centre of conspiracy at Malta, endeavoured to dissuade Mazzini from the Bandiera enterprise, but aided Crispi in organizing the Sicilian revolution of 1848. With a company of volunteers he distinguished himself in the defence of Venice, afterwards proceeding to Rome, where he took part in the defence of San Pancrazio. Upon the fall of Rome he returned to Malta, accumulating arms and stores; which he conveyed to Sicily; after having, in 1859, worked with Crispi to prepare the Sicilian revolution of 1860. While Garibaldi was sailing from Genoa towards Marsala Fabrizi landed at Pizzolo, and, after severe fighting, joined Garibaldi at Palermo. Under the Garibaldian Dictatorship he was appointed governor of Messina and minister of war. Returning to Malta after the Neapolitan plebiscite, which he had vainly endeavoured to postpone, he was recalled to aid Cialdini in suppressing brigandage. While on his way to Sicily in 1862, to induce Garibaldi to give up the Aspromonte enterprise, he was arrested at Naples by Lamarmora. During the war of 1866 he became Garibaldi’s chief of staff, and in 1867 fought at Mentana. In parliament he endeavoured to promote agreement between the chiefs of the Left, and from 1878 onwards worked to secure the return of Crispi to power, but died on the 31st of March 1885, two years before the realization of his object. His whole life was characterized by ardent patriotism and unimpeachable integrity. (H. W. S.)
FABROT, CHARLES ANNIBAL (1580–1659), French jurisconsult,
was born at Aix in Provence on the 15th of September
1580. At an early age he made great progress in the ancient
languages and in the civil and the canon law; and in 1602 he
received the degree of doctor of law, and was made avocat to
the parlement of Aix. In 1609 he obtained a professorship in
the university of his native town. He is best known by his
translation of the Basilica, which may be said to have formed
the code of the Eastern empire till its destruction. This work was
published at Paris in 1647 in 7 vols. fol., and obtained for its
author a considerable pension from the chancellor, Pierre Seguier,
to whom it was dedicated. Fabrot likewise rendered great service
to the science of jurisprudence by his edition of Cujas, which
comprised several treatises of that great jurist previously unpublished.
He also edited the works of several Byzantine
historians, and was besides the author of various antiquarian
and legal treatises. He died at Paris on the 16th of January 1659.
FABYAN, ROBERT (d. 1513), English chronicler, belonged to
an Essex family, members of which had been connected with
trade in London. He was a member of the Drapers company,
alderman of Farringdon Without, and served as sheriff in 1493–1494.
In 1496 he was one of those appointed to make representations
to the king on the new impositions on English cloth
in Flanders. Next year he was one of the aldermen employed
in keeping watch at the time of the Cornish rebellion. He
resigned his aldermanry in 1502, on the pretext of poverty,
apparently in order to avoid the expense of mayoralty. He
had, however, acquired considerable wealth with his wife
Elizabeth Pake, by whom he had a numerous family. He spent
his latter years on his estate of Halstedys at Theydon Garnon in
Essex. He died on the 28th of February 1513 (Inquisitiones
post mortem for London, p. 29, edited by G. S. Fry, 1896); his
will, dated the 11th of July 1511, was proved on the 12th of July
1513. Fabyan’s Chronicle was first published by Richard
Pynson in 1516 as The new chronicles of England and of France.
In this edition it ends with the reign of Richard III., and this
probably represents the work as Fabyan left it, though with
the omission of an autobiographical note and some religious
verses, which form the Envoi of his history. The note and verses
are first found in the second edition, printed by John Rastell in
1533 with continuations down to 1509. A third edition appeared
in 1542, and a fourth in 1559 with additions to that year. The
only modern edition is that of Sir Henry Ellis, 1811.
In the note above mentioned Fabyan himself says: “and here I make an ende of the vii. parte and hole werke, the vii. day of November in the yere of our Lord Jesu Christes Incarnacion M. vc. and iiij.” This seems conclusive that in 1504 he did not contemplate any extension of his chronicles beyond 1485. The continuations printed by Rastell are certainly not Fabyan’s work. But Stow in his Collections (ap. Survey of London, ii. 305-306, ed. C. L. Kingsford) states that Fabyan wrote “a Chronicle of London, England and of France, beginning at the creation and endynge in the third year of Henry VIII., which both I have in written hand.” In his Survey of London (i. 191, 209, ii. 55, 116) Stow several times quotes Fabyan as his authority for statements which are not to be found in the printed continuations of Rastell. Some further evidence may be found in other notes of Stow’s (ap. Survey of London, ii. 280, 283, 365-366), and in the citation by Hakluyt of an unprinted work of Fabyan as the authority for his note of Cabot’s voyages. That Fabyan had continued his Chronicle to 1511 may be accepted as certain, but no trace of the manuscript can now be found.
It is only the seventh part of Fabyan’s Chronicle, from the Norman Conquest onwards, that possesses any historical value. For his French history he followed chiefly the Compendium super Francorum gestis of Robert Gaguin, printed at Paris in 1497. For English history his best source was the old Chronicles of London, from which he borrowed also the arrangement of his work in civic form. From 1440 to 1485 he follows, as a rule with great fidelity, the original of the London Chronicle in Cotton MS. Vitellius A. XVI. (printed in Chronicles of London, 1905, pp. 153-264).
Fabyan’s own merits are little more than those of an industrious compiler, who strung together the accounts of his different authorities without any critical capacity. He says expressly that his work was “gaderyd without understandynge,” and speaks of himself as “of cunnynge full destitute.” Nevertheless he deserves the praise which he has received as an early worker, and for having made public information which through Hall and Holinshed has become the common property of later historians, and has only recently been otherwise accessible. Bale alleges that the first edition was burnt by order of Cardinal Wolsey because it reflected on the wealth of the clergy; this probably refers to his version of the Lollards Bill of 1410, which Fabyan extracted from one of the London Chronicles.
See further Ellis’ Introduction; W. Busch, England under the Tudors (trans. A. M. Todd, 1895), i. 405-410; and C. L. Kingsford, Chronicles of London, pp. xxvi-xxxii (1905). (C. L. K.)
FAÇADE, a French architectural term signifying the external
face of a building, but more generally applied to the principal
front.
FACCIOLATI, JACOPO (1682–1769), Italian philologist, was
born at Torriglia, in the province of Padua, in 1682. He owed
his admission to the seminary of Padua to Cardinal Barberigo,
who had formed a high opinion of the boy’s talents. As professor
of logic, and regent of the schools, Facciolati was the ornament
of the Paduan university during a period of forty-five years.
He published improved editions of several philological works,
such as the Thesaurus Ciceronianus of Nizolius, and the polyglot
vocabulary known under the name of Calepino. The latter work,
in which he was assisted by his pupil Egidio Forcellini, he
completed in four years—1715 to 1719. It was written in seven
languages, and suggested to the editor the idea of his opus
magnum, the Totius Latinitatis Lexicon, which was ultimately
published at Cardinal Priole’s expense, 4 vols. fol., Padua, 1771
(revised ed. by de Vit, 1858–1887). In the compilation of this
work the chief burden seems to have been borne by Facciolati’s
pupil Forcellini, to whom, however, the lexicographer allows a
very scanty measure of justice. Perhaps the best testimony to
the learning and industry of the compiler is the well-known
observation that the whole body of Latinity, if it were to perish,
might be restored from this lexicon. Facciolati’s mastery of
Latin style, as displayed in his epistles, has been very much
admired for its purity and grace. In or about 1739 Facciolati
undertook the continuation of Papadopoli’s history of the
university of Padua, carrying it on to his own day. Facciolati
was known over all Europe as one of the most enlightened and
zealous teachers of the time; and among the many flattering
invitations which he received, but always declined, was one from
the king of Portugal, to accept the directorship of a college at
