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LEFT PISAGUA 258 PISISTBATUS Pisa lost its independence in 1406 the PISCATAQTJA, a river which consti- university closed its doors, but was re- tutes part of the boundary between established by the famous Lorenzo de' Maine and New Hampshire, and forms Medici a few years later. In 1544 the at its mouth the excellent harbor of first botanical institute in Europe was Portsmouth. founded here The University suffex-ed pigCES, in astronomy, the 12th and m prestige durmg the two succeeding ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ zodiacal constellations. It centuries and not until Grand Duke Leo- j ^ j^^ constellation, bounded on the pold of Tuscany m 1808 endowed it ^ ^ ^^.^^ ^^^ Triangulum, on the W. handsomely did it recover. During the ^y Aquarius and Pegafus, on the N. by reaction in 1849-1850 in Italy it was /^dromeda, and on the S. by Cetus. forced to close down some of its depart- ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ represented on celes- ments, but since that time it has been ^.^^ ^^^ ^^ ^ separated some reckoned among the greatest of Italian distance from each other, and as having f.Tn,^f Wn 9no J7« JJl.r.! . ^7^09 tl^eir tails connected by a string. One nSlks ^IBlf ma^uscS^ ^^ "^der the right arm of And?omeda, pamphlets and l,bl4 manuscripts. ^^^ ^^j^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^j^^ ^^ Pegasus. PISAGUA, a small port of the now About 40 stars are visible to the naked Chilean province of Tarapaca, 40 miles eye. Bode marks the position of 257; N. of Iquique. It was bombarded and the largest. Alpha Piscium, is of magni- was the scene of much fighting during tude 31/2, and is a double star, one con- the Chilean civil war in 1891. stituent being pale green and the other blue. Also the portion of the ecliptic PISANO, the surname of several dis- from which precession has made the con- tinguished artists of Pisa, very impor- stellation move away. The sun enters tant in the early history of art in Italy, it, crossing the equator, at the vernal GiUNTA PiSANO, or GiUNTA Di GiusTiNO equinox. of Pisa, is the earliest known Tuscan ^ „ „ p painter, lived in the 13th century. f^^^^^"^^^"^^' ^^® *^^^ *""^" Giunta was anterior to Cimabue, and to t^^^* him belongs the merit of reviving paint- PISGAH, a name that seems to have ing in Italy. NiccoLA Pisano, born applied generally to the mountain range about 1206. He was equally distin- or district to the E. of the Lower Jor- guished as sculptor and architect, and dan, identical with, or itself a part of, must hold the same rank in the former the mountains of Abarrim (Deut. xxxii: art that Giunta does in painting. He 49; xxxiv: 1), one of the summits of distinguished himself as early as 1225 which is Mount Nebo (the modern at Bologna, where he executed the tomb Neba), 2,644 feet above the level of the of San Domenico. Niccola was also a Mediterranean. From this point Moses great architect; he executed the church enjoyed his glimpse of the Promised of the Frari at Venice; he was the pi- Land, in early spring, oneer of the Renaissance in Italy, in —^c,„^-^ j- 4. • 4. j? 4.1, a 4? sculpture and in architecture. He died x,^^?,?^^'/^..?'?'^*/^;,.'^*^^ f^ in 1278. Giovanni Pisano, the son and fe''*^^, (British Beluchistan after the assistant of Niccola, and likewise one Afghan War), just N. of Quetta which of the greatest of the early sculptors and has been governed by a political agent architectsof Italy; born ii Pisa in 1240, ^^ *^« rfr^^T?°.^f"^r^^ of 1".?^ since died in Pisa in 1320, and was placed in ^^^ J^"^ ^"V^ occupied it on ac- the same tomb with his father in the count of its great strategical importance ; cemetery of Campo Santo, which he de- '* 's the meeting-place of several roads, signed. Andrea Pisano was another PT^acticable .for troops but ^ot for early artist of Pisa, but nearly a century wheeled carnages, leading from Smd and later than Giunta: he was a sculptor and ^^^^ J^ Kandahar. The district- architect, and the friend of Giotto An- ^''^^'- ?'^°? "Ij^^'-' ,^^^^f ^«^' 5,000 feet- drea was born about 1270. Of several consists of alluvial valleys separated by works still extant by Andrea, the ^^!JS^ ^^ ^'^J^ 1^^ ^^^'°^! sloping S. W bronze gates of the Baptistery of St. ^""^ ^'"^"^/^Q^yi iTrllT^f '""/^t^" ^ !l John at Florence are the most impor- ^^^^^ N and S 11,000 feet. The peo- tant. These two gates are still perfect; P^^' P^^?^ ,^^"^^<^' Partly nomad, grow the exact date of their execution is dis- ^^f^^' J^^^^^' ^'^^^'l; "f'"^*' ^^T^'P puted, whether they were finished in watermelons, and muskmelons, and trade 1330, or only commenced in that year ^" ^^^'^^ *^ ^"<^'^' ^^P' ^^^"^ ^^^'^^^• The city gates and towers were also of PISISTBATUS, a citizen of Athens his designing, as well as several impor- who raised himself to the sovereign au- tant buildings. He died in Florence, in thority in the time of Solon (to whom 1349. he was related) 560 B. c. Compelled to