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(Bryan's Diet. Biog. Univ. Lanzi, &c.) He had a brother, Giovanni Battitta, who painted much in his style, but excelled principally in landscape. He died in 1668. ALBANY, (L. M. C. A., Countess of, 1733—1824,) the mistress of Alfieri. She was a native of Mons, was the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, prince of Stolberg-Goedern. She was educated in a Flemish convent, and in 1772 she was united to prince Charles Edward, the last of the Stuarts, under the auspices of the courts of Versailles and Nap...les, which guaranteed them a sufficient re- venue. Her husband was thirty-two years her senior ; and she was separated from him in 1780. (See Alfieri.) On the death of Alfieri, in 1803, the countess caused a superb monument to be erected to his memory in the church of Santa Croce, at Florence, under the direction of Canova. She also published a very fine edition of his select works. ALBAQUI, general of the Moriscos of Granada, who, incensed at the perse- cutions they had sustained from their Spanish victors, elected a prince of their own nation, and fought for independence in the mountain fortresses of that pro- vince.
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