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BAD a translation of the "Satires of Juvenal." He was also a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine. He was appointed to the Glasgow medical chair in 1827. He died in London, 1845.—T. F.  BADHAM,, was born in 1805. He came of a family of scholars. His father was professor of medicine in the university of Glasgow, and the author of a spirited translation of Juvenal in Valpy's Classical Library; his brother is one of the most accomplished scholars of our day, and especially noted for his skill in restoring the corruptions in the text of Plato. David Charles Badham was educated at Eton and Emanuel college, Cambridge, whence he went to Pembroke college, Oxford. He became one of the travelling fellows of that university, and was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians. He practised for some time at Paris, and at Rome. Returning to England in 1845, he married a daughter of the late Mr. Deacon Hume of the Board of Trade; and was ordained by the late bishop of Norwich, Dr. Stanley. He held for some time the curacy of Wymondham, Norfolk, and that of East Bergholt, Suffolk. He was for several years one of the most frequent contributors to Blackwood's and Fraser's Magazines: his writings were subsequently reprinted under the title of "Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle." He was also the author of two useful works on "Insect Life," published in 1845, and of the "Esculent Funguses of England." He died in August, 1857, in his fifty-second year.—E. W.  BADIA,, born at Ancona in 1675, a distinguished orator, and doctor of laws. For the space of thirty-eight years he preached in Italy, and also at Vienna. In 1727 he was created by the king of Sardinia, Victor Amadeus, abbot of St. Nicholas; and afterwards refused the bishopric of Placentia. He died in 1751, leaving many works.—A. C. M.  BADIA,, an Italian cardinal, born at Modena in 1483; died in 1547. He was present at Worms in 1540, and wrote a letter on the proceedings of the diet, which has been published.  BADIALE,, an Italian painter and engraver, born at Bologna about 1623; died in 1668. He was a pupil of Flaminio Torre.—R. M.  BADIER,, a French Benedictine monk, born in 1650; died in 1719. He wrote a work, entitled "De la sainteté de l'etat monastique," &c.  BADILE,, an Italian historical painter, born at Verona in 1480; died 1560. He was the uncle and the earliest master of Paolo Veronese. He is considered the first of his school who discarded the old or sacred style, to introduce the full display of expression and life.—R. M.  BADIN,, an English translator, published at London in 1705, "The Commentaries of Cæsar." <section end="368H" /> <section begin="368I" />BADINO,, born at Mondovi, on the 7th of August, 1675. Having entered the church, he gave himself entirely to study, and in a few years obtained, first a professorship in the college where he had been educated, and soon after the rectorship, which dignity he filled for three years. He wrote many poetical compositions, chiefly in Latin, which are highly esteemed. Several scientifical academies inscribed his name on their rolls, and his friendship was courted by the most distinguished personages. At the age of forty-eight, he was re-elected rector, and continued in that office for six years. At the opening of the royal college, King Victor of Savoy appointed him regius professor of eloquence, which appointment he held for 14 years, and died on the 18th of November, 1742.—A. C. M. <section end="368I" /> <section begin="368J" />BADIUS, and, celebrated printers of the fifteenth century. was born in 1462 at the village of Asseche, near Brussels, from which he Latinised his name to that of Ascensius; he was aided not only by his brother, but by his two sons-in-law, Robert Etienne and Michael Vascosan, the latter of whom is said, indeed, to have substituted the modern for the rude old Gothic type. Before he came to Paris to found his celebrated printing establishment, he acted as professor of belles-lettres at Lyons. Amongst his own writings is the "Navicula Stultarum Virginum," of which a translation into his own language appeared in his lifetime. Erasmus speaks in high terms of him. He died in 1535.— was born in Paris about the year 1500; and as he succeeded his brother some thirty-three years, his name is connected with a still greater number of important publications. He was also a good scholar, and made translations into French of some of the writings of Erasmus.—J. F. C. <section end="368J" /> <section begin="368K" />BADIUS,, a Florentine theologian of the second half of the seventeenth century. He published "Constitutiones et Decreta universitatis Florentinæ," &c. <section end="368K" /> <section begin="368L" />BADLAND,, a Nonconformist minister, ejected from Willenhall, Staffordshire, was afterwards pastor of the Presbyterian congregation at Worcester, for whom he drew up the declaration of its religious sentiments, dated 1687. He died May 5, 1698, aged sixty-four. <section end="368L" /> <section begin="368M" />BADOARO,, an Italian diplomatist, founder of the academy Della Fama at Venice, was born in 1518, and died in 1593. He was ten times elected to represent the republic of Venice at the courts of Charles V. and Philip II. <section end="368M" /> <section begin="368N" />BADOARO,, a dramatic writer of the seventeenth century; born at Venice. His principal dramas are—"Elena Rapita," and "Nozze di Enea con Lavinia." <section end="368N" /> <section begin="368O" />BADOARO,, an Italian cardinal, successively patriarch of Venice and bishop of Brescia; died in 1714. He left a work, entitled "Industrie spirituali per ben vivere e santamente morire." <section end="368O" /> <section begin="368P" />BADOARO,, born at Venice from a noble family in 1546, a man of great learning. He is the author of many works of a religious kind, and manuscripts in prose and verse. <section end="368P" /> <section begin="368Q" />BADOERO,, doge of Venice from 939 till the year of his death, 942. He secured by a treaty with Berenger II., king of Italy, the liberties of the republic, and the rights to coin gold and silver. <section end="368Q" /> <section begin="368R" />BADOLET,, a protestant minister and professor of Humanity at Geneva; lived towards the middle of the seventeenth century. His most considerable work is entitled, "Conscientiæ Humanæ Anatomia." <section end="368R" /> <section begin="368S" />BADON,, a French dramatic writer, died in 1849 at too young an age to allow a just opinion of his merits. He wrote, in connection with the more celebrated Frederic Soulié, a comedy in three acts, called "Une Aventure sous Charles IX.," and a piece by himself—"Un Duel sous Richelieu"—of much merit; as well as the romance of "Montbran, or the Huguenots en Dauphiné."—J. F. C. <section end="368S" /> <section begin="368T" />BADOU,, a French theologian, born at Toulouse; died in 1727. He left a work, entitled "Exercises Spirituels," &c. <section end="368T" /> <section begin="368U" />BADRESCHI, surnamed, a native of Barcelona: the age he lived in is uncertain. He is the translator, in the Hebrew language, of the commentary of "Maimonides to Misna," of which a manuscript is preserved in the library of the Vatican. Wolfio, however, states that this manuscript contains only the treatise, נשים Nasim, (Women); and says that Badreschi was the writer of the letter to Rabbi Selemoh Ben Adereth, which is found, with the answer to it, in the edition published at Cracow.—A. C. M. <section end="368U" /> <section begin="368V" />BADUARIUS or PADUARIUS,, an Italian theologian; died at Padua in 1369. He wrote "Quæstiones Philosophiæ et Theologiæ." <section end="368V" /> <section begin="368W" />BADUERO, I., Doge of Venice. He was elected in 864, expelled the Saracens from the coasts of Dalmatia, and was honoured with the title of "Protospatary" by the Emperor Basil I. Died in 881. <section end="368W" /> <section begin="368X" />BADUERO, II., Doge of Venice, elected in 912, obtained for the republic, from Randolph of Burgundy, the right to coin money. He retired into a convent in 932. <section end="368X" /> <section begin="368Zcontin" />BÆBIA,, surnamed also. Cn. Bæbius Pamphilus was consul in the year 182. The other remarkable members of this gens follow in chronological order:—

, one of the ambassadors sent by Scipio to Carthage in 202. He was charged to assume the command of the Roman camp.

, tribune of the people, remarked for his opposition to the war against Philip of Macedon, lived about the year 200.

, was sent into Macedonia, along, with two other commissioners, in the year 186 ., to inquire into the complaints of the Maronites and others against Philip.

, condemned at Rome in 170 ., for having put to death the members of the senate of Ætolia.

, one of three commissioners sent into Macedonia in 168 ., to report on the state of the country previous to the setting out of an expedition under Paulus Emilius.

, tribune of the people, an avowed partisan of Jugurtha.

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