or Trent, a town of the Austrian empire, capital of a circle in the Tyrol, stands in a beautiful situation on the Adige, 25 miles N.W. of Venice. Seen from a distance, it has a very picturesque appearance, with embattled walls, large ruined castle, and numerous towers and spires. The streets are broad and regular, and the houses well built, for the most part in the Italian style. In the middle of a handsome square there is a fine marble fountain; and down many of the streets there run canals of pure water. The cathedral is a very fine edifice, entirely of marble, in the Byzantine style. The church of St Maria Maggiore, a modern red marble building, occupies the site of the council chamber, now destroyed, where the celebrated Council of Trent sat (1545-63); and has a painting with portraits of all the members. Trent has also a town-hall, several monasteries, an hospital, a number of silk-mills and distilleries, and an extensive trade in silk, wine, and brandy. It was the ancient Tridentum, and was a Roman colony and an important city in the middle ages, when the bishops were independent princes. Pop. 12,900.

river of England, rises in Staffordshire, four miles N. of Burslem; flows in an irregular course, at first S.E. then E., and finally N.E. and N., through the counties of Derby, Nottingham, and Lincoln; and after a course of 170 miles, unites with the Ouse to form the estuary called the Humber. It drains an area of 4082 square miles; and receives the Dove, Derwent, Idle, and Tarn, from the left, and the Tame, Soar, and Devon, from the right. The Trent, Trent is navigable by vessels of 200 tons to Gainsborough, and by barges to Burton.

Trent, Council of, in Ecclesiastical History, denotes the council assembled by Paul III. in 1545, and continued by twenty-five sessions till the year 1563, under Julius III. and Pius IV., in order to correct, illustrate, and fix with perspicuity, the doctrine of the church, to restore the vigour of its discipline, and to reform the lives of its clergy. The decrees of this council, together with the creed of Pope Pius IV., contains a summary of the doctrines of the Roman Catholics. These decrees were subscribed by 255 clergy, consisting of four legates, other two cardinals, three patriarchs, twenty-five archbishops, 168 bishops, besides inferior clergy. As 150 of these came from Italy, the council was entirely under the influence of the pope. For a more particular account of the Council of Trent, see the elaborate histories of Sarpi, Pallavicino, and Bungener. For the history of this council, a great mass of materials was collected by Le Plac: Monumentorum ad Historiam Concilii Tridentini potissimum illustrandam spectantium amplissima Collectio. Lovani, 1781-7, tom. 4to.