province of Italy, in the territories of the church; bounded on the north by Umbria, on the east by Farther Abruzzo, on the south by the Campagna of Rome, and on the west by the patrimony of St Peter. It is 22 miles in length, and almost as much in breadth; watered by several small rivers, and abounding in oil and wine. There is no walled town in it, and Magliano is the principal place.

Sabinius (George), a celebrated Latin poet, born in the electorate of Brandenburg in 1508. His poem Res gestae Caesarum Germanorum, spread his reputation all over Germany, and procured him the patronage of all the princes who had any regard for polite literature; he was made professor of the belles lettres at Frankfort on the Oder, rector of the new academy of Königsburg, and counsellor to the elector of Brandenburg. He married two wives, the first of which was the eldest daughter of the famous reformer Melanchthon; and died in 1560. His poems are well known, and have been often printed.