Page, Samitel, an English divine who flourished in the first half of the 17th century as vicar of Dept- ford, and died in 1630, is noted as the author of a num- ber of sermons which are read to this day for their elegance of style. He also wrote several theological treatises (Lond. 1609-39). See Athen. Oxon. (see Index).
Page, William, an English divine of note, was born at Harrow-on-the-llill, in Middlesex, and was edu- cated at Baliol College, Oxford, whence he was elected a fellow of All-Souls. In 1629 he was appointed master of the Free School at Reading, which preferment he re- tained for almost ten years, when he was deprived of it by the Dissenters and the Revolutionists. He was ap- pointed by his college to the living of East Leaking, Berkshire, and held it until his death in 1663. He wrote .4 Treatise in Justification of Bowing at the Name of Jesus, by way of answer to an Appendix against that custom (( )xfiird, 1631, 4to); and also an Kxinninalion of such considerable Peasons as are made hij Mr. I'ri/nne in a Reply to Mr. Widdoices concerning the same .Argu- ment, printed with the former. He was also the author of Certain A nimadversions upon some Passages in a Tract concerning Schivn and Schismatics, by Mr. Hales of Eton (Oxon. 1642, 4to); and the Peace-maker, or a Brief Motive to Unity and Charily in Religion. He likewise published a translation of Thomas a Kempis
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(]639, 12rao), with a large epistle to the reader. See Hook, Ecdes. Biorj. vii, 490, 491.
Paget. See Pagit.
Paggi, Giovanni Battista, a noted Italian paint- er, was born of an ancient and noble family at Genoa in 1554. He was the pupil of Luca Carabiaso, and was distinguished chietiy as a painter, though he attained to distinction also as a sculptor and architect. About 1580 he was obliged to tlee from Genoa in consequence of an unfortunate homicide which the absurd conduct of a friend brought upon him. Paggi went to Florence, and, under the protection of the grand-dukes Francesco I and Ferdinando, lived there in peace and with rep- utation. He was recalled through archbishop Sinna- sio, afterwards cardinal, to Genoa about 1600, where he executed several excellent works, and gave a great impulse, especially in coloring, to the Genoese school of painting, of which he was the best master in his time. Paggi died in 1627. His masterpieces are two pictures in San Bartolomeo, and the Slaurjliter of the Innocents, belonging to the Doria family, painted in 1606, In 1607 he published a short treatise on the theory of painting. See Spooner, Bior/. Did. of the Fine Arts, s. v.
Pagi, Anthony, a noted French ecclesiastical writer, was born at Kogua, a small town in Provence, in 1624. He took the monk's habit in the convent of the Cordeliers at Aries in 1641. After he had finished the usual course of studies in philosophy and divinity, he preached a while, and was at length made four suc- cessive times provincial of his order. These occupations did not hinder him from devoting time to the study of chronology and ecclesiastical history, branches of learn- ing in which he excelled. His most considerable work is entitled, Critica historico-chronoloijica in Annales ec- clesiasticos Baronii, in which, foUo^-ing that learned cardinal year by year, he has rectified a great num- ber of mistakes, both in chronology and in facts. Pagi published the first volume of this work, containing the four first centuries, at Paris in 1689, with a dedication to the clergy of Franc?, who allowed him a pension. The whole work was printed after his death in four volumes folio, at Anvers, or rather at Geneva, in 1705, by the care of his nephew, Francis Pagi, of the same order. It is carried to the year 1198, where Baronius ends. Pagi was greatly assisted in it by the abbe Longuerue, who also wrote the eulngy of our author, which is prefixed to the Geneva edition. This Critique is of great utility ; but the author, too fond of striking out something new, has given a chronology of the popes of the first three centuries which is not approved by the critics, and more or less impeaches his reliability as a historian. His style is simple, but his matter evinces study and care. Pagi was in correspondence with the learned of his time in France and in England. Among his friends were Stillingfieet, Spanheim, Dod- well, cardinal Noris, etc. He died in 1699. See Nice- ron, Menioires, vol. i and xvii ; Ersch u. Gruber, Ency- Mop.s.v. (J.H.W.)
Pagi, Fi"an90is, nephew of the preceding, also a distinguished French ecclesiastic, was born at Lambesc, in Provence, in 1654. He was educated first by the priests of the Oratory at Toulon, and then by his un- cle, who inspired the boy with a desire to serve the Church. Francois entered the Order of the Cordeliers, and, after teaching philosophy for some time, sought further mental development under the guidance of his uncle, and thus became that learned man's assistant in his Critique on Baronius's Annals. Francois then laid the plan of a work of his own, which he afterwards pub- lished under the title Brevicvium Ilisior. chronol. crit., illustr. pontif. Roman, [/csta, concilior. general, acta, nee noil complura turn sacror. rituum, turn antiques eccles. disciplina, capita complectens (1717-1747). In it Pagi manifests great zeal for ultramontane theology and the exaltation of the papacy. He died at Orange Jan. 21, 1721. See Niceron, Memoires, vol. vii, s. v.