country, ami in organizing the new Church, of which
he was one ofthe principal founders. He was \ ei v be- neficent and distinguished himself advantageous!} over hi- brother by Ids conciliatory spirit which did not pre- vent him from addressing to Eric X I V. in 1567, a severe
reprimand on the subject of the murder ofthe Sture,
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Petri died in 1573. We have of his works. Vera: ac justce rationes quare regnum Suecice Ckrislierno cuptiro, DaniiE olim regi uc ejus heredibus nihil debeat (Stock- holm, 1547, 4fo) : — Postille sur les Evangiles (ibid. 1555, 1041, 8vo) : — Refutatio D. Beurei perlinens ad articulum de Cana Domini (Upsala, 1503) : — Discipline de VEglise Suedoise (Stockholm, 1571, 4to); a work which, by a de- cision of the Diet of 1572, obtained the force of law : — Sermons sur la Passion (ibid. 1573, 8vo) : — several other Sermons, and liturgic, polemical, and dogmatical works. See Schinmeier, Lebensbeschreibung der drei Si-hn-i dischen Reformatoren, Andrea, Olaiis und Laurent Petri (Lubeck, 1783, 4to) ; Hallman, Lefvernes beskri- fing ofver Olaiis och Lars Petri; Biographisk-Lexikon ; Alaux, La Suede sous Gustave Wasa (Paris, 1801). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, xxxix, 755. Comp. Fisher, Hist, of the Ref. p. 176 sq. ; Gieseler, Eccles. Hist, iv, 276.
Petri, Olaiis-Phase, a Swedish theologian, was born at CErebro, in 1497: the son of a blacksmith, he received his early education among the Carmelites of his native town, together with his brother Laurent, with whom he attended the University of Wittenberg, where they embraced the doctrines of Luther. On their return to Sweden, in 1519, they began, after hav- ing as by a miracle escaped from the executioners of Christian II, to propagate the ideas of the Reformer. Appointed in 1523 rector of the school of Strengniis, Olaiis won to his opinions the archdeacon Laurent. An- drea, and, through the mediation of the latter, Gusta- vus Vasa appointed Peter preacher at Stockholm. In his sermons and in divers conferences he attacked the old religion with an increasing ardor. The first among all Protestant ecclesiastics in Sweden, he was publicly married in 1525. After having assisted at the Diet of Vesterixs in 1527, where he had a dispute upon religion with the professor of Upsala, Pierre Galle, whom Gus- tavus declared to have been conquered, he entered more and more into the favor of the king, who consulted him upon the most important affairs, and finally appointed him his chancellor. In 1539 Petri, tired of business, exchanged his duties for those of first pastor of the cap- ital. The following year he was condemned to death for not having revealed, in 1536, the conspiracy formed against the life of the king by some citizens of the Han- seatic villages, one of whom had confessed to him. He purchased his pardon for a large sum. Three years after the king reinstated him in his office of pastor, and he kept it until his death, which occurred at Stockholm in 1552. He joined to quite extensive and varied learn- ing great activity and a captivating eloquence, but he never spared his adversary, and often degenerated into abuse of a bold and rash character. He may be called the Luther of Sweden, while his brother Laurent, milder and more moderate, was the Melancthon. We have of Petri's works, in Swedish, treatises on Marriage of Ec- clesiastics (Stockholm, 1524, 1528, 4to) : — the Difference between the Eoangelical Faith and the Roman (ibid. 1527, 1605, 4to) :— on the Duties of the Clergy and the Laity (ibid. 1528, 4to) :— on the Inconveniences of the Monastic Life (ibid. 1528, 4to) : — Postills on all the Evangelists (ibid. 1530): — Introduction to Sacred Scrip- ture (ibid. 1538, 4to) : — some Sermons, Odes that are still sung in Sweden, and several other theological writings. Petri has left in manuscript some Memoirs upon the history of his country, which remained unpublished because Gustavus found them written with too much independence ; one copy of which, preserved in the Royal Library of Paris, has been analyzed by Keralio in the Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits, vol. i. — Hoefer. Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxxix, 754. See also the references under the preceding article.
Petri, Pietro de', an Italian painter, was born in Premia, a district of Novara, in 1071. He studied under Carlo Maratti at Rome, and painted some works for the churches in that metropolis. Lanzi says he formed a
style of his own by engrafting on that of Maratti a por- tion of the manner of Cortona. He did not. however, obtain the reputation which his merits deserved, on ac- count of his infirm health and extreme modesty. His best works are a picture of The Crucifixion, in the* church of SS. Vincento e Anastasio, and some frescos in the tribune of S. Clemente. He was called at Rome rfe' Pietri. Orlandi calls him a Roman, others a Spaniard; but Lanzi says he was a native of Premia. He died at Rome in 1710, in the prime of life. There are a few etchings heretofore attributed to him, but Bartsch gives them to another artist of the same name. See Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the Fine Arts, ii, 080.