General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . him was chiefly owing the erection of a mag-nificent edifice for the university of the death of his uncle, he retired to hisarchbishopric, and chiefly employed himself inthe reformation of religious orders, and othercares relative to the good of the church and thehappiness of the people. He visited the re-motest parts of his diocese, and carried intothem pastoral consolations of every kind. In acruel pes
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . him was chiefly owing the erection of a mag-nificent edifice for the university of the death of his uncle, he retired to hisarchbishopric, and chiefly employed himself inthe reformation of religious orders, and othercares relative to the good of the church and thehappiness of the people. He visited the re-motest parts of his diocese, and carried intothem pastoral consolations of every kind. In acruel pestilence he assisted the poor personallyand by his clergy, and sold his goods to givethem relief. He held several provincial coun-cils and synods, in which he passed the most sa-lutary regulations for church-government. Intlie midst of these meritorious labours he wascut off at the age of forty-seven, in Paul V. in 1610, bestowed on him thehonours of canonisation, which few in the laterages seem better to have deserved. This cardi-nal left a great number of writings on subjectsof faith and morals ; of which five volumesfolio were printed at Milan in 1747. A large. CAROLVS BORROM^VS S. R. E . MEDIOLAN. Stemmate darus erat, mus at, ricjidusque fttelleslufzitice; hauA reilo Juxit auaritid. •In Je dtirus item nimiutn, nimiumque Jeuertis:Di/tus vt ante ohitum San a us, et a flu prol^ant. B O R { 241 ) BOS collection of liis MS. letters is prcsen-ed in tliatcity. He wrote also, Acta Jicclesia; Medio-lanensis, fol. 1599. Morcri. Tiraboschi. Hist.—A. BORROMINI, Fraxcis, an Italian arclii-tcct, remarkable for liis singular and fantastictaste, was born in i 599 at Bissona in the dioceseof Conio, where his father followed the sameprofession. He was sent at nine years of age tostudy sculpture at Milan, and thence to Rome,where Maderno his relation was the architectof St. Peters. Under his patronage he turnedhis attention principally to architectu
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