a town of Italy, in the Campagna di Roma, with a bishop's see. It is the capital of a principality of the same name, and the bishop is one of the fix cardinal bishops. It was anciently famous for the temple of Fortune, being then called Praeneste, and seated on the top of a mountain, the ruins of which may yet be seen. E. Long. 12. 55. N. Lat. 41. 51.

is one of the largest and most populous of the islands called the Lagunes near Venice, and where the most considerable of the noblemen have houses of pleasure. It is 15,000 paces in length and 400 in breadth; the principal harbour has also the same name.