Albero'ni, Gulio

cardinal, and minister of the king of Spain, was the son of a gardener. B. in 1664, at Firen zuola, a village of Parma, and educated for the Church his first office was that of bell-ringer in the cathedral of Piacenza. Po e ed of uncommon talents, he soon became canon, chaplain, and favorite of the Count Roncovieri, and bishop of St. Donnin. The Duke of Parma sent him as his minister to Madrid, where he gained his tendencies were entirely of a pacific character, and all his pursuits aimed at exalting and refining the senti- ments, whilst ameliorating the condition, of the people. D. in London, Dec. 14, 1861. Albert N'Yan'za, a large lake of S. Central Africa, with its N. extremity in lat. 2° 45′ N. Length, 150 m.or upwards; breadth, 50 m.; height above sea-level, 2720 ft. This lake is one of the sources of the White Nile, and was discovered by Sir S. W. Baker, in 1864. Albert i, ARISTO TILE, an Italian mechanic, lived in the 16th century. He is said to have removed the entire tower of Maria del Tempio, at Bologna, to a distance of 35 paces. Albert i, CHERUB I NO, an eminent historical painter and engraver of Italy. B. 1552; D. 1625. Albert i, JOHN, a German lawyer, author of a Syriac grammar and other works. D. 1559. Albert i, LEONI BATTISTA, a distinguished mathemati- cian, but more celebrated as an architect, and hardly le as a philosopher, poet, painter, and sculptor. B. at Florence, about 1400. He was employed by Pope Nicholas V., and was the architect of several excellent works in Florence. Albert in ell i, MARIOT'TO, one of the finest of the early Florentine painters. B. at Florence, 1475: D. at the early age of 45, a victim of his di ipated habits. His best work is in the Imperial Gallery of Florence, and is known as The Visitation of Elizabeth to the Virgin. Albertite, n. ( Min .) A variety of Asphaltum . It occurs in rocks of the sub-carboniferous age in Nova Scotia, and is regarded as an inspi ated and oxygenated petroleum. It has a jet-black color. Al'bert Lea, in Minnesota , a city and R.R. center, capi- tal of Freeborn co., near a small lake of the same name, 100 miles S. by W. of St. Paul. Pop . (1890), 3,305. ing on the war against the Dutch, who had revolted Albert on, in Maryland , a post-office of Howard co. from Spain. He resigned the cardinalship and married Al'bert's, or Pennsylvania , a post-office of Luzerne co. Elizabeth of Austria, daughter of Philip II., who brought Alberts on, in Mi i ippi , a village of Tippah co., 16 him Flanders and Franche Comté as her dowry. In m. S. of Ripley. Albert, MARGRAVE OF BRANDENBURG, son of Casimir, Margrave of Culenbach, B. 1522. He entered into the confederacy formed by Maurice, elector of Saxony, and other princes, against Charles V., and committed many exce es in that war, burning towns, and levying heavy contributions wherever he marched. Subsequently a league headed by Maurice himself was formed against him, and, in 1553, a great battle was fought at Siverhus, in which Maurice was slain and A. wounded. He was afterwards put under the ban of the empire, and de- prived of his po e ions. D. 1558. Al'bert, CHARLES D', Duke de Luynes. See LUYNES. Al'bert Dü'rer. See DÜRER. Al'bert EDWARD, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Vic- toria, queen of England, and of her consort Albert, prince of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, B. Nov. 9, 1841. The principality of Wales gives the hereditary title to the eldest son of British sovereigns. Al'bertson's, in North Carolina, a post-office of Duplin co., about 80 miles S.E of Raleigh. Albert us Magnus, a learned Dominican. B. in Suabia, 1205. Pope Alexander III. invited him to Rome, and bestowed on him several dignities, which he afterwards abdicated, and returned to live at his con- vent at Cologne as a plain monk. He there gave public lectures which were much frequented. Thomas A quinas was among his disciples. A. died at Cologne, in 1282, aged 77. His knowledge of nature and science was so great that he was accounted a magician. He was the first to write an Encyclopedia of Knowledge, for which, with his other performances, he has been styled "the Great." Others say that he was so called because his family-name was Groot , which, in Dutch, means great ; the admiration of an ignorant age having transformed into a laudatory epithet the surname, which had been Latinized in conformity to the then prevailing fashion. There are collections of supposed Secrets , which have erroneously been published under his name. His Werks, in 21 vols. folio, were printed at Lyons, in 1615. Albescent, a. [Lat. albescens, from alb us , white.] Becoming white or whitish; moderately white. Al'bi. See ALBY. Al'bia, in Iowa , a town of Monroe co., situated in a fertile farming district, 60 miles S.E. of Des Moines. It is the cap. of the county. Al'bion, in S. Carolina , a village of Fairfield district. about 35 m. N. of Columbia. Albicore, n. [Fr.] ( Zool .) A large species of fish of the mackerel family, common in the Mediterranean; the Bonito, or Horse-mackerel. Alb if i cation, n. [Fr. from Lat. alb us , white.] The act of making white. (0.) Albigen's es, n . pl . ( Eccl . Hist .) The general name of several religious sects which appeared in the south of France, in the 12th century, and were the object of long and cruel persecutions and wars. The two principal -a township of Howard co. branches of A. were the Cathari and the Val lenses, or a post-village of Marshall co., about 52 miles N.E. of Albion, in Illinois , a town, cap. of Edwards co., 170 m. S.E. of Springfield. It has a high and salubrious situation, and po e es several imposing public build- ings. Al'bion, in Indiana , a town, cap. of Noble co., 26 m. N.W. of Fort Wayne. Al'bion, in low a , a township of Butler co. Al'bion, in Maine , a township of Kennebec county, 26 m. N.E. of August a. Al'bion, in Michigan , a city of Calhoun co., on the Mich. Cent. & Lake Shore and M. S. R.Rs., 96 m. W. of Detroit. Has extensive plow factory and other in- dustries. Pop . (1898) 5,120. Waldenses, who agreed in opposing the dominion of the Roman hierarchy, and endeavoring to restore the sim- plicity of primitive Christianity. They were denomi- nated A. , from the district Albigeois , (territory of Alby, q. v..) where the army of the Cro , called together by Pope Innocent III., attacked them in 1209. This war, the first which the Roman Church waged against here- tics within her own dominions, was carried on with much cruelty by the legates Arnold and Milo, and by the military leader Simon de Montfort, who at last was killed at the siege of Toulouse, in 1218. The war, never- the le , lasted till the year 1229, when the Count of Toulouse, Raymond VII., the principal sustainer of the Buffalo. Al'bion, in Rhode Island , a post-village of Providence co., 11 m. from Providence. Albion, in Wisconsin , a village and post-township of Dane co., about 25 m. S.E. of Madison. rius III. to take the field in person. Ref . Fauriel, Albion, in Ohio , a post-village of Ashland co., about Croisade contre les Albigeois , (Par., 1838); Faber, Inquiry into the History and Theology of the Val lenses and Albigenses, (Lon., 1838.)-See CATHARI, WALDENSES. Albinism, and Albin'oism, n. [From Lat. alb us , white.] The state or condition of an Albino. Albinos, n. pl. (Physiol.) A word by which the Portuguese denominated the white negroes whom they found on the coast of Africa. These negroes were also termed Leucæthiopes , white negroes. Both names are now used to designate individuals who exhibit charac--a township of Jackson county, about 44 m. N.E. of La teristics similar to those observed in the white negroes, Cro e. among whatever race or in whatever country the variety may arise. The skin of these singular beings is of a pearly whitene , without any mixture what- ever of a pink or brown tint. The whitene of the hair always corresponds to the whitene of the skin; and with this whitene of skin and hair is connected a disagreeable redne of the eyes, which are exactly similar to those of the white rabbit and the ferret. The Al'bion. (New.) the name given to California by Sir Francis Drake; limited by Humboldt to that part of the N.W. coast of America which extenes from. Lat. 43° to 48° N., which was subsequently divided into Oregon and Washington.