Pazzi, Cosmo, an Italian prelate, was bom at Flor- ence in 1467, and was on his mother's side a descendant of the Medicis. He was provided by pope Alexander VI with a canouicate in the church of Oleron, in France,
and soon after with its episcopal chair, of which he never took possession. The Florentines had already sent him, Sept. 14, 1496, to the emperor Maximilian to mediate concerning the war of Pisa and the league of Itah'. On his return he was elected, April 17, 1497, bishop of Arezzo, and he renounced his pretensions to the seat of Oleron. Alexander VI charged him with a diplomatic commission to Spain, and then to France. Pope Julius II transferred him to the archbishopric of Florence, July 5, 1508, and premature death alone de- prived him of the purple, to which he would certainly have been raised by his maternal uncle, Leo X. Pazzi died at Florence April 9, 1515. He first became known by a Latin translation, the Dissertations of Maximus of Tyre. Three editions of this translation (Rome, 1517; Basle, 1519; Paris, 1554, fol.) preceded the publication of the original Greek text brought out b}' Estienne at Paris (1557, 8vo). The translation of Pazzi was pub- lished under the editorship of his brother, Pierre Pazzi. See Italia Sacra, i, 431 ; ii, 182 ; Hist, de la Noblesse du Comtat Venaissin. vol. ii, s. v. ; Combes-Dounous, Disser- tations de Maxime de Tyr(^[ntrod.). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog, Generale, xxxix, 433.
Pazzi, Pietro Antonio, an Italian engraver, was born at Florence in 1706. It is not known under whom he studied, but he executed many plates of portraits and other subjects, after the Italian masters, which are held in estimation. His works are to be found in the Museo Fiorentino, Museo Capitolino, and the Museo Etrusco. Among them the following are of interest to us : The Holy Family (after L. Cabiasi) ; The A ssumption of the Virgin (after Raffaellc) ; The Virgin and Infant Christ (after Vaiuh'ck) ; St. Zanohi resuscitating a dead Per- son (after Betti) ; St. Philip j-efusing the Popedom (id.) ; .4 Sibyl (after Crespi). See Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the line Arts, ii, 666.
Peabody, David, a Congregational minister, was born April 16, 1805, in Topsfield, Mass. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1828; entered the ministry April, 1831, and was ordained pastor of the First Church, Lynn, Mass., November, 1832, from which charge he was, however, soon dismissed, on account of ill-health. He became pastor of the Calvinist Church, Worcester, July 15, of the following year. In 1838 he accepted the pro- fessorship of rhetoric at Dartmouth College, but died the next year, Oct. 17, 1839. Mr. Peabody published A Memoir of Horace Bassett Morse (1830) : — A Dis- course 07i the Conduct of Men considered in Contrast with the Law of God (1836) : — A Sermon on the Sin ofCovet- ousness considered in respect to Intemperance, Indian Op- pression, etc. (1838) : — The Patriarch of Hebron, or the History of Abraham (1841); and wrote a number of valuable articles for the Amer. Biblical Repository. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, ii, 744; Dr. Lord's Sermon on his death.
Peabody, Ephraim, D.D., a Unitarian divine of distinction, was born at Wilton, N. H., in 1807, and was educated at Bowdoin College, class of 1827. He subse- quently studied theology at Cambridge, and in 1831 be- came pastor of a Unitarian Church at Cincinnati. In 1838 he removed to New Bedford, Conn., as pastor of a Unitarian congregation, and in 1846 accepted a call to the pastorate of King's Chapel. He died in 1846. Dur- ing his lifetime he published a number of addresses, es- says, and sermons; also several review articles. After his death appeared Seimons, with a Memoir bj' S. A. Elliot (Boston, 1857, 12mo) : — Christian Days and Thoughts (1858, 12rao, and often ; London, 1868, fcp. 8vo). Dr. Peabody also wrote a number of poems. He was a pious man, and practical in his purposes. He dis- played a fertile yet chastened imagination, and vigorous expression in all his writings, and they therefore impress the reader. Favorable notices were given of his works, not only in this countr}', but also in Europe. See Lond. A then. 1840, p. 626 ; Westm. Rev. Oct. 1857 ; North A mer. Rev. July, 1857, p. 278, 521. (J. H. W.)
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Peabody, George, an American merchant, whose name deserves to be held in remembrance on account of his munificent philantliropy, was born at Danvers,Mass., Feb. 18, 179o. His parents were poor, and his only edu- cation was received at the district school. At the age of eleven he was placed with a grocer, and at fifteen in a haberdasher's shop in Newburyport. When t\venty- two vears old, he was a partner with Elisha Kiggs in Baltimore. In 1827 he went to England to buy mer- chandise, and to transact financial business for the State of Marvland. In 1837 he permanently removed to Lon- don, and in 1843 became a banker. He accumulated a large fortune, but did not forget his humble origin or place of birth. In 1852, on the two hundredth anniver- sary of the settlement of his native town, he sent home $20,000 to found an educational institute and library, a sum which he afterwards increased to $60,000, with $10,000 to North Danvers. He also contributed $10,000 to the first Grinnell Arctic Expedition, $500,000 to the city of Baltimore for an institute of science, literature, and the fine arts ; and in 18G3, on retiring from active business in London, he made the splendid donation of £150,000 sterling for the benefit of the poor of London, and in 1866 enlarged this donation by another contri- bution of £150,000. He also gave to Harvard Univer- sity $150,000 for a museum, etc.; and in 1867 devoted $2,000,000 to found common schools in the Southern States. He died in London in 1869. His adopted country honored his remains in many ways, and his native country honored itself by sending a government ship of war to convey the body of this philanthropist to the place of his birth for interment. Great Britain, however, would not suffer any but one of her own ships to take the remains from her country, and the trans- portation consequently took place in the British man- of-war Monarch. (J. H. W.)