Pasithea, one of the Graces among the ancient Greeks.
Pasor, Georg, a learned German philologist, was born Aug. 1, 1570, at Ellar, in Nassau. In 1615 he became professor of philology at Herborn, and in 1616 at Franecker, where he died, Dec. 10, 1637. He is the author of a small lexicon of the New Testament, Lexi- con Groeco-Latin. in N. Test. (Herborn, 1622), which has been several times republished, and he left among his papers a grammar of the New Testament, which his sou Matthasus published, with additions and improve- ments of his own, under the title, G. Pasoris Gram- matica Gmca Sacra N. T. in tres libros distribula (Gro- ningen, 1655). This work, which is far more fitted than the lexicon to transmit the author's name to pos- terity, is now a literary rarity, and is not even men- tioned by Foppen {Bihliotheca Belgica, i, 342), who gives a list of Pasor's other writings. See Fiirst, Bibl. Judaica, iii, 68 ; Steinschneider, Bibliogr. Handbuch, p. 109 ; The- ologisches Universal-Lexikon, a. v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, iii, 1284; continued by Rottermund, V, 1629 ; Kitto, Cyclop, s. v. (B. P.)
Pasor, Matthceus, son of the preceding, is noted also for his philological as well as mathematical attain- ments. He was born at Herborn in 1599, and was edu- cated at the university in Marburg. After teaching for some time privately in Hebrew and mathematics he went to England, and was created M.A. by the University of Oxford in 1624. Not finding any opportunity there of securing a professorship he went over to France, and attended lectures at Paris. He made himself master of the Syriac and Arabic, returned to Oxford in 1625, and was shortly after made lecturer on Oriental languages. In 1626 he was made temporary professor, and exercised this function till 1629, when he accepted an invitation to the professorship of moral philosophy at Groningen, which he entered upon in August of the same year. LTpon the death of Mulier, the mathematical professor, six years after, Pasor succeeded to that chair, and in 1645 he was raised to that of divinity, of which faculty he was then created doctor. On this occasion he resigned his mathematical professorship, but retained that of moral philosophy. In 1653 he made a visit to Nassau, his native country; and, going as far as Heidelberg, was entertained with great civility by the elector palatine. He died in January, 1657-8, at Groningen, having never been married. He published no books, for which he gave two admirable reasons : first, " Because he was not willing that j'outh should be diverted from reading the good books already published ;" and, secondly, " Because he did not care that the booksellers should risk their money." (J. H.W.)
Pasquali, Fii.tppo, an Italian painter, was a native of Forli, and flourished in the second half of the 17th century. He studied under Carlo Cignani at Bologna, and afterwards associated himself with Marc Antonio Franceschini, in conjunction with whom he painted many works at Bologna, Rimini, and other places, in which he executed the ornamental parts. Some of his earlier works are to be seen in the portico of the Serviti at Bologna. Lanzi highly commends his altar-piece in the church of S. Vittore at Ravenna, which he executed aione at a more advanced age. He is supposed to have
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Pasqualini, Felice, a Bologneso painter, who flourished about 1575. Accordin<:f to Malvasia, he was the scliolar of Lorenzo Sabbatini, whose style he adopt- ed. He executed some works for the churches, which Lanzi thinks might justly be attributed to Sabbatini, such was the part he took in their execution. — Spooner, Bioff. Hist, of the Fine A rts, ii, (559.
Pasqualini (or Pascaliui), Giovanni Bat- tista, an Italian painter and engraver, was born at Cento, near Bologna, in the latter part of the l(Jth cen- tury. His earliest print is datetl Uil!), and the latest 1630. He studied painting under Ciro Ferri, but docs not seem to have accpiired much eminence in that art. He executed many etchings, mostly after (juercino, in which he endeavored to imitate with the point the mas- terly pen-drawings of that master, but he did not pos- sess a sufficient command of his instrument to accom- plish it with much success. He freciucntly signed his plates J. B. Centensis. Nagler gives a list of forty prints by him, of which the following are of interest to us: Chi-ist dictating the Gospel to St. John; the Resui-- rection of Lazarus ; Christ giving the Keys to St. Peter ; Christ taken in the Garden ; A ngels showing Mary Mag- dalene the Instruments of the Passion; Christ ivith the Disciples at Emmaus ; the Incredulity of Thomas ; the Virgin and In/ant, icith an Angel piesenting Fruit ; the Virgin and Infant, to whom St. John presents an Apple ; St. Charles Borromeo ; St. Felix 7-esuscitating a Dead Child. All these are after Guercino. Besides, Pasqua- lini elaborated St. Felix kneeling before the Virgin and Infant, after L. Caracci; St. Diego ^corking a Miracle, after Ann. Caracci ; the Death of St. Cecilia, after Do- menichino. See Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the Fine A rfs, ii, C59.
Pasqualis, Martinez, chief of the sect of the II- luminati (q. v.), was born about 1715 in Portugal. Of Jewish origin, he had submitted himself in 1754 for ad- mission to the cabalistic body, and afterwards became famous by his introduction of cabalistic rites into sev- eral masonic lodges of France — at Marseilles, Toulouse, and Bordeaux. In the latter city he initiated operations which he called theurgic. One of his most devoted ad- mirers there was Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, then an officer in the regiment of Foix, with whom he has often been confounded, in consequence of the analogy of their names. Martinez, who presented his doctrine as a secret Biblical teaching which he had received by tradition, brought it in 1768 to Paris, and made a large number of adepts, who in 1775 took the name of Mar- tinists. In their reunions they engaged in exercises which announced active virtues, to use consecrated lan- guage. They obtained, by sensible means, manifesta- tions of an intellectual order, which revealed to the proselytes a science of minds, as the visions of Sweden- borg, of a sentimental order, revealed a science of souls. One may conclude from Pasqualis's unpublished writ- ings, and from those of his disciples, that he believed, or made his disciples believe, that it is possible for men in a devoted state to produce supernatural effects, or miracles. Martinez Pasqualis left Paris in 1778 for St. Domingo, where lie was called to succeed one of his rel- atives, and died at Port-au-Prince the following year. See Saint-Martin, QCuvres diverses, passim, — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog, Generale, xxxix, 295.