Fox, George, and Naylor, James, contemporaries of Bunyan, and early
leaders of the Society of Friends or “Quakers,”
Fracastorius, Italian philosopher, mathematician, and poet ranked by
Scaliger as next to Virgil
Fraguier, Pere, an eminent man of letters, sometime a Jesuit. An elegant
Latin versifier, especially on philosophical themes (1666-1728)
Franc de Pompignan, Advocate-General of France, an Academician and an
opponent of Encyclopaedists, in consequence of which Voltaire lampooned
him (1709-84)
Franche Comte, that part of France which lies south of Lorraine and west
of Switzerland
Freron, took sides with the Church against the attacks of Voltaire; had
some reputation as a critic (d. 1776)
GALLIENUS and Honorius, late Roman emperors who suffered from barbaric
invasions
Galt, John Scotch custom-house officer and novelist, wrote The Ayrshire
Legatees, The Provost, Sir Andrew Wylie, etc.
Galway, Lord (Macaulay is not quite so severe on him in his History of
England)
Ganganelli, who as Clement XIV. held the papacy, 1769-74, and suppressed
the Jesuits
George of Trebizond, a celebrated humanist (1396-1486), professor of
Greek at Venice in 1428 and papal secretary at Rome, C. 1450