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TRI 1746 he went to Dresden, where he held a court appointment. Three years later he accepted a professorship in the university of Wittenberg, which he retained until his death in May, 1782. Triller was a laborious commentator on the ancients. A great part of his life was employed on an edition of Hippocrates, of which he only published a specimen. His principal original work was on pleurisy, Frankfort, 1740. He wrote Latin poems on medicine, and was also a cultivator of German poetry. He was also the author of a number of treatises on medical antiquities. A complete list of his works is given in the Biographic Médicale. It occupies two pages.—F. C. W.  TRIMMER,, author of a number of popular books for the young, was born at Ipswich on the 6th of January, 1741. Her father was Mr. Joshua Kirby, author of Dr. Brooke Taylor's Method of Perspective Made Easy, and of The Perspective of Architecture. He subsequently removed to London on becoming tutor in perspective to George III., then prince of Wales; and from the year 1759 lived at Kew, having been appointed clerk of the works at the palace at that place. It was while residing here that Miss Kirby became acquainted with Mr. Trimmer, to whom she was married at the age of twenty-one. For the next twelve years she was wholly occupied with her domestic duties, her literary labours not having commenced till about the year 1780. It was, we are told, the example of Mrs. Barbauld that first led her to write books. Her first publication was a small volume, entitled, an "Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature." It was followed by her "Sacred History, Selected from the Scriptures, with Annotations and Reflections adapted to the Comprehension of Young Persons," 1782-84; "The Economy of Charity," addressed to ladies, 1786, and republished with additions and alterations in 1801; "The Family Magazine," from which were afterwards published in a collected form, a seines of "Instructive Tales;" Illustrations of the Old and New Testaments, and of the Histories of Rome and England, said to have been suggested by the Adele et Theodore of Madame de Genlis; the "Guardian of Education;" "A Comparative View of the New Plan of Education," &c., 1806. Her last publication was a volume of "Family Sermons," selected and abridged from the most eminent divines. Mrs. Trimmer died suddenly, while sitting in her study chair, on the 15th of December, 1810. In 1814 was published an Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer, 2 vols., 8vo.  TRINCAVELLI, TRINCAVELLA, or TRINCAVELA, , a physician of great classical acquirements, was born at Venice in 1496. He studied at Padua and Bologna. At the latter university he acquired such a mastery over the Greek language and literature, that his assistance in the elucidation of difficult passages was occasionally sought by the professors. At the end of seven years he returned to Padua, where he graduated, and then settled at Venice. Here he succeeded Sebastian Foscarini in the chair of philosophy, and obtained a lucrative practice. It was at this period that he published the works of several Greek authors from original MSS., which had previously been known only by imperfect Latin translations. These were, Themistii Orationes, 1534, folio; Joannes Grammaticus Philoponus, 1534, folio; Epicteti Enchiridion cum Arriani Comment., 1535, 8vo; Hesiod, 1536, 4to. He was intrusted by the Venetian government with the treatment of an epidemic which had broken out in the island of Murano, and his success was so marked that on his return he was received with a sort of ovation. In 1551 he was induced to leave Venice for Padua, where he succeeded J. B. Montanus in the chair of medicine. This change was made at a considerable pecuniary loss, but the senate increased his annual stipend from nine hundred and fifty to sixteen hundred crowns in consideration of the sacrifice he had made. He died at Venice in 1568. Trincavelli has the merit of being one of the first scholars who introduced the writings of the Greek medical authors into the Italian schools of medicine. Previously they had been chiefly known through the medicine of the Arabian writers. His medical works (Opera Omnia) were published at Lyons in 1586; at Venice in 1599. His original treatises are now only of antiquarian interest; but he published commentaries on various parts of the writings of Galen, Avicenna, and Hippocrates. He also edited Stobæus. In practice he is said to have adhered principally to the Arabian doctrines.—F. C. W.  TRINIUS,, an eminent German naturalist, was born at Eisleben on 7th March, 1778, and died at St. Petersburg on 12th March, 1844. He devoted attention early to botany, and more particularly to grasses, on which he published several valuable works. The chief of these are—"Fundamenta Agrostographiæ," and "Species Graminum." The latter is in three volumes folio, and is illustrated by plates. He resided long in St. Petersburg, and was a member of the Academy. He was director of the botanical museum, which was enriched by him by the addition of five thousand species of grasses. He was admired for his varied accomplishments, and for his depth of intellect. He was also a man of amiable disposition and agreeable manners.—J. H. B.  * TRIQUETI,, Baron de, an eminent French sculptor, was born at Conflans (Loiret) in 1802. He was a pupil of the painter Hersent, but he studied sculpture as well as painting, and at the Exposition of 1831 sent contributions in each art. The success of his group of "The Death of Charles the Bold" and the award of the second prize in sculpture, decided him to adopt sculpture as his profession. Baron de Triqueti has produced a large number of works in marble and bronze in the various branches of sculpture: groups, statues, and rilievi of religious subjects for church decorations and monuments; classical subjects; historical, both native and foreign, as "Genevieve de Brabant," and "Sir Thomas More before his Execution;" numerous portrait-statues, and busts; fountains, vases, &c. He has a high reputation in France, and he has received several commissions from England. He has occasionally contributed to the exhibitions of our Royal Academy, his latest contribution being, in 1862, a bronze group of "Dante and Virgil." Baron de Triqueti received the first prize of sculpture in 1839, and the cross of the legion of honour in 1842.—J. T—e.  TRISSINO,, poet; born of noble parentage at Vicenza, 8th July, 1478; died in Rome, December, 1550. He has left an epic poem, "L'Italia liberata dai Goti," constructed on the Homeric model; "Sofonisba," a tragedy of classical character; "La Poetica," a treatise on the poetic art; and other works. He also proposed certain additions to the Italian alphabet, somewhat in the phonetic style; and has been reckoned the originator of versi sciolti (blank verse).—C. G. R.  TRISTAN DA CUNHA, a Portuguese navigator, who sailed from Lisbon in 1506 with a squadron of fifteen vessels, intended to cruize in the Red Sea, and discovered the three islands which bear his name, off the Cape of Good Hope. He explored a portion of Madagascar, and took possession of the island of Socotra. Leaving his second in command, Alfonso d'Albuquerque, to cruize in the Red Sea, Da Cunha proceeded to Cochin, and embarked in an expedition against Calicut, which was so far successful that he returned to Portugal with five richly-laden ships. He was appointed ambassador to Leo X. in 1515, and appears to have died about 1536. An account of his expedition was compiled by De Barros, and published by order of the king, and a translation was published at Leyden in 1706.—F. M. W.  TRITHEMIUS,, a learned Benedictine, was born in 1462 at Tritenheim, in the diocese of Treves, and was educated at Treves and Heidelberg. He was made abbot of Spanheim, in the diocese of Mentz, in 1483, and died in 1516. He wrote a considerable number of works, amongst which may be mentioned those "On the Illustrious Ecclesiastical Writers;" "On the Illustrious Men of Germany;" and "On the Illustrious Men of the Benedictine Order." <section end="447H" /> <section begin="447I" />TRIVET,, a learned English dominican friar, the son of Sir Thomas Trivet, one of the justices in Eyre in the reign of Henry III., was born in Norfolk about 1258, and was educated at a dominican convent in London, and at the universities of Oxford and Paris. On his return to England he was elected prior of the religious house in which his early years were passed, and continued to fill that post up to the time of his death, which took place in 1328. Trivet was author of several works, including commentaries on the Holy Scriptures and on St. Augustine's writings; on the Problems of Aristotle, the Metamorphoses of Ovid, the Tragedies of Seneca, the works of Böethius, Livy, and Juvenal; and some scientific treatises, the MSS. of which are still extant in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge. The work by which Trivet is now best remembered, is a history of England about the period in which he himself flourished, entitled "Annales Sex Regum Angliæ." It was published by Anthony Hall at Oxford in 1719.—F. <section end="447I" /> <section begin="447Zcontin" />TRIVULZIO: a patrician family of Milan, prolific of noteworthy members:— (1447) with several of his brothers opposed the accession of Francesco Sforza to the <section end="447Zcontin" />