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* MORETO Y CABANA. Rico homhre de Alcdlii, doaliiii; with Poilro the Cruel as the justit-e loving King. Consult Co- medias escogiddn of Jloreto in volnnio xxxix. of the Bibliotcca dc uutures esitai'iohx, which also has L. Fernfindcz Guerra y Orhe's essay on him. MOBETTO DA BRESCIA, in6-r6t't6 da bresh'a (141.18-155.3). An Italian painter, whose real name was AlessaiKlro lionvii'ino. He was born at Brescia in 1498, and olitaincd his early art education in this city under Fioravante Fer- raniola. Later he is thouglit to have received stimulus from the works of Titian. In 1521, when twenty-three years of age, in frescoes exe- cuted in the Clia])el of San Giovanni Evangelista at Brescia, he showed himself strong in concep- tion and handling of form, and endowed with a genius for color harmony exceptional even in the Venetian school. His works are pervaded by a characteristic silvery tone, which foreshadowed Paul Veronese, but dill'er from that painter in the gravity of his conception and the reverent religious feeling in his sacred compositions. Between 1521 and 1544 Morctto executed many paintings in and al)out Brescia, where his works may best be studied. Among the principal are : the altar-piece of San Clemente, Brescia. represent- ing "Saints with a Clioir of Angels:" "The As- cension of llary," in Saiiti Xazaro e Celsn : and "Mary Appearing to a Shepherd Boy." in the Cliurch of Paitone (Province of Brescia). In 1544 he painted his celebrated "Christ in the House of the Pharisee" for Santa Maria della Pieta, Venice, a work virile in presentation and pleasing in composition. Other important works are contained in the galleries of Italy and North- ern Europe. The Staedcl Institute. Frankfort, possesses a fine altar-piece representing the "En- throned iladonna with the Four Doctors:" and the Berlin iluseum has "The Glory of Mary and Elizabeth." There are also typical examples in the Imperial Gallery. Vienna, the Xational Gal- lery, London, the Brera, Jlilan, and in the Louvre. Moretto died at Brescia in 1555. Among his pupils, the most important was Giambattista Moroni of Bergamo. Consult Crowe and Caval- caselle. History of Painting in the orth of Itati/ (London, 1891). MO'REY, Samuel (1762-1843). An Ameri- can inventor, chiefly remembered for his at- tempts to solve the problems of steam navigation. He was born in Hebron, Conn., and lived in Or- ford, N. H., and Fairlee. Vt. In 170,3, after sev- eral years of experimenting, he succeeded in con- structing a small steamboat, which was moved by a wheel at its prow. It was exhibited on both the Connecticut River and the Hudson, and it is said that Chancellor Livingston made Morey an offer of ,$7000 for the use of the invention about New York, but that !Morey refused. In 1705 Morey patented a crank-motion steam-engine for use in l)oats. Two years afterwanls he built at Bordentown, N. .1., a boat with paddle wheels on each side, and operated it successfully on the Del- aw^are. He seemed, in fact, to., have had the prob- lems of steam navigation practically solved: but misfortunes prevented him from following up his success, and to Robert Fulton went the honor that might otherwise have been Morey "s. MOREY FORGERY, In American political history, (lie forgi'vy. during the Presidential cam- paign of 1880, of the name of .Tames .. Garfield, the Republican candidate for the Presidency, to 797 MORGAN. a letter which was widely used for campaign pur- poses. The letter, which favored Chinese immi- gration and purported to be addressed to "H. L. Morey, Lynn, .Mass.," was made public in Truth, a Xew York i>aper, on October 20, 1880; and on the 22d what iiurporled to be a fac-simile of the letter was |iul]|islied in the same paper, (iarlield immediately denounced the letter as a forgery, but extensive use was made of it by the Demo- cratic campaign managers, and many votes were supposed to have been turned by it from the Republican ticket. Consult Davenport, History of The Horry Letter (New York, 1884). MOR'FILL, WiLLi..M Kicii.Bn (c.l830— ). An English Slavic scholar. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class in classics in 1855, and in 1889 be- came reader of Russian. He became professor of Slavonic languages, and was appointed curator of the Taylor Institute. His excellent w-orks on Slavic literature, language, and history include: grammars of Polish ( 1884 ), Servian ( 1887 ) , Rus- sian (1889), and Czech (1898) : Russia (1881) : Slaroiiic Literature (1883); Stori/ of Russia (1891) : Story of Poland (1893) : aiid a History of Russia from the Birth of Peter the Great to Mcholas II. (1902). MORGAGNI, mOr-ga'nye, Giovanni Bat- TISTA ( ltiS2-1771 ), A celebrated Italian patho- logical anatomist, born at Forii in Itomagua. He studied at Bologna, graduating in both medi- cine and philosophy in 1701, In his twenty-third year he .assumed the presidency of an independent medical school. In 1715 he was appointed to fill the chair of anatomy at Padua, where he re- mained and performed his life work as a pathol- ogist. He is generally regarded as the founder of pathological anatomy, and his book on the Scats and Causes of Disease has remained a clas- sic, ilorgagni became known wherever the art of medicine was known and practiced. He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1724; of the French Academy of Science in 1731; of the Imperial Academy of Saint Peters- burg in 1735; and of the Academy of Berlin in 175-i. His more important works are: Adrersoria Anatomiea, published in si.x parts, the first at Bologna and Padua (1706-19; Leyden, 1741); III Aurelium Celsum et Quinlum Serenum (Pa- dua, 1704 and 1721): Opuseula Miscellanea .(Leyden, 171)3) : De Sedihus et Causis Morborum per Ana tome n Indagatis (Bassano, 1761), His Opera Omnia appeared at Bassano in 1765. MOR'GAN, THE Fay. An important figure in mediieval romance, whose origin is probably to be traced to Celtic mytliology. In the Vita Mer- lini, ascribed to Geofi'rey of ^Monmouth, she is mentioned as the eldest of nine sisters who in- habit the fortunate 'Insula Poniorum.' She is said to be very learned in the art of healing, and to be endowed besides with the mysterious powers of changing shape and of flying like a bird. To her, according to the same account, the wounded Arthur was borne after the battle of Canilan. Morgan played a similar part in ro- mances of other cycles. Thus, in the story of "Ogier le Danois." she receives the aged Ogier in the island of Avainn and restores him to youth : and in the "Orlando Innaniorato" of Boiardo there is n long account of her splendid abode at the bottom of a lake. In Italy, her name has been popularly applied to a form of