General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . dertook to compose the piece inquestion, which he finished in a short time. The Ricciardetto, to which the authors Grccisedname of Carteromaco is usually annexed, is apoem of thirty cantos in ottava rima, full ofthe extravagance and disorder natural to onewho sits down with the purpose of saying allthat comes into his head, but pleasant and fan-ciful, and written in easy verse. It was firstpublished in 1738, quarto, a
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . dertook to compose the piece inquestion, which he finished in a short time. The Ricciardetto, to which the authors Grccisedname of Carteromaco is usually annexed, is apoem of thirty cantos in ottava rima, full ofthe extravagance and disorder natural to onewho sits down with the purpose of saying allthat comes into his head, but pleasant and fan-ciful, and written in easy verse. It was firstpublished in 1738, quarto, and since at Paris,1768, three volumes twelves. Fortiguerra alsowrote a translation in verse of the comedies of-Terence, printed at Urbino in 1736 with theLatin text. Nouv. Diet. Hist.—A. FORTIUS, Joachim. See Ringelbergius. FOSCARINI, Michael, a Venetian se-nator,born in 1628, was employed by the repub-lic to continue the history of Venice, by work was published in 1696, and forms thetenth volume of the Collection of Historiansof Venice, 1718, quarto. He is not reckonedequal to his predecessor as a writer, yet his do-cuments are of good authority. Two novels of. *r /^n
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