(Peter), an eminent Florentine paint- er of night-pieces and battles, was employed to paint the Vatican. He drew several portraits, and wrote on arithmetic and geometry; he died in 1458.

FRANCFORT on the Main, an Imperial and Hanseatic town of Franconia in Germany. It is a hand- some, strong, and rich place, and has a great deal of commerce, but is built after the ancient taste. Here the golden bull is preserved, which is the original of the fundamental laws of the empire. The emperor is generally elected here, unless the plague or war will not admit of the solemnities proper to the occasion. It is seated in a fine fertile plain, in E. Long. 8° 40' N. Lat. 49° 55'.