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81REGILLUS, LAKE — celebrated in ancient Roman history as the scene of a great Roman victory over the Latins in 496 B.C.; site probably near the modern town of Frascati …
82RITTER, KARL — celebrated geographer, born at Quedlinburg; the founder of comparative geography; professor of geography at Berlin; his chief works Geography in its Relation to Nature, and the History of Man (1779 1859) …
83RIVIÈRE, BRITON — celebrated painter of animals, born in London; among his pictures, which are numerous, are Daniel in the Lions Den, Ruins of Persepolis, Giants at Play, and Væ Victis ; b. 1840 …
84RONSARD, PIERRE — celebrated French poet, born near Vendôme; was for a time attached to the Court; was for three years of the household of James V. of Scotland in connection with it, and afterwards in the service of the Duke of Orleans, but having lost his… …
85ROSSINI, GIOACCHINO — celebrated Italian composer of operatic music, born at Pesaro; his operas were numerous, of a high order, and received with unbounded applause, beginning with Tancred, followed by Barber of Seville, La Gazza Ladra, Semiramis, William Tell,… …
86SEBILLOT, PAUL — celebrated French folk lorist; b. 1843 …
87SISMONDI, JEAN CHARLES LÉONARD SIMONDE DE — celebrated Swiss historian, born at Geneva; son of a Protestant clergyman of Italian descent; the family fortune was lost in the troublous days of the French Revolution, and exile in England and Italy followed, but in 1800 Sismondi returned to …
88SISTINE CHAPEL — celebrated chapel of the Vatican at Rome, constructed by order of Pope Sixtus IV., and decorated with frescoes by Michael Angelo, representing a succession of biblical subjects, including among others the Creation of the World, the Creation of …
89THEMISTOCLES — celebrated Athenian general and statesman; rose to political power on the ostracism of Aristides, his rival; persuaded the citizens to form a fleet to secure the command of the sea against Persian invasion; commanded at Salamis, and routed the …
90VAUVENARGUES, MARQUIS DE — celebrated French essayist, born at Aix, Provence, poor, but of an old and honourable family; entered the army at 18, served in the Austrian Succession War, resigned his commission in 1744, settled in Paris and took to literature; his… …
