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Nanini, Giovanni -Maria, an Italian composer, was born about 1540 at Vallerano. He studied har- mony in the school of Goudimel with Palestrina. From 1571 to 1575 lie jierformed the duties of chapel-master in the church of Sainte INIary, and in 1577 he entered the college of singers in the pontifical chapel. He was
Khaypore), a small village of Lahore, Hindostan, He is said to have travelled through most of the coun- tries in India, and even into Persia and Arabia, jireach- ing his doctrines in peace, and i>rcserving an unaffected meekness and simplicity of manners. He dieii at Pawn, a village to the north of Lahore, in 1539. The unity, omniscience, and omnipotence of tJod were some of the
director of a school in composition, which was the first principal tenets taught by Nanok. Not less than 100,000 of its kind established at Pome by an Italian. Accord- ' persons in different countries adopted the tenets of Na- ing to :M. Fetis, this master is to'be regarded as one of »"k before his decease, and considered him as their gu- the most learned men of the Roman sdiool. aiul his pro- ' >"u, or religious guide. See Skikhs. ductions deserve to be placed immediately after those of | Nantes, Council of. Two important ecclesiasti- Palestrina. Several of his motets arc still sung, among i cal assemblages were held in the city of Nantes. France, others at Christmas matins a /Jodie nobis calorum rex, besides those of the Huguenots (q. v.). The first Church which is truly beautiful. He died at Pome March \ council was held about the year 1127, under the count
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Conon ; Hildebert, archbishop of Tours, presiding. It ■was ruled that children by an incestuous marriage should have 110 share in the succession of their parents ; and that the children of priests should not receive holy orders except they should first have taken monastic vows. Anathema was pronounced against those who plundered shipwrecked property {Cone. torn, x, p. 918). A sec- ond Church council was held there in 12(54; Vincent, archbishop of Tours, presiding. Nine canons were pub- lished. The most important (2) forbids the number of monks in any priory or abbey to be diminished; (5) forbids to set more than two dishes before the bishop in visitation, and orders that if more have been prepared they shall be given to the poor ; (G) forbids pluralities ; (7) forbids, under pain of excommunication, to demand toll of the clergy {Cone. torn, xi, p..826). See Landon, Manual of Eccle^. Councils, s. v.
Nautes, Edict of, is the name of a famous de- cree published by Henry IV of France, April 13, 1598, guaranteeing to his Protestant subjects the liberty of serving God according to the dictates of their conscience, and security for the enjoyment of their civil rights and privileges. The decree had been made necessary by many causes, the most important of which was Henry's own defection from the Protestant faith, and probable consequent alliance with the Romanists against those he once loved. See Huguenots. There can be no doubt that Henry IV simply left the Protestant fold to secure the protection of Rome and its allies for his throne and realm. His own political actions after apostasy reveal such a cause. (See, however, for a defense of this king's apostasy, Jervis, Hist, of the Church of Fraiwe, i, 199 sq.) Once a Romanist, he determined for the sake of pleasing the papal host to do all in his power to weaken the Huguenots, and thus indirectly largely assisted their persecution. Yet though Henry had quitted the Prot- estants in order to strengthen himself, he had still to learn that a great source of trouble and perplexity would come to him from those he had considered too weak to be worth his friendship or attention even. When sud- denly forced to declare war against Spain, Henry found himself deprived of the support and aid of some of his most valuable citizens. They were Protestants, and after 1594, when the truce for hostilities had expired, and no guarantee as to their future had been granted them, they had declared themselves "a state within the state." They would only hold their own strongholds, and re- fused to take up arms in defence of a realm that failed to afford them the protection to which their citizenship en- titled them. Even Romanists saw the folly of the king's course, and propositions were finally made to renew the edict of 1577, or, what is the same, the Edict of Nantes (1591), which had never yet taken effect because of the opposition of Parliament. The Reformed demantled more. In 1597 a meeting was called at Loudiin to effect a reconciliation. It failed to bring about the much-desired result. Another meeting was called at Vendome, but it also failed ; for the Protestants feared the direct influence of the court, which was in the imme- diate vicinity, and the meeting was adjourned to Sau- mur. By the close of 1597, however, the different par- ties came to an understanding. France had been suc- cessful. Spain was in fiivor of peace, and in the hour of prosperity Henry was inclined to grant favors. The result was an agreement for the edict ; and on the same day on which the peace with Spain was settled by the signature of the king, the edict obtained the king's ap- proval and hand and seal (^lay 2, 1598). It was in re- ality a new confirmation of former treaties between the French government and the Huguenots, by which all verdicts against them were erased from the rolls of the courts, and their unlimited liberty of conscience was rec- ognised. The preamble to this most important docu- ment, the Magna Charta of Protestant liberty in France, specifies, curiously enough, as the royal motive for issu- ing it, the necessity of completely and securely re-es- tablishing the Catholic religion in those localities where