(Pietro Francesco), an eminent painter, was born, according to most authors, at Lugano, a city belonging to the Switzers, in the year 1609. Others affirm, that the place of his birth was Coldra, in the district of Como. He was at first the disciple of Giuseppe d'Arpino, and afterwards of Albano. When he quitted the school of the latter, he went to Venice, and studied assiduously the pictures of Titian, Tintoretto, Bafan, and Paolo Veronese. He painted historical subjects and landscapes with great success; but his genius seemed more particularly adapted to the latter. His pictures, in both styles, are spoken of with the warmest commendations. He died in 1665.—He had a brother, Giovanni Batista, who was also a painter, and of some merit, but very inferior to that of the older.

an ancient town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, and in the Terra di Lavoro, where they pretend to show the ruins of Cicero's house. It is situated on the gulf of Venice, in E. Long. 17° 50'. N. Lat. 41° 5'.

Mola Salfa, (Salt Cake), in antiquity, was barley parched, and afterwards ground to meal or flour, then mixed with salt and frankincense, with the addition of a little water. Thus prepared, it was sprinkled between the horns of the victim before it was killed in sacrifice. This act was called immolatio, and was common to the Greeks as well as Romans; with this difference, that the mola of the Romans was of wheat. The Greeks called it ἀναγκή or ἀναγκήν.