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URR he is said to have made his escape to the continent, and to have died, in his forty-eighth year, of excessive joy on hearing of the restoration of Charles II. Sir Thomas was unquestionably a most extraordinary man. Both his inventive powers and his learning were of a very high order, but disfigured by strange incongruities, moral as well as intellectual. "The character of the humorist, the braggadocio, the schemer, the wit, the pedant, the patriot, the soldier, and the courtier were all intermingled in his, and together formed a character which can hardly ever be equalled for excess of singularity or excess of humour, for ingenious wisdom or entertaining folly."—(Dr. Irving's Literary Scotchmen of the last four centuries. Hugh Miller's Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland.)—J. T.  URREA, the name of a celebrated Spanish family who flourished during the reigns of Ferdinand, and Isabella, and Charles V., and who, like several other families belonging to the same country in that age, were distinguished for their services in high places in the state and in the army, and also for their success in letters. The first of the name that rose to eminence was , who was created count of Aranda in 1488. His two sons, and, were both lovers of letters, and both authors. The former, however, was not imbued with the poetical spirit in such a degree as to be able to free himself from the affectations and follies which characterized the poetry of his times. But Pedro had a true vein of poetry, as any one may see who shall turn over the leaves of the "Cancionero de las Obras de Don Pedro Manuel de Urrea," Laguño, 1513. This folio volume, which is dedicated by the author to his widowed mother, contains, besides a considerable number of smaller poems, a translation into good Castilian verse of the first act of the celebrated prose dramatic story, entitled La Celestina. Some of the smaller poems are very sweet and natural, while they are all touched with the chivalrous and romantic feeling that characterized the noble spirits of that age. Ticknor has translated (Hist. Span. Lit., i. 375) a particularly beautiful ballad, which he says records the first love of Urrea's youth, when a deep distrust of himself seemed to be too strong for a passion which was yet evidently one of great tenderness.—The only other member of this family whom we shall mention, is. He was a favoured soldier of the Emperor Charles V., and occupied for some time the important situation of viceroy of Apulia. He made a translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, which enjoyed, if we may believe Cervantes, a much greater popularity than it deserved; the remarks made on it by the curate in the celebrated scrutiny of Don Quixote's library being the reverse of complimentary. This translation was published at Lyons in 1550. It is severely handled also by Clemencin, in his commentary on the passage in Don Quixote above referred to. In 1566 Geronimo published his dialogue on true military honour, "Diàlogo de la Verdadera Honra Militar, por Gerónimo Zimenez de Urrea." It is written in a pleasant and easy style, and contains a great many interesting anecdotes and stories, such as are of considerable use in helping us to revive the lineaments of an age so far gone into the past. One of the most amusing passages, is that in which Urrea gives a detailed account of the circumstances relating to the duel proposed by Francis I. to the Emperor Charles. Urrea also translated into Spanish the once popular French poem entitled Chevalier Delibéré. It was printed in 1555. It may be interesting to learn, that Charles V. amused the languors and fretfulness of a premature old age by making a translation into Spanish prose of the same poem. This imperial translation was at Charles' own request recast and published by Fernando de Acuña.—R. M., A.  URSINO,, an archbishop of Rheims. In 1461 he consecrated Louis XI. He was appointed by Pope Calixtus III. to inquire into the sentence which the English had pronounced on the Maid of Orleans. He died July 14, 1474. He wrote a "History of King Charles VI.," embracing the period from 1380 to 1422, which was published after his death.—J. E.  URSINS,, Princess des, who exercised remarkable influence at the Spanish court during the war of the Succession, was a native of France, and was born about 1645. She was married in 1659 to the prince of Chalais, whom she followed into exile when he was forced to leave France in 1663, in consequence of his connection with a notorious duel. After his death the princess married in 1675 the duke de Bracciano, head of the great family of Orsini, or des Ursins. From this period may be dated the commencement of the political career of the princess. Her wit, graceful manners, information, and great talents for intrigue gave her vast influence at Rome, which was increased rather than diminished by the death of her second husband. When Philip V. succeeded to the Spanish throne, and married in 1701 the princess of Savoy, Louis XIV., his grandfather, knowing the queen would govern her weak husband, looked about for somebody to govern the queen, and selected the Princess des Ursins to be first lady of the bedchamber. She accepted the post, with the resolution to play in Spain the part which Madame de Maintenon had played in France, and determined that the management of public affairs should be intrusted to the native grandees. She carried out her scheme in spite of the opposition of the French emissaries in Spain, and of the Cardinal d'Estrees. The French ambassador and the abbe his nephew, who succeeded him, were recalled in consequence of their having dared to thwart the imperious favourite. She at length became so powerful that Louis himself was compelled to court her; but having refused to lend herself submissively to his designs, he sent her orders in 1704 to retire to Italy. The queen, however, took part with her favourite attendant, and the king of course took part with the queen. The princess paid a visit to Paris in 1705 for the purpose of vindicating her conduct, and after a great deal of "squabbling, lying, shuffling, bullying, and coaxing," says Macaulay, the dispute was adjusted, and the princess returned to Madrid, where she was welcomed with great demonstrations of joy. Throughout the disastrous period of the war of Succession the princess displayed indomitable courage, and contributed not a little to sustain the resolution of the Spanish sovereign and people. But on the termination of the struggle she still persisted in recommending the employment of native ministers, and thus provoked the displeasure of the French court. The death of the queen in 1714 gave the deathblow to the supremacy of her ambitious favourite. Her successor, Elizabeth Farnese, niece of the duke of Parma, shortly after her arrival, pretending to take offence at some advice which she gave, ordered the princess to leave the country. She was immediately seized, thrown into a carriage, without being allowed even to change her court dress, and hurried to the frontier in the month of December, 1714. From France she passed to Savoy, then to Geneva, and finally to Rome, where she fixed her residence. Though her influence at the Spanish court was thus rudely terminated, Philip continued to pay her pension with great regularity to the end of her life. In her old age she became a zealous partisan of the exiled Stewart dynasty. The princess died in 1722. Although vain of her personal charms, addicted to flirtation, and dressing in the style of a girl, even after she was upwards of fifty years old, the princess was distinguished both for strength of mind and eloquence. St. Simon, who disliked her, owned that no person whom she wished to attach could long resist the graces of her manners and of her conversation. The letters of the Princess des Ursins and of Madame de Maintenon were published in 1826, 4 vols. 8vo.—J. T.  URSINUS, URSIN, URSINI, was a very common name. Among those called by it may be mentioned, a protestant divine of Ratisbon, born 1608, and died 1667, author of commentaries and histories.—, his son, author of some philological treatises. Died in 1707.—J. E.  URSINUS,, a noted mathematician, was born July 5, 1587, at Sprottau in Silesia. He took the Latin name of Ursinus, corresponding to his original one of Behr. After holding various situations at Prague, he taught mathematics at Frankfort-on-the-Oder. He published three books of trigonometry, "Canon Triangulorum Logarithmicus;" also on rhabdologia, or divination by rods. Died September 27, 1633.—J. E.  URSINUS,, a famous preacher, was a descendant of the more celebrated Zachary Ursinus—which see. He was for a time court preacher to the elector of Brandenburg; and in 1711, when the elector became king, he was dignified with the title of bishop in 1701, and received the order of the eagle, with a characteristic coat of arms. Died at Berlin, 1717.—J. E.  URSINUS,, a famous Italian scholar, was born at Rome, 2nd December, 1529, and was sprung of the noble family of Orsini. His youth was spent in poverty; his mother dismissed by his father, was obliged to beg, but the boy's precocious talent gained him the patronage of the Canon Delfini, who gave him some instruction in the classic tongues. Ursinus entered priest's orders at the proper age, and to secure him literary leisure Pope Gregory XIII. gave him a pension of two hundred ducats. He gathered a large library of books and MSS. <section end="474Zcontin" />