Priest, hebraist, and Biblical scholar; b. at Bordeaux, 1 April, 1798; d. at Issy, near Paris, 25 Feb., 1879.

An ancient alphabet of the Slavic languages, also called in Russian bukvitsa.

Consul at Rome during A.D. 91, with Trajan.

Benedictine chronicler; b. in Burgundy before 1000; d. at Cluny about 1050.

Cardinal, scholar, and author, died 1713.

Jesuit priest, novice master, provincial, d. 1811.

A poet and patriot; b. 1809, at Monsumano near Pescia, Italy; d. 31 March, 1850.

A famous architect and painter, the best-known of Raphael's pupils, and the unique representative of the so-called "Roman School"; b. at Rome in 1492; d. at Mantua in 1546.

French rhetorician and critic; born at Cahors, 21 February, 1657; died at Montpellier, 21 February, 1731.

The capital of a province in Sicily.

A titular see in the province of African Tripoli.

A Provençal troubadour, b. about the middle of the twelfth century, at Excideuil in the Viscounty of Limoges.

A noted sculptor of the reign of Louis XIV, b. at Troyes, France, 1630; d. at Paris, 1715.

Known as Père Girard, a Swiss pedagogue, b. at Fribourg, 17 December, 1765; d. there, 6 March, 1850.

Biographical article on the medieval ecclesiastic and writer.

An Italian canonist; b. in 1692; d. in 1775.

Italian dramatist and novelist; b. at Ferrara, Italy, 1504; d. there, 1573.

Commonly called Don Bosco or John Bosco. Founder of the Salesians, d. 1888.

Biography of the Dominican preacher and writer.

Composer, b. at Velletri, near Rome, in 1560; d. at Rome, 7 January, 1625.

A Florentine painter, and founder of the Italian school of painting, b. most probably, in the village of Vespignano near Florence; d. at Milan, 8 Jan., 1337.

Italian painter, b. at Castelfranco in or before 1477; d. in Venice in October or November, 1510.

Neapolitan painter; b. at Naples, 1632; d. in the same place, 12 Jan., 1705.