Pitman, John Rogers, an English divine, noted as a classical scholar and general litterateur, was born about 1782, and was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1804. He became preacher at Berkeley and Belgrave chapels, and in the Foundling and Mag- dalen hospitals, and perpetual curate of St. Barnabas Church, Kensington. He died in 1870. Of his publi- cations, we mention Excerpta ex variis Romanis Poetis (Bond. 1808,8vo) -.—Practical Lectures on St. John (1821, 8vo ; supplement, 1822, 8vo) : — Sermons for the Year (1825, 2 vols. 8vo ; 2d series, 1828) -.—Practical Commen- tary on the Sermon on the Mount (1852). Mr. Pitman also edited the works of Dr. Eightfoot (1822-25, 13 vols. 8vo), and Bingham's Oriyines Ecclesiasticce (1810, 9 vols. 8vo).
Pitri (Sanscrit, i. e. father') is the name affixed in Hindu mythology to the deified progenitors of mankind, supposed to inhabit the orbit of the moon.
Pits (or Pitseus\ John, D.D., an English divine, noted as a biographer, was born at Alton, in Hampshire, A.D. 1560. He received his early education at Win- chester School, whence, at the age of eighteen, he was elected a probationer fellow of New College. Oxford; but in less than two years he left the kingdom as a volun- tary Romish exile, and went to Douai. He went thence to Rheims, and a year afterwards to the English college at Rome, where he studied seven years, and was then ordained priest. He returned to hold the professorship of rhetoric and Greek at Rheims. Towards the end of 1590 he was appointed governor to a young nobleman, with whom he travelled into Borraine, and afterwards went through Upper Germany and Italy. He subse- quently returned to Borraine, wHere he was preferred to a canonry of Verdun. When he had passed two years at his new residence, Antonia, daughter of the duke of Borraine, who had married the duke of Cleves, invited him to Cleves to be her confessor. He continued in her service twelve years, till her death, when he returned a third time to Borraine, and was promoted to the dean- ery of Liverdun, where he died in 1616. The leisure he enjoyed while confessor to the duchess of Cleves enabled him to compile a work which has given him great re- nown. The Lives of the, Kings, Bishops. Apostolical Men. and Writers of England (four large volumes). The first contains the lives of the kings, the second of the bish- ops, the third of the apostolical men, and the fourth of the writers. The three first are preserved in the ar- chives of the collegiate church of Verdun; the fourth only was published after his decease, under the title of Joannis Pitsei A ngli, S. Theoloyice Doctoris, Livt rduni in Lotharinyia Decani, Relationum Ilistoricarum de Rebus Anglicis Tomus Primus (Paris, 1619 and 1623, 4to), but the running title by which it is most frequently quoted is " De Illustribus Anglire Scriptoribus." In this work Pits took much from Bale's book, Be Scriptoribus Ma- joris Britannia, without acknowledgment, pretending at the same time to abhor both Bale and his work. He also quotes Beland's Collectanea de Scrijytoribus Anglice, which Wood asserts he never could have had the means of perusing, but must likewise have taken at second hand from Bale. His partiality is also great. He VIII.— Q
leaves Wickliffe and his followers, together with the Scotch and Irish writers, entirely out of his work, and in their room gives an account of the Roman Catholic writers, such especially as had left the kingdom after the Reformation in queen Elizabeth's time, and settled at Rome, Douai, Louvain, etc. This, however, is the best and most valuable part of Pits's work. He published three small treatises, which are less known : Be Leyibus- (Trier, 1592) -.—Be Beatitudine (Ingolstadt, 1595) -.—Be Peregrinatione (Diisseldorf, 1601, 12mo). The last is dedicated to the duchess of Cleves. See Bioyr. Brit. s. v. : Dodd, Ch. Hist.; Allibone, Bict. of Brit, and A met: Auth. s. v.; Enylish Cyclop, s. v.; Wood, A then. Oxon. ii, 173.
Pitt, Christopher, an English divine, noted espe- cially as a poet, was born in 1699 at Blandford, Dorset- shire ; was educated at Winchester and at New College, Qxford; and, after taking holy orders, obtained the family living at Pimpeme, where he passed his life, be- loved and respected for his suavity of manners and gen- eral benevolence. He died in 1748. His works are of a secular character. See Allibone, Bict. of Brit, and A me?: A uth. s. v.
Pittoni, Giambattista, an Italian canonist, was born at Venice in 1666. He took holy orders and was a priest, and resided in turns at Rome and Venice. He died Oct. 17, 1748. He compiled with great order a collection of the pontifical constitutions and of the de- cisions of the different Roman congregations ( Viterbo, 1745 and ensuing years, 14 vols. 8vo), which is held in great esteem. He left also, Vita di Benedetto XLII (Venice, 1730, 4to) : — De commemoration! omnium fide- Hunt defunctorum (ibid. 1739, 8vo) : — Be octavis festo- rum (ibid. 1746, 2 vols. 8vo) ; etc.
Pittori, Lodovico Bigi (in Batin. Pictorius), a
modern Latin poet, was born in 1454 at Ferrara. He cultivated with some success philosophy and theology, but his favorite study was Latin poetry. The only de- fect of his Latin poems is a kind of monotonous facility. We mention of his works, Candida, a poem (Modena, 1491, 4to) : — Tumultuariorum carminum lib. vii (ibid. 1192, 4to) : — Ckristianorum qpusculorum lib. Hi (ibid. 1496 or 1498, 4to) : — Epigrammata in Christi vitam (Mi- lan, 1513, 4to): — In coelestes proceres hymnorum epita- phiorumque liber (Ferrara, 1514, 4to) : — Sacra et saty- rica epigrammata (ibid. 1514, 4to): — Epigrammata mo- ralia lib. ir (Modena, 1516. 4to) ; a collection of ser- mons in Italian. All these works have become very rare. Freytag and David Clement have given a com- plete list of them.