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See Gozo. Gozzoli (got'sō-lē), Benozzo. Born at Florence, 1420: died at Pisa, 1498. A Tuscan painter. His chief work is the mural paintings in the Campo Santo, Pisa. Graaf (gräf), Regnier de. Born at Schoonhoven, Netherlands, July 30, 1641: died at Delft, Netherlands, Aug. 17, 1673. A physician and anatomist, author of works upon the pancreas, the generative organs, etc. His works include "De natura et usu succi pancreatic i" (1663), "De non null is circa partes gen i tales invent is nov is" (1668), "Tract at us de virorum organ is generation i in servient i bus, etc." (1668), "De mulierum organ is generation i in servient i bus, etc.' (1672), etc. The Graafian follicles were named from him. Graaf Reinet (gräf ri'net). The chief town of the Midland Province of Cape Colony, on Sunday River 184 miles from Port Elizabeth. Pop ulation (1891), 5,946. Graal, The Holy. See Grail. Grabbe (gräb'be), (gräb'be), Christian Diet rich. Born at Detmold, Germany, Dec. 11, 1801: died there, Sept. 12, 1836. A German dramatist, author of "Don Juan und Faust" (1829), “Fried rich Barb a ro a" and "He in rich VI." (1829-30), etc. Grabow-on-the-Oder (grä'bo-on-THE-ō'der). A town in the province of Pomerania, Pru ia, situated on the Oder 2 miles north of Stettin. Population (1890), 15,703. racchus (grak'us), Caius Sempronius. Killed at Rome, 121 в. с. A Roman politician, younger brother of the younger Tiberius Gracchus. He served under his brother-in-law Scipio African us Minor in Spain, and was questor in Sardinia 126-123, when he was elected tribune of the people. He renewed the agrarian law pa ed by his brother Tiberius, and brought forward a series of resolutions looking to the substitution of a pure democracy for the existing aristocratic republican form of government, securing the support of the proletarii of the capital by the regular distribution of grain at the expense of the state. He was reëlected to the tribuneship in 122, but failed of election in 121, in consequence of the opposition among all cla es to his project of extending the rights of citizenship to the Latins. He was killed in a disturbance which ensued in the city. Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius. Born about 210 в. с.: died middle of 2d century в. с. А Roman magistrate, distinguished as a general in Spain and Sardinia, father of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius. Born in 168 or 163: died 133 B. c. Roman politi cian, son of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Cornel i a, daughter of Scipio African us Major. He married Claudia, daughter of Appius Claudius, was the brother-in-law of Scipio African us Minor, whom he accompanied in his expedition against Carthage. He was appointed questor in 137, and as such served under the consul C. Hostilius Mancinus in the Numantine wa in Spain. He was elected tribune of the people for 133. At this period the cla of independent farmers of small holdings was rapidly disappearing from Italy. The land was being absorbed by the latifundia of the rich, and cultivated by slave labor; and the peasantry were forced to seek refuge in the cities, especially Rome, where they swelled the ranks of the unemployed. Gracchus sought to bring about a greater subdivision of the land and to restore the cla of independent farmers by reviving, with some modification, the Licinian law, pa ed in 367 but allowed to fall into abeyance, which limited the amount of public land that each citizen might occupy. His pro posals were carried in the comitia tributa in spite of the opposition of his colleague, who was deposed. At the end of his term he tried, contrary to the constitution, to secure reëlection, and a disturbance arose in consequence, in which he was killed with 300 of his followers by the optimates under P. Scipio Nasica. Grace (grās), William Gilbert. Born July 18, 1848. An English cricketer. He is especially distinguished as a batsman, but has the reputation of being the best all-round player hitherto known. By profe ion he is a physician. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. An autobiographical work by Bunyan, published in 1666. Grace Contract, The. The name given to an arrangement made between the government of Peru and the foreign holders of bonds of that nation, represented by Mr. Michael Grace. It was ratified by the Peruvian congre Oct. 25, 1889, and provided that the bonds, amounting to about $250,000,000, should be canceled. The bondholders received in return all the state railroads for 66 years, and important privileges connected with them, together with all the guano in Peru up to 3,000,000 tons, except that on the Chinch a Islands; the government also promised to pay the bondholders 80,000 pounds sterling annually for 30 years. The bondholders agreed to complete certain unfinished railroads and to repair the existing ones within a given time. The "Peruvian Corporation," formed to take charge of the railroads, etc., also took po e ion of the Cerro de Pasco silver-mines, transferred to it by Mr. Grace, who had received the conce ion. Graces, The Three. [Gr. pl. of The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century Cyclopedia of names IMG:content-0472.png:[ocr errors]