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UGO preferments that were offered him. He died on the 19th May, 1670. The full title of the work above mentioned is "Italia Sacra, sive de Episcopis Italiæ, et insularum adjacentium, rebusque ab iis præclare gestis, deducta serie ad nostram usque ætatem, opus singulare, autore Ferdinando Ughello, Florentino Abbate S.S. Vincentii et Anastasii ad Aquas Salvias, ordinis Cisterciensis," Rome, 9 vols. folio, the first of which appeared in 1643 and the last in 1662. A revised, corrected, and enlarged edition, under the care of Nicholas Coletus, was published at Venice in 10 folio vols., between the years 1717 and 1722. This edition, however, is very incorrectly printed, a fault from which the third edition (by the Abbé del Riccio, Florence, 1763, &c.) is said to be free. An abridgment with the following title appeared at Rome in 1704, "Italia Sacra R.P. Ferdinandi Ughelli restricta, aucta, veritati magis commendata, operâ, et studio D. Julii Ambrosii Lucentii, ejusdem ordinis Abbatis. Opus singulare, tribus tomis novissime distinctum, subsequente quarto, in quo ecclesiarum origines, urbium conditiones, jura, principium donationes, et recondita monumenta proferuntur, cum certis notis et præclaris animadversionibus." The other works of Ughelli are, "Cardinalium Elogia, qui ex sacro ordine Cisterciense floruere," Florence, 1624; "Columnensis familiæ Cardinalium imagines ad vivum expressæ et æri incisæ, summatimque elogiis exornatæ a Ferdinando Ughello," Rome, 1650; "Difesa della nobilita Napolitana, contra il libro di Francesco Elio Marchesi, tradotta del Latino di Carlo Borelli," Rome, 1655; "Albero e istoria della familia de' Conti di Marsciano," Rome, 1667; "Genealogia de' Capisucchi," Rome, 1553.—R. M., A.  UGOLET,, a learned Italian, died about the beginning of the sixteenth century. He was a native of Parma. We are told by Pierius Valerianus in his book, De Litteratorum Infelicitate, that Ugolet for many years lived a gay life at the courts of kings and princes, but that after the death of his chief patron, Matthias, king of Hungary (6th April, 1490), he lost the favour of the great, and returned to his native town, where he earned a scanty and precarious livelihood as a teacher of youth. Ugolet had commenced several works, which his great poverty prevented him from finishing; among others, an annotated edition of Plautus, his preparations for which were afterwards made use of by Panetius in his edition of that poet, Venice, 1518.—R. M., A.  UHLAND,, an eminent German lyrical poet, was born at Tübingen, 26th April, 1787, and died at the same place, 13th November, 1862. In the university of his native town he devoted himself to the study of law, and was admitted to the bar. In 1812 he settled at Stuttgart, and soon after, when the king of Wurtemberg was about to grant a constitution, descended into the political arena. By his songs, partly published on broadsides, and first collected in 1815, he fought for "the good old right," and gave utterance to the feelings and wishes of the people. In 1819 he was chosen a member of the Wurtemberg senate, where his activity as a champion of true constitutionalism was only inferior to his activity and influence as a poet. In 1830 he was appointed professor extraordinary of German literature at Tübingen; but when in 1833 government refused him leave to attend the session, he resigned his professorship, and returned to his seat in the chamber. The exertions of the opposition, however, proved of no avail, and Uhland retired into private life in 1839 along with his colleagues. He left Tübingen only once more, when, in 1848, he represented his native town in the Frankfort national assembly. We need scarcely add, that here too he sided with the left. As a poet Uhland stands at the head of the Suabian school, and combines romantic feeling with classical form and national substance; his ballads and love-songs will secure his immortality. His two dramas, "Herzog Ernst von Schwaben" and "Ludwig der Baier," want real dramatic life and warmth. Of much greater value are his learned monographs on Walter von der Vogelweide, and on the Myth of Thor, and his admirable collection of old high and low German popular songs, which has the only defect of not being completed.—K. E.  UKO-WALLES, a fanatical sectary of the earlier part of the seventeenth century. He revived the error of the Cainists (a small Gnostic sect of the second century) respecting Judas Iscariot, saying that that traitor and the Jews who put our Lord to death cannot be affirmed to have been wicked men. Uko-Walles was an illiterate peasant, and a native of the province of Groningen, from which he was banished on account of his heretical opinions in 1637. After this he wandered about Holland, propagating his new doctrines, and making here and there a few proselytes. Jan Lubbert Alphusius, a Dutch minister, thought him formidable enough to deserve a written refutation. Uko-Walles, who had meanwhile become an author, replied to the strictures of his opponent, and continued up till his end to print little books in defence of his peculiar sentiments. He made a great noise for some time in Eastern Friesland. It is thought that he died about 1651. He left followers in several parts of Holland.—R. M., A.  ULADERACK,, a Flemish scholar, was born at Giffen or Geffen in Brabant, and is said to have been the natural son of a noble belonging to the same place—a circumstance which made him in after life desirous of concealing his birth. He was for some time principal of the school of Amersfort, whence he removed to become superior of the college of Bois-le-duc. In this situation he remained ten years, and for the long period of forty years he lectured on eloquence in the same town. He also taught the Hebrew and Greek tongues. He died at Bois-le-duc on the 15th July, 1601, and was buried in the cathedral church. Uladerack's favourite author was Cicero, whose works he explained and illustrated with an unflagging enthusiasm. He was author of a number of works, of which the following may be mentioned—"Epitome dialectices Hunnæi," Bois-le-duc; "Polyonima Ciceroniana," Anvers, 1597; "Formulæ Ciceronianæ conscribendis epistolis utiles," Anvers; "Marcii Plauti florum libri iv., cum scholiis," Anvers, 1597.—R. M., A.  ULEUGHELS,, a celebrated painter, was born at Paris, and died at Rome on the 10th December, 1737, aged about seventy years. He was a chevalier of the order of St. Michael, and member of the Academy of Painting at Paris, where he had been for some time professor. In 1725 he succeeded Charles-François Poërson as director of the Academy of Painting which the French king maintained at Rome, a post which he filled with much honour till the time of his death. His pictures, which are mostly tableaux de chevalet or easel-pieces, were considerably valued. They remind one somewhat of the manner of Paul Veronese. Uleughels published at Florence, in 1735, an edition of Dolce's Dialogue on Painting, with a French version. This work is entitled "Dialogue sur la peinture de Louis Dolce, intitule l'Aretin, dans lequel on traite de l'excellence de la peinture, et de toutes les qualités nécessaires au bon peintre; avec les examples des peintres anciens et modernes; a la fin on y parle du mérite des ouvrages du divin Titien." The translation is said to be both inelegant and incorrect.—R. M., A.  ULFELD, the name of one of the most ancient and celebrated families of Denmark:—, the first of the family we shall notice, was a senator of the kingdom, and in 1578 was sent by Frederick II. as ambassador to the court of Muscovy. He published an account of his journey, an interesting narrative, which Goldast has printed in his collection. He also wrote lives of some of the Danish kings.—His son,, lord of Urip and Tregeskoe, studied at Basle and other universities towards the close of the sixteenth century, and after returning from his travels entered the public service of his country under Christian IV. He was made a councillor of state, and was frequently employed in diplomatic missions. On the death of Haalde Huitfeld he became chancellor of the kingdom. He concluded an alliance between Denmark and the Low Countries in 1621, and again in 1625, and assisted in framing the treaty which was signed about the same time between the Netherlands and England. He died on the 24th June, 1630. The chancellor left two sons, James and Cornifex or Comfits. The former lost his life while still a young man, in Calenberg.—, the second, was one of the most remarkable men of his time. Born of one of the highest families in the realm, endowed with brilliant talents, possessed of all those accomplishments which distinguish the courtier, and while still a youth dignified with the title of count by the emperor of Germany, he soon found himself the most powerful man in Denmark. The king. Christian IV., whose prime favourite he was, intrusted him with the highest offices in the state, together with the vice-royalty of Norway, and gave him, moreover, his daughter Frederica Leonora in marriage. Frederica was one of the children born to that sovereign by Christina Monch, a woman of rank whom he had clandestinely taken to wife after the death of his queen, and whom he subsequently wished to repudiate. The death of his father-in-law, however, put a period to the power and greatness of Count Ulfeld. Frederick II., son and successor of Christian, soon became jealous of his influence and ambition. The unbending determination to uphold the privileges 