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vita e delle opere di Franc. Negri, aposfafa Bassanese del secolo xvi (Bassano, 1839, 4to) ; Dizionario istorico (ed. De Bassano) ; Brunet, Manuel du Lihraire (Index) ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen. xxvii, 618, 619. (J. H. AV.)
Negri, Girolamo, an Italian humanist, was born at Venice in 1494, After having been vicar of the bishops of Belluno and Vicenza, he became secretary of cardinal Cornaro, and later of cardinal Contarini. Negri obtained afterwards a canonicate at Padua. He died at Padua in lo77. According to the judgment of Sadolet, he wrote Latin with purity and great elegance. We have of his works, Epistolm et Oraiiones (Padua, 1579, 4to, and Rome, 1767). At the head of this last edition is found a biography of Negri, written by abbe Costanzi. See Foscarini, Stoi-ia della lelteratura Vene- ziana. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxxvii, 613.
Negri, Salomon (Arabic, Soleyman Alsadi), a Greek philosopher, was born at Damascus in the latter part of the 17th century. Instructed by the Jesuit missionaries in the Greek and Latin languages, he came to Paris, and continued his studies at the Sorbonne. He afterwards went to London, and in 1701 to Halle, where he remained four years, giving lessons in Arabic, among others to the celebrated Michaelis. The climate of Germany being injurious to his health, he went to Italy, and afterwards established himself at Constantinople, where he was ordained priest of the Greek Church. The war brought him again to Italy. He sought, but without success, to found at Venice, and later at Rome, a school wliere he would have taught Arabic, Syriac, and Turkish. He then returned to Halle, where he again passed sixteen months; and finally settled in London, and there obtained employment as interpreter of the Oriental languages. He died there in 1729. Negri has given Arabic translations of the Psalms and the N'ew Testament, published under the auspices of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The Psalms ap- peared in 1725 (8vo) ; the Neio Testament in 1727 (4to). These two versions have been severely criticised by Eeiske (see Baumgarten, Nachrichten von merkwurdigen Biichern, iii, 283). We have likewise a Latin transla- tion of the Vie de Gabriel Bachtishusia (in the Opera of Freind). Lastly, he has published in the Freiwilliges Hebeopfer a Conversation which he had in Constantino- ple with a Turkish mollah. See Memoria Negriana (Halle, 1764, 4to).— Rotermund, Supplement to Jocher, Gelehrten-Lexikon, s. v. ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxxvii, 616.
Negri, Virginia - Angelica - Paula - Anto- nia, an Italian nun, was born in 1508 at Milan. She early left the world to enter the new monastery of the Angelicas of St. Paul, to the foundation of which she had contributed, and became teacher of the novices. Full of zeal for the propagation of her faith, she travel- led over Vicenza, Udine, Padua, Verona, Brescia, preach- ing everywhere repentance and purity of life. The sick and the poor also became the object of her care, and several hospitals owe their foundation to her. Among the number of conversions that she made, we mention that of Alphonse, marquis of Guaste, governor of the Milanese, whom she comforted by religious counsels on his death-bed. Many of her converts entered the congregation of the Clercs of St. Paul. Calumny did not spare her; and her enemies, seeking to prove her a visionary, found the means to immure her in the con- vent of the Clarissas. John of Salazar, an Italian prel- ate, then archbishop of Luciano, was named to examine her conduct, and recognised the falsity of the accusa- tions. A woman of superior mind, she wrote well. She was well versed in Latin. She died at Milan April 4, 1555. We have of her works, Lettere spirituali della devota e j-eligiosa Aiigelica Paida Antonia de Negri (Venice, 1547, 4to ; Milan, 1663, 8vo). Another edition, published at Rome (1576, 12mo), is preceded by the life of Virginia Negri by J. B. Fontana de Conti. The spiritual letters, to the number of seventy -two, are
divided into three parts, and for unction and piety offer some resemblance to those of Saint Catharine of Sienna. There is also attributed to Negri, Esereizio partico- lare dhina serva del Signore (Brescia, 1577, 12mo). See Biblioth. mediol. scriptoi-um, ii, 993 ; Arisi, Cremona lit- terata ; Augustinus, A b Ecclesia, Teatro delle done let- terate, p. 271. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen. xxxvii, 613.
Negrillos or Negritos (Spanish, diminutive of Negroes) is the name given by the Spaniards to cer- tain Negro-like tribes inhabiting the interior of some of the Philippine Islands, and differing essentially both in features and manners from the Malay inhabitants of the Eastern archipelago. Among the planters and vil- lagers of the plains they bear the name oi lias ox Ajetas (pronounced Abetus). They are also called by the Span- iards Negritos del Monte, from their inhabiting the moun- tainous districts for the most part ; and one of the islands where they are most numerous bears the name of Isla de los Negros. These Negritos are also known by the names A eta, A igta, lie, Inapta, and Igolote or Igorote. They bear a very strong resemblance to the Negroes of Guinea, but are much smaller in size, averaging ic height not more than four feet eight inches, whence their appellation. They are described as a short, small, but well-made and active people, the lower part of the face projecting like that of the African Negroes, the hair either woolh^ or frizzled, and the complexion exceedingly dark, but not quite so black as that of the Negroes. The Spaniards describe them as small, more slightly built, less black, and less ugh' than the Negroes — Menos Negros y menos feos. All writers concur in speaking of them as sunk in the lowest depths of .sav- agedom, wandering in the woods and mountains, with- out any fixed dwellings, and with only a strip of bark to cover their nakedness; sleeping in the branches of the trees, or among the ashes of the fires at which they had cooked their food. Their only weapons are the bow and arrow ; and they live upon roots, wild fruits, and any sort of animals that they can surprise in their haunts or conquer in the chase. By the Malays they