Tomb of Petrarch.
Petrazzi, Ast , a painter of Siena, was born
about 1590. lie studied successively under Francesco Vanni, the younger Salimbeni, and Pietro Somi. He acquired distinction, and executed many work- lor the churches and public edifices of his native city, a- well as for the private collections. Ho also opened an acad- emy there, which was much frequented by the artists of Siena, and honored by the attendance of Borgognone, who stopped some months with Petrazzi before he pro- cceded to Rome. Lanzi says that Petrazzi seemed to have adhered more to the manner of Vanni than any other master. He frequently aims at pleasing, and not
unfrequently chose his lels from the schools of Upper
1 1 ah. His Marriagi Feast <>t Cana brings Paul the strongly to our recollection. Petrazzi's Com* mwion of St. Jerome, at the Agostinian his painted much after the manner of Caracci. Petrazzi excelled in paint- ing children, and his pictures are generally adorned with choirs of angels. His cabinet pictures are ingeniously composed, and have a lively and pleasing effect. His pi. •tuns of the Four Seasons, a\ Volte, a seat of the no- ble family of ( ihigi, are admired for the playfulness ami elegance of the -roups of Cupids introduced. He died in 1663. See Spooner, Biog. Hist.ofth I'm, Arts, ii, 685.
Petreius (Lai. for Peelers), Tin ki s, a learned
Dutchman, was born April 17. 1567, at Kemp [ssel i. Alter having been received as master of arts in Cologne, he entered the Carthusian eon vol it of that city (1587), and was prior of Dnhneii. in the bishopric of
Minister; iii this capacity he twice assisted at the gen- eral chapter of his order. His taste for study led him
lo employ the time left him from the duties Of his , ,ro- fession in composing or translating different works for the d< fence oft ho Catholic faith. He died at Cologne April -Jo, L640. Wo quote from him. Confe. goriana (Cologne, 1596 or 1605, l2mo); in the same manner he made similar Compilations for the collec- tion of passages extracted from Tertullian and St Cyp- rian (1603), from l.oo the Great (1614), and from St. Bernard (IG07) :—Bibliotheca Cartusiana til. id. L609, l2mo i; Moroti greatly profited from this in preparing his i!i, ai mm s. i 'artusu nsis <>r<L ( ibid. 1680, fol.): < 'hrono- logia, turn Romanorum pontiftcum quam imperatorum, historica | ibid. 1626, tto): —Catahgushaereticorum i ibid. L629, 4to); not wry exact He translated into Latin
two theological works from fathers Coster and .loan 1 Li- vid, and he edited tie- Opt m omnia of St. Bruno ( ibid. 1640, 3 vols. fol.). See Niceron, Mimoires, vol. \1: I'a- quot, Mimoires, vol. ii.— Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, xxxix, 752.
Petreolo, Andrea, a painter of Venzone, who. ac- cording to Renaldis, was employed in the cathedral of his native city about 1586, whore he "decorated the panels of the organ with very beautiful histories of s. Geronimo ami S. Eustachio, together with tin- parable of the wise and foolish virgins, surrounded with line ar- chitecture." See Spooner, Biog. Bist. of thi Fine Arts, ii. 685.
Petri (Lat. for /'-. U rs), Barthelemi, a Belgian theologian, was born about 1547 at Op-Linter, nearTirle- mont After having taught philosophy for ten years at Louvain, in order to escape the miseries of war he was obljged to retire to Douai i 1580), where he was provid- ed with a ca licate and a theological chair. A zeal- ous Thomist. he bequeathed all his wealth to the Do- miuicans. lie died at Douai Feb. 26, 1630. Hi- works
are mostly Scholastic, With some eeelesiastieal hi-torv
borrowed from Baronius; the most carefully written are a commentary upon the Acts of the Apostles (Douai, lii-'J. 1 1<> '. and some Praceptiones /'■;/;<;> (ibid. 1625, 12mo). He prepared a good edition of the Sutnma of St. Thomas (ibid. Hill, fol.), and published the com- mentaries of Estius upon, the epistles of St. Paul and St. John (ibid. 161 H616, -J vols. fol.). See Foppeus, Bibl. Belgica : Paquot, Mimoires, vol. viii. — Hoefi i Biog, Generate, xxxix. 7.">7.
Petri, Laurent, one of the three principal Swed- ish Reformers, a brother of the following, was horn at CErebro in 1499. After having followed at Wittenberg the teaching of Luther and Melancthon, on his return to Sweden he spread the principles of Reform in that coun- try. Appointed by Gustavus Vasa professor of theology in the University of Upsala, of which he became rector in 1527, he was elevated in 1531 to the archiepiscopal chair of that city. He then undertook, witli the aid of his brother Olails and of Laurent Andrea, a Swedish translation of the Bible, based principally upon Luther's version, which was printed in 1541 i it is known under the name of Gustavus's Bible, and it lias contributed greatly to the development of the Swedish language. Scut in 1534 a- ambassador to the czar of Russia, he held, in the presence of that prince, a conference upon religion with the patriarch of the Russian church: the discussion took place in Greek; hut the interpreter em- ployed by the czar to translate into Russian the words
of the interloc rs often did not understand the ab- stract terms used by Petri, and then told what passed through his head, until oi fthe assistants, who un- derstood Russian and Greek, disclosed the fraud by bursts of laughter. Petri, during the rest of his life, was occupied in consolidating Lutheranism in hi- own