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NlCCOLO, the great violinist, was born in 1784. In 1805 Prince Eliza, Bonaparte’s sister, became his patrone , at Lucca, and when he visited Vienna in 1828 his fame became world-wide. He died in 1840. 1767. His pamphlet, " Common Sense,” and periodical, “ The Crisis,” g^vehlm a title to be considered one of the founders of American Independence. In 1787 he was prosecuted in England for his "Rights of Man” (an answer to Burke’s “ Reflections on the French Revolution ”), but he escaped to France. He lost his popujarity there by defending Louis XVI,, and was imprisoned in 1793. He remained in France till 1802, and died in America in 1809, where his work against revelation, the '* Age of Reason," had lost him most of his friends.