ROVIGO  , a

town of Venetia, Italy, capital of the province of Rovigo . It stands on the low ground between the lower Adige and the lower Po, 50 M. by rail S.W. of Venice and 27 M . S.S.W. of Padua, and on the Adigetto Canal, 17 ft. above sea-level . Pop . (1901) 6038 (town); 10,735 (commune) . It is a station on the line between Bologna and Padua, with branches to ing December, and again in Edinburgh 1576 and Stirling 1578 . Legnago and Chioggia . The architecture of the town bears Meanwhile he helped to compile the " Second Book of Discipline," the stamp both of Venetian and of Ferrarese influence . The and became more than ever opposed to the Episcopal system of cathedral church of Santo Stefano (1696) is of less interest than church government . He was a considerable scholar and is said La Madonna del Soccorso, an octagon with a. fine campanile, to have been the first to teach Hebrew in Scotland . He died begun in 1594 by Francesco Zamberlano of Bassano, a pupil of at Perth on the 16th of October 1580 . Palladio .

The town

hall contains a library including some His son JOHN Row (1568—1646), minister of Carnock, wrote rare early editions, belonging to the Accademia de' Concordi, a Historie of the Kirk of Scotland 1558 to 1637, which was con-founded in 158o, and a fair picture gallery enriched with the tinued to 1639 by his son, the third John Row (c . 1598—c . 1672), spoils of the monasteries . The Palazzo Roncali is a fine Re- rector of the Perth grammar school and then (appointed by naissance building by Sanmicheli (1555) . Two towers of its Cromwell) principal of King's College, Aberdeen, who, with his medieval castle remain . Wool, silk, linen and leather are father and grandfather was a famour Hebraist, but left the among the local manufactures . Church of Scotland to become an Independent minister . This Rovigo (Neo-Latin Rhodigium) appears to be mentioned as Historic was published by the Wodrow Society and by the Rodigo in 838 . It was selected as his residence by the bishop Maitland Club in 1842 . of Adria on the destruction of his city by the Huns . From ROWE, NICHOLAS (1674—1718), English dramatist and misthe 11th to the 14th century the Este family was usually in cellaneous writer, son of John Rowe (d . 1692), barrister and authority; but the Venetians took the place by siege in 1482 serjeant-at-law, was baptized at Little Barford in Bedford-and retained possession of it by the peace of 1484, and though shire on the 3oth of June 1674 .

Nicholas Rowe was educated the Este more than once recovered it, the Venetians, returning at

Westminster School under Dr Busby . He became in 1688 in 1514, retained possession till the French Revolution . In a King's Scholar, and entered the Middle Temple in 1691 . On 18o6 the city was made a duchy in favour of General Savary. his father's death he became the master of an independent The Austrians in 1815 created it a royal city . (T . As.) fortune .