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» imitated in Italy by Sangallo, no, etc.; it was now by Lescot, Qoujon. de L'Onne, tad some others, succesBfiiUy ■daptea to French taste. The building of the Louvre was carried on with greater or less ability by several masten, and vas fiiuuly completed UDder Napoleon I. Tbe oldest parts of the paJace are considered one of the greatest arehiteotural achievements in France. "If among all the worica of the French Renaissance we wen to seek for the creations which possess in the hi^iest degree qualities which were, so to say, the aim at the Renaissance, i. e. perfect proportion of members and details, we woula always be attracted finally to Lescot a court n the Louvre (Geymitller)

The rest of Lescot a worta peara not to have sought much for opportunities to bu Id Although, accord n^to a poem of Ronsard, he bua ed h mself ■ealously in early youth w th drawing and paint ng an t after his twentieth year w th mathematics and areh lecture Ms wealth and the dut cs of his offices appear subsequently to have interfered with h s artistic activity H s first achievements (1540-45) were the rood-screen in St-Oerma n I'AuzerTois and the Hotel de Ligneris (now Camavalot) n Paris. Here and m the de- mni of the Fountain of N ymphs orlnnocents (1547 0) beagan owes a great part of his moder- ate success to Gou ion's assist- ance. The dassiceJ simplicity of this woric had the misfor- tune to be undervalued during tbe barocco and rococo period, and received properrecognition only from a rat«r ase.

HutTT. 'Ltt Qranat archi(€ctfa (Puis, 1S60); Palubtbe. Archi- UOun dt la RmaiuanH (PoHa, ISM): □ethI'lleh in Handbuch drr Artliilfklar ton Durm «c. II

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Dalmatia' includes the three islands of Hvar (Lesina), the ancient Pharia colonised by the Greeks in 385 b. c; Braif.formerlyBrattiaorBmchia, also colonized by the Greeks; and Lissa, formerly iHaa. The residence is at Leeina, a small town on the iiiland of that name, said to have been Sr^ evangelised by St. Doimus (Domnius), a disciple of St. Peter. The diocese was probably founded about 1145 by Lucius II; its first bishop was Mar- tinus Hanzavim, elected in 1147. Its present binliop, the fifty-first, is Jordanua Zanino^-ic, O.P., conse- crated 19 April, 1903, by Leo XIII. The diocese in- cludes 8 deaneries, 2 vice-deaneries. 28 parishes, 14 chaplaincies and 62,890 faithful. There are several religious orders; Dominicans, Franciscans, Benedic- tine nuns, Sistcre of Charity, and Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. The cathedral (Lombard fa- cade) was built in 1637, and contains a paintinj; by the famous Giacomo Palma. In 1S99 the head of St. Stephen, protomartyr, was given by Piu.s X, then Patriarch of Venice, to the Franciscan Fulgen- tiusCarev, Bishop of Lesinaand Archbishop of L^slcup. Twb^nshtma of tiua diocese were created cardinals: (^vaoni Battiata Pallsvieini in 1S24; and Zaccarias n a gente Delphina in 1553. During the episcopate

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Leolie, .John, Bishop of Ross, Scotland, b. 29 Sep. tember, 1527; d. at Guirtenburg. near Brussels, 30 May, IMti. He was of the ancient House of Lcahe (rf Balquhain, but apparently illegitimate, as in July, 15:^8, a dispensatioQ was granted to him to take orders, notwithstanding thisdofeet. lie was educated first at Aberdeen Un vera tv and afterwards in France, etui ng at Po t ers Toulouse oi d Paris, and grad- uating % Ix-torof laws. Re- prof e^Mor cf canon law at Abir pen was ordained in 15 S prf^ nted to the parson- age of ne, and appointed offic I of the diocese. We finlhn n 1560 named by the Lor Is of the Con^gation to discuss po nts of faith at Edin- burgh aga st Knox and Wil- lock In the following year he went to Fmnce to bring to Scotland the young Queen Mary th whom he wea as- sociated d uring t he years which followed In 1565 she made him a member of her privy CO nc I and in the same year, on the death of Henry Sin- clair, he was nominated Bish- op of Ross. He also held the ', or lord of sBs- co-editor of the " Actis and Constitutiounis of the Realme of Scotland from the Reigne of James I", the work of a commission ap- pointed by the queen, at lua suggestion, to revise and pub- lisn the laws of the kingdom. On Mary's escape from Loch- leven in 1568. she was joined by Leslie, who never wavered in his fidelity to her cause; and he was her principal com- missioner at thi^ abortive conference with Queen Eliiabeth's commissionera ■ct of JIxin,-'s mar^

., . _.. -nprisoned

by "Elizabeth, first at Ely, and then in the Tofrer of London. During his afecnce from Scotland he was deprived of the revenues of his bishopric and was re- duced til great poverty. Theiner prints an interesting letter addressed by him to the pope in 15S0, showing the efforts ho made, though absent from his diocese, to conlirm those wavering in the faith, and recover those who had fallen away. Iii)emted in 1573, but ban- ished from the countrj', he visited various European courts to plead the cause of hb gucen, and finally

bishop, hia mother's lifelong friend and champion, to his former dignities, but he never returned to Scot- land. In letters he is principally remembered as the author of a Latin account of the history of Scotland^ "De origine, moribus, ac rebus gestis Scotije libn decern " (Rome, 1578), aScottish version bvDom E. B. Cody, O.S.B. It comes down to 1571, and in its laU ter part presents a Catholic account of contemporary