the rigour of confinement. One of his biographers says, 
that he had few equals in the sweetness, and fewer in the 
elegance of his poetry; specimens of which occur in his 
eight books of poems, one of which bears the title of “ De 
Horto Sophiae,” and describes the most remarkable facts and 
doctrines of the Catholic religion. Some of his poems are 
inserted in the “ Deliciae,” and the “ Carmina Poetarum 
Italorum.” He also published a kind of Lexicon, entitled 
“ Latinorum Verborum ex variis auctoribus Epitome.” Mo- 
rcri. Gen. Biog. 
ZANCHI (Girolamo), an Italian Protestant, was born in 
1516 at Alzano, in the territory of Bergamo, and entered 
among the canons-regular of Lateran at the age of fifteen, 
in which connection he remained for ten years. But Peter 
Martyr having communicated to him, and others of his fra¬ 
ternity, the opinions of the reformers, he departed with him 
from Italy in 1530, and went to Geneva. From Geneva he 
removed to Strasburg upon an invitation to supply a vacancy 
in the professorship of sacred literature, which he accepted in 
1553, and which he occupied for about eleven years. In 
1568 he removed to the theological chair at Heidelberg, 
when he took the degree of doctor. When Frederic III., 
who was a zealous Lutheran, succeeded the elector palatine, 
and removed the Heidelberg professors, Zanchi, declining 
offered settlements at Leyden and Antwerp, took a place in 
count John Casimir’s college at Newstadt. Upon the restora¬ 
tion of the expelled professors, Zanchi, on account of his 
age, was declared “emeritus;” and having lost his sight, 
died at Heidelberg in 1590. 
Highly esteemed among Protestants in general on account 
of his learning and invincible attachment to their principles, 
John Sturmius affirmed of him, “ that he should not be at 
all anxious for the cause of reformed religion, if Zanchius 
alone were to dispute in the council of Trent against all the 
fathers present.” Bay/e. 
ZANCOS, a settlement of Vilcas Huaman, in Peru. 
ZANCUDOS, a missionary settlement of New Granada, in 
the province of San Juan de los Llanos, on the shore of the 
river A pure. 
ZAND, a village in the north-east of the Netherlands, 
with 900 inhabitants; 10 miles east-south-east of Groningen. 
ZANDVORT, a village of the Netherlands, in North Hol¬ 
land ; 5 miles west of Haarlem. Population 800. 
ZANESVILLE, a post town of the United States, and ca¬ 
pital of Muskingum county, Ohio, on the east bank of the 
Muskingum, opposite Putnam. It is a pleasant and flourish¬ 
ing town, and contains a court-house, two banks, two print¬ 
ing offices, a woollen manufactory, two glass manufactories, 
and had, in 1816, 317 houses, many of which are handsome. 
There is a copperas mine near the town; and a copperas ma¬ 
nufactory has lately been established here. Here are two 
bridges erected across the Muskingum. Zanesville is situated 
at the falls of the river, on which are erected numerous mills 
and manufacturing establishments; and it will probably be¬ 
come a large manufacturing town; 60 miles east of Colom- 
bus, 60 north of Marietta, and 70 north-east of Chillicothe. 
Lat. 39. 58. N. long. 82. 3. W. 
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ZANFARA, a kingdom of Central Africa, situated to the 
north of Wangara. It is now united to Guber, and pays tri¬ 
bute to Asben. It was reported to Brown as containing 
silver. 
ZANGUAL, a settlement of Peru, in the province of 
Truxillo. 
ZANGUEBAR. This term, which signifies literally the 
country of the Blacks, has been vaguely applied to a large 
extent of the eastern coast of Africa, between Mozambique 
and the Red Sea. The inhabitants consist of negroes, with a 
number of Arabs settled in the towns. The cities of Quiloa, 
Mombaza, Melinda, and some others, have been visited by 
Europeans; but the interior is entirely unknown. During 
the prosperity of the Portuguese, their empire extended over 
the greater part of this coast; but they have now been gene¬ 
rally obliged to give place to the Imam of Mascat. 
ZANHAGA, or Zenhaga, a name given to the western 
part of the Sahara, bordering on the Atlantic. 
ZANJON, a river of Chili, which runs nearly north, and 
enters the Valdivia. 
ZANJON, Primero, a river of Quito, in the province 
of Mainas, which runs north-north-east, and enters the Ma- 
chapo. 
ZANKARADA, a village of European Turkey, in Greece, 
province of Magnesia, about 9 miles north-east of the small 
town of Propantos. It contains above 400 houses, which 
occupy a large space of ground, being separated, as at Zagora, 
from each other by gardens and rows of chesnut trees. The 
women are employed chiefly in the spinning of cotton; while 
the young men repair to the surrounding districts, in search 
of employment. 
ZANNICHELLI (John Jerome), a physician and natu¬ 
ralist, was born at Modena, in 1662, and settling in the me¬ 
dical department at Venice, he published a work on the pre¬ 
paration of chemical medicines, entitled “ Promptuarium 
Remediorum Chymicorum.” In 1702, he was created, by a 
patent of the duke of Parma, doctor of medicine, surgery, 
and chemistry. He afterwards formed a museum of natural 
history, and made many joumies in order to collect fossils 
and other subjects for this repository. Some of his excur¬ 
sions were undertaken by public authority, as he was nomi¬ 
nated by the chamber of health, physician-naturalist to all 
the states of Venice. He died in 1729. During his life-time 
he published severat tracts relating to botany and lithology ; 
and after his death his son John James edited from his MSS. 
“ Opuscula Botanica Posthuma,” 1730, and “ Istoria della 
Piante che nascono nel lidi intorno a Venizia,” 1735, being 
a description, with figurer, of the plants on the Venetian 
shores. 
ZANNICHELLIA [so named by Micheli, in honour of 
Giov. Jeronymo Zannichelli, an apothecary at Venice, author 
of “ Laboratorium Zanniehellianum Chymicum,” &c.] in 
Botany, a genus of the class monoecia, order monandria, 
natural order of inundatae, naiades (Juss.) —Generic Charac¬ 
ter. Male flower—Calyx none. Corolla none. Stamina : 
filament one, simple, long, erect. Anthers sagittate, ovate, 
erect. Female next the male flower.—Calyx: perianth 
one-leafed, ventricose, three-toothed. Corolla none. Pistil: 
germs four to eight, horned, converging. Styles as many, 
simple, spreading a little. Stigmas ovate, fiat, spreading 
outwards. Pericarp: capsules as many, subfalcate, erect- 
spreading, beaked with a reclining style, tubercled at the 
back, crusty-coriaceous, compressed, one-celled, valveiess. 
Seeds solitary, oblong, gibbous on one side. Male flowers 
solitary, scattered. Calyx : perianth one-leafed, with the 
mouth oblique, sharp behind, quite entire.— Essential Cha¬ 
racter. Male—Calyx none. Corolla none. Female—Ca¬ 
lyx one-leafed. Corolla none. Germs four or more. Seeds 
as many, pedicelled. Stigmas peltate. 
Zannichellia palustris, or horned pondweed.—Root an¬ 
nual, fibrous, very slender. It has the habit of a Potamoge- 
ton, slender and much branched, the stem leafy and smooth. 
Leaves somewhat whorled, growing two, three, or four out of 
the same sheathing stipule, linear, quite entire, acute, grass- 
like 
