. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... impla-cable, he continued his against ]he result was a second andfinal war, which terminated May 4, 1799,by the storming of Scringapatara, the de;ithof Tippoo, who fell in the , and thepolitical extinction of the descendants ofHvder. TIRABOSCIII, Jkromk, an Italianwriter, was born, in 1731, at Bergamo, anddied in 1794, counsellor and librarian to theduke of Modena. H is works are numerousand valuable. .Vmong them are. Memoirsof Modenese writers; and Notices of


. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... impla-cable, he continued his against ]he result was a second andfinal war, which terminated May 4, 1799,by the storming of Scringapatara, the de;ithof Tippoo, who fell in the , and thepolitical extinction of the descendants ofHvder. TIRABOSCIII, Jkromk, an Italianwriter, was born, in 1731, at Bergamo, anddied in 1794, counsellor and librarian to theduke of Modena. H is works are numerousand valuable. .Vmong them are. Memoirsof Modenese writers; and Notices of Paint-ers, Sculptors, kc; but his great produc-tion is The History of Italian Literature,sixteen vols, quarto. TISSOT, Simon , an emi-nent Swiss physician, was born, in 1728,at Grancy, in the Pays de Vaud; studied TOB medieinfl at Montpellier; settled at Lau-sanne, where he became celebrated, partic-ularly for his new method of treating thesmallpox; was for three years medical pro-fessor at Pavia; and died, in 1797, at Lau-sanne. His works were collected by him-self in ten volumes 12mo. TOO 481. TITIAN, whose name was TiziANOVECELLI, the gieatest painter of theVenetian school, was born, in 1477 or1480, at Pieve de Cadore, in Friuli; wasa pupil of Zuccati and Bellini; and im-proved his original style by observing theworks of Giorgione. He was patronisedand highly honoured by Charles V., Phil-ip II., and other princes. His powerscontinued undiminished till almost thelatest period of his existence, and, as hewas indefatigable in his art, and lived tothe age of nearly a hundred, his works arenumerous. They still retain their rankamong the highest efforts of pictorial died of the plague, in 1576. TITUS SABINUS VESPASIANUS,Flavhjs, a Roman emperor, the son ofVespasian, was born a. d. 40. After hav-ing distinguished himself in arms, particu-iarly at the siege of Jerusalem, he ascendedthe throne a. d. 79. His early licentious-ness inspired fears as to his future c


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