FAIRFAX, Edward, one of the “improvers” of English versification.
Translated Tasso in the same stanzas as the original, and wrote on
Demonology (d. c. 1632)
Farnese, Alexander, Duke of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands under
Philip II. and the first commander of his age
Faunus, grandson of Saturn and god of fields and shepherds, later
identified with the Greek Pan
Faustina, Empress, (i) wife of Antoninus Pius; (ii) daughter of (i) and
wife of Marcus Aurelius. Both were equally licentious
Favorinus, a rhetorician and sophist, who flourished in Gaul, c. 125
A.D.