dto uphold the old methods of Italian dramatic art, and to resist theefforts of Goldoni and Chiari to introduce French models; these playsdealing with wonderful adventures and enchantments in the manner ofEastern tales ("dramatic fairy tales," he called them), enjoyed a widepopularity, and spread to Germany and France. Schiller translated"Turandot" (1722-1806).—His elder brother, Count Gasparo Gozzi, wasan active littérateur; the author of various translations, essays onliterature, besides editor of a couple of journals; was press censor inVenice for a time, and was in his later days engaged in school anduniversity work (1713-1786).

ted in 122; his measures of reform were opposed andundone by the Senate, and being declared a public enemy he was driven tobay, his friends rallying round him in arms, when a combat took place inwhich 3000 fell, upon which Gracchus made his slave put him to death;"overthrown by the Patricians," he is said, "when struck with the fatalstab, to have flung dust toward heaven, and called on the avengingdeities; and from this dust," says one, "there was born Marius—not soillustrious for exterminating the Cimbri as for overturning in Rome thetyranny of the nobles."

yne, andThalia: Thalia, the blooming one, or life in full bloom; Euphrosyne, thecheerful one, or life in the exuberance of joy and sympathy; and Aglaia,the shining one, or life in its effulgence of sunny splendour and glory.But these three are one, involved each in the other, and made perfect inone. There is not Thalia by herself, or Aglaia, but where one truly is,there, in the same being also, the other two are. They are three sisters,as such always inseparable, and in their inseparability alone are Graces.Their secret is not learned from one, but from all three; and they givegrace only with fulness, buoyancy, and radiancy of soul, or life, unitedall in one. They are in essence the soul in its fulness of life andsympathy, pouring itself rhythmically through every obstruction, beforewhich the most solid becomes fluid, transparent, and radiant of itself.

t was brought to England by Joseph, it is alleged, but aftera term disappeared; to recover it formed an object of quest to theKnights of the Round Table, in which Sir Galahad succeeded, when it wasseen by certain other knights, but it has not been seen since, for noneis permitted to see it or can set eye on it but such as are of a pureheart.

ndsoon established himself in the king's favour, but an intrigue with oneof the royal mistresses brought about his exile from France; at theprofligate court of Charles II of England he found a warm welcome andcongenial surroundings; left memoirs which were mainly the work of hisbrother-in-law, Anthony Hamilton, and which give a marvellously witty andbrilliant picture of the licentiousness and intrigue of the 17th-centurycourt life (1621-1707).

san area of 4928 sq. m.; Granada (72), the capital, is beautifullysituated at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, on an eminence 2245 ft. abovesea-level, 140 m. SE. of Seville; the Jenil flows past it; has a largeuniversity, a cathedral, and monastery; was founded by the Moors in the8th century, but has been largely rebuilt on modern principles.