Ferrara

A kind of sword manufactured at Ferrara, in Italy. The most thoroughly tempered were stamped with the name of the manufacturer, Andrea di Ferrara, and were called Andrew Ferraras. Ferrarese', a . Pertaining to Ferrara, in Italy. Ferrarese', n. sing . and pl . An inhabitant of Ferrara; the whole body of its inhabitants. Ferra'ri, LUDOVICO, an Italian mathematician, B. 1522, at Bologna, where he became profe or. He was a pupil of Cardan, and the discoverer of the method of resolving bi-quadratic equations. D. 1566. Ferreira, ( fer - ri'ra ,) ANTONIO, a poet ranked by the Portuguese as one of their cla ic authors, was B. at Lisbon, 1528. He carried to perfection the elegiac and epistolary style, and his Inez de Castro is the second regular tragedy that appeared after the revival of letters in Europe. D. 1560.