Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . n Italy; born in Flor-ence between 1382 and 1387. His firstgreat works in marble were statues of and St. Mark, in the church of in his native town, in an outsideniche of which is also his famous statueof St. George. Along with his friendBrunelleschi he made a journey to Rometo study its art treasures. On his returnhe executed for his patrons, Cosmo andLorenzo de Medici, a marble monumentto their father and mother, which is ofhigh merit. Statues of St. Jo


Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . n Italy; born in Flor-ence between 1382 and 1387. His firstgreat works in marble were statues of and St. Mark, in the church of in his native town, in an outsideniche of which is also his famous statueof St. George. Along with his friendBrunelleschi he made a journey to Rometo study its art treasures. On his returnhe executed for his patrons, Cosmo andLorenzo de Medici, a marble monumentto their father and mother, which is ofhigh merit. Statues of St. John, of Ju-dith, David, and St. Cecilia are among hisleading works. He died in Florence in1466. DONATI, GIAMBATTISTA (do-nate), an Italian astronomer; born in Pisa,in 1826; was appointed in 1852 assistantat the observatory in Florence, of whichhe became director in 1864. Here he dis-covered, inter alia, the brilliant comet of1858, which is known as Donatis afterward was instrumental in erect-ing the fine observatory at Arcetri, nearFlorence, and constructed a spectroscopeof 25 prisms. He died Sept. 20, DONATELLO DONATIST, one of a sect of schis-matics in Africa, the followers of Dona-tus. Bishop of Casa Nigra, in sect arose in A. D. 311, when Caecili-anus was elected Bishop of Carthage, andconsecrated by the African bishops alone,without the concurrence of those of Nu-midia. The people, resenting this, re-fused to acknowledge Caecilianus, and setup Majorinus, who was then consecratedby Donatus. The Donatists held thatChrist, though of the same substancewith the Father, yet was less than theFather; they also denied the infallibilityof the Church, which they said had fallenaway in many particulars. They werecondemned in a council held at Rome A. , also in another at Aries in the fol-lowing year; and a third time, in A. , at Milan, before Constantine theGreat. At the end of the 4th centurythey had a large number of churches,but soon after began


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