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 BORGIA BORIC ACID 95 service of the king of Navarre. He was highly educated, eloquent, and a patron of art and literature. For this reason he found many apologists, among them Macbiavelli, who took him as the model ruler in his Principe. II. Lnerezla, sister of the preceding, died in 1523. She was equally remarkable for beauty and ac- complishments, and was in her youth affianced to a nobleman of Aragon, but her father on be- coming pope married her to Giovanni Sforza, lord of Pesaro. This union was dissolved in 1497, and she was given in marriage to Alfonso, duke of Bisceglia, natural son of Alfonso II., king of Naples, and made duchess of Spoleto and Sermoneta. The duke was assassinated two years later, as was believed by order of her brother Cesare. In 1501 she married Alfonso d'Este, son of the duke of Ferrara, became a patron of men of letters, and attract- ed a brilliant society to her court. In her later years she was much given to devotion and acts of charity. She has been often repre- sented as a monster of profligacy, sharing in the atrocities of her father and brother, and even living with them at Rome in incestuous in- tercourse ; but she has also found many defend- ers, who deny the crimes alleged against her. BORGIA, St Francis, general of the society of Jesns, born at Gandia, Spain, in 1510, died in Rome, Oct. 1, 1572. He was duke of Gandia, grand equerry to Isabella of Portugal, the con- sort of Charles V., and mayor domo to the crown prince, afterward Philip II. He was always exact in his religious duties, and after the death of his wife gave up his title and estate to his son and entered the society of Jesus, retaining the administration of the duchy, by special permission of the pope, until his children were provided for. He was ordained priest in the 40th year of his age, and devoted himself to extending and strengthening the order of Jesuits in Spain. At the death of Laynez in 1565 he was elected general of the society, and remained in office till his death. Several bishoprics and the dignity of cardinal were repeatedly pressed upon him, but refused. He was canonized by Clement X. in 1671. BORGIA, Stefano, an Italian cardinal and statesman, born at Velletri, Dec. 3, 1731, died In Lyons, Nov. 23, 1804. He was a generous patron of science, and made valuable collec- tions of manuscripts, coins, and various anti- quities. Having been made a member of the Etruscan academy of Cortona in 1750, he founded the celebrated museum of antiquities at Velletri. He was for some years governor of the duchy of Benevento, and by his sagacity preserved that province from the famine which ravaged the kingdom of Naples in 1764. In 1770 he became secretary of the propaganda, and during 18 years that he occupied that office was enabled greatly to enrich his collec- tion of rare manuscripts and antiquities through the missionaries. Pins VI. named him a car- dinal in 1789, and put under his care the in- stitution of foundlings, and in 1797, when the 110 VOL. HI. 7 revolutionary movement reached Rome, made him dictator of the city. Expelled by the Roman republicans, he retired to Venice, and afterward to Pisa, where he formed a small society of scientific men. He returned to Rome with Pins VII. in 1800, and devoted him- self to reorganizing the papal government. He died while on a journey to Paris as companion of the pope. Besides his valuable collections, he left several historical works of some merit. BORGNE, Lake, a body of water in the S. E. part of Louisiana. It is strictly the termina- tion of that large arm of the Mexican gulf known as Mississippi sound, being connected with it by a strait crossed by a line of small islands, and faced on the east by Grand island. It is also connected with Lake Pontchartrain by the Rigolet pass. It has about the average depth of Lake Pontchartrain, and approaches within 15 m. of New Orleans. Its greatest extent from N. E. to S. W. is about 27 m. Lake Borgne forms a part of the eastern boundary of the Mississippi delta. BORGO, Pozzo di. See Pozzo DI BOEGO. BORGOGNONE, Jacopo Cortesl, also known as JACQUES COUBTOIS (his original name), an Ital- ian painter, born in Burgundy in 1621, died in Rome, Nov. 14, 1676. He studied his art at Bologna, a part of the time under the instruc- tion of Guido. He worked very rapidly, and excelled in representing battle scenes. For many years he resided at Florence, where he acquired a fortune by his pencil, and about 1656 became a Jesuit, still devoting himself to art, but working chiefly on religious subjects. BORGOJUNERO, a walled town of Piedmont, Italy, in the province and 20 m. N. N. W. of the city of Novara, beautifully situated near the Agogna and on the road to Lakes Orta and Maggiore; pop. about 7,000. The town con- tains several churches, convents, and other public buildings, and manufactories of silk and several other articles. BORGOO. I. A kingdom in the interior of Africa, bounded N. by Goorma, E. by the Niger, S. by Yoruba, and W. by Dagomba. It is gener- ally a level country, though crossed by a range of mountains. The soil is fertile and well cul- tivated, and produces corn, yams, plantains, and limes. Game is found in abundance. The people are good-natured, and tolerably honest and thrifty. Borgoo is divided into the states of Boossa, Wawa, Kiama, and others, and is crossed by a caravan route over which there is considerable traffic. Boossa, which holds the first rank among the states, was the scene of the murder of Mungo Park. II. Another kingdom in the interior of Africa, about 400 m. N. E. of Lake Tchad. It is a mountainous region, and is said to be fertile and healthy. It has never been explored by Europeans. An unsuccessful attempt was made to reach it by Barth and Overweg in 1851. BORIC ACID, a compound of the element boron with oxygen and hydrogen ; also called boracic acid. It occurs in nature under the