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the Anais or Anaitis of the Armenians, all uniting in the worship of the power which represented maternal productiveness. . . . Antiochus, it seems, paid little or no regard to this idol" (Commentary on Dan. ad loc). In 2 Slacc. ix, 1, 2, tliere appears to be a different ac- count of the same sacrilegious attempt of Antiochus; but the scene of the event is there jilaced at Persepolis, " the city of the Persians," where there might well have been a temple to tlie national deity. But Grimm con- siders it far more probable that it was an Elymajan tem- ple wliich excited the cupidity of the king. See (Je- senius, Jcsaia, iii, 337, and Grimm's Connmntar in the Kurzfjcf. llandb. ad loc. — Smith.
Nance, John, an Anglican clergyman, flourished in the early part of this century. He was educated at Oxford, and became fellow of Worcester College. lie then tdok holy orders, and was made rector of Old Kom- ney. Later he became master of the grammar-school at Ashford, Kent. lie died after 1816. lie published Ser- mons on vaHous subjects (1807, 8vo): — A Letter from a Country Clergyman to his Paiishioners, on the A rguments and Practices of some of the Modern Dissenters (1809, 8vo) : — An Address to the Members of the Church of Enijland (1811, 8vo). See Diet, of Living A uthors, s. v.
Nandi is in Hindu mythology the name of a white bull, regarded as the vehicle of Siva (q. v.).
Nauiau Manuscript (Codex Xanianus, desig- nated as U of the (lospels, now in the Library of St. Mark, Venice, where it is numbered I, viii), so called from a former possessor, is an uncial codex of the 9th or 10th century, containing the four Gospels, carefully and luxuriouslj' written in two columns of twenty-one lines each on a 4to page, with ornaments in gold and colors. It has the Eusebian canons in the margin. It accords with the Alexandrine recension. Miinter first sent some extracts from it to Birch, who used them for his edition. Tischendorf collated the MS. in 1843, and Tregelles in 1846, and they compared their work for mutual correction atLeipsic. — Scrivener, Introd. p. 117; Tregelles, in Home's Introd. iv, 202. See Manuscripts, Biblical.
11, 1607. He published, Motetti (Venice, 1578, 4to, 2 books) : — Mudrigali a cinque voci (ibid. 1579-1586, 4 vols. 4to, 4 books): — Canzonette a tre voci (ibid. 1587, 4to). Many fragments of his scattered through several collections are still known ; and in manuscript there are fugues, litanies, masses, psalms, and a treatise on counterpoint. His younger brother, Giovanni-Bernardi- no, was also chapel-master at Borne. He was among the first to abandon the old style for new music with or- gan accompaniment. To him we also owe, MadriguH (Venice and Home, 1598-1012, 3 parts, 4to) -.—Motecta (Rome, 1608-1618, 4 parts, AUi):~Salmi (ibid. 1620, 4to). See Iloefer, Xoue. Biog. G inhale, s. v.
Nanni i>i Baccio Bigio, a Florentine sculptor and arcbitfct, lived in the first part of the 16th century. He studied sculpture under IJaffaclle de Montelupe, and pro- duced the statue of pope Clement VH in the Minerva at Home, and a good copy of Michael Angelo's Piety, which he executed, it is said, under his direction for the church of the :Madonna dell' Anima. After having studied ar- chitecture under Lorenzetto, he was employed upon St. Peter's Church by Antonio de San-Gallo. It is known that Michael Angelo, succeeding San-Gallo, commenced by destroying all that his predecessor had done, dis- charging all those who had worked under his orders. Hence the hatred that Nanni bore to the prince of the Florentine school. De Quincey says, " Nanni has left no work of his own to assure him a distinguished place among the architects of his time, and perhaps he would have ill deserved one in the history of architect- ure if his rival, whom he twice overreached by in- trigue, had not given him a kind of celebrity." Michael Angelo having been commissioned to restore the bridge Santa-Maria over the Tiber, Nanni took the work from him, and accomplished it so that at the first inundation the bridge was carried away. Afterwards he succeeded in joining Michael Angelo in the work upon St. Peter's. Michael Angelo protested with his usual vivacity, and proved the ignorance of Nanni, who, says Vasari, was dismissed under disgrace. Several considerable edifices of Kome have been built after his designs, particularly the palaces lUcci and Salirati. See Hoefer, Xouv. Biog, Generale, s. v.
Nanni, Gikolamo, a Roman painter of religious subjects, called " II Poco e Buono,'" flourished about 1643. His talents were ordinary, and he deserves little notice, except for his studious disposition and slowness bf execution. He was employed by Sixtus V in several considerable works, and whenever re-
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ways answered "poco e buono"' (little and good), which expression gained him his surname. There are a number of bis pictures at liome, among wliich are the Annunciation in the church of the Madonna dcir Anima, and two subjects from the life of St. Bonaventura in St. Bartolomeo dell' Isola. See Spooner, Biog. Diet, of the Fine Arts, ii, 607.