The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-04
BY FRANCES MARSHALL.

BY FRANCES MARSHALL.
Raphael. most popular OF all painter
of religious subjects, and most famou
Of all the bearers of the angel names
heads a list which includes such namc
as that of Gabriel Fallopio. one of thu
founders of modern anatomy; Angel;
Burdctt- -Coutts, THE richest woman o.
her day in the whole world; Gabrle
Mlraboau, strongest orator of The
French revolutions; Gabriel Fahrenheit
the man who established the present
method of registering heat, and Gabrle
D D'Annunzio, one of the greatest of mod
ern playwrigbts. 1t includes, too, q
saint or two, several minor painters
writers, philanthropists, educators, sci
entists-ln fact, representative OF
note in almost every field of endoavor
and taken all in all group of men and
women worthy to bear even the names
of the angels.
Raphael Santi was born at Urbino. in
Italy in 1883. His father was a painter
OF some worth, and the boy began to
draw and paint almost as soon as he
began TO talk. At Rome, where he
went when he was about twenty five,
he was already looked upon as an ar
tist of ability, and Pope julius II. com.
missioned hIm to redecorate several of
the rooms of the vatican.
The artist s task was difficult, but ii
was accomplished not only to the salts.
faction of the pope and the people of
Rome, but to the admiration OF later
generations. After Leo X. had sue
ceeded Julius. Raphael was made chief
architect Of st. Peters and was put
in charge of all the excavations of Ro-
man antiquities.
Raphael died of a fever caught in
the excavations. He was only thirty.
seven at the time of his death, on Good
Friday, April 6, 1920. but he had al
ready won not only place Of first
rank among the worlds painters, but
a place of so much love and respect
among the people of his own time that
all Rome mourned his loss.
The Sistine Madonna, Raphael's last
and greatest Madonna, was painted for
the little church of San Sisto at Pla-
cenza and the artist finished it lust
before his death.
Cornelius Gabriel Max called by his
middle name, born in Germany in 1S40,
historical painter; Archangelo Psladini
born in Italy Sn 1899, whose singing
and needlework rivaled her excellent
portrait painting, and Angelica Kauff-
mann, born in Switzerland in l741, who
spent much of her life in England and
who because of the worth of her his.
torical paintings and portraits was
elected a member of the Royal acad-
emy, are three bearers OF the angel.
names who have followed In Raphael s
footsteps.
In letters the names of the angels
have had no champion so we'll known
as Raphael, but nevertheless several of
them have been writers of ability.
Gabriel Harvey, the eldest of rope
makers six children, was born in Eng
land in l545- His father managed TO
let him go to Cambridge, and there
Harvey met the poet, Edmund Spenser,
with whom he formed life long friend
ship: It is said that Harvey nearly
spoiled Sponsors poems For Harvey
wrote in stilted and formal way little
suited to the poet, over whom he had
a strong influence.
man, and his hot temper and quick
tongue were continually getting him
into quarrels with other literary men
Of the day. In 1899 he had such a se-
we're quarrel with Thomas Nash, the
poet and dramatist. that the authori-
ties ordered that tfall Nashe's bookes
and DR.. Harvey's bookes be taken
whercsoever they may be found and
that none Of the same bookes be ever
printed hereafter" So Harvey, with
hrs books under ban, was forced to
retire from active literary work, and
seek solace In the study of physics and
astronomy
Gabriel Honore Mirabeau, more noted
for his oratory, was yet a writer of
note. He was born in l747 in France.
the second son of the Marquis de Mira.
beau, He studied under tutors until
nc became too unruly to manage at
home; then he was sent to q military
school, and eventually entered the army.
But his conduct and his love affairs
landed MIN IN prison several times, and
until the revolution he was constantly
in trouble
But the man who could not keen the
peace became a great man in time of
war. Some one has said that Napoleon
and Mlrnbeau were the two greatest
men of the French revolution, How.
ever that may be, Mirabeau' IS speeches
were listened TO and his pamphlets were
read when the French mob was too ex.
cited to listen to anything else. and
the work he did in behalf of reason
ableness and restraint helped to lessen
the horrors of the revolution. His writ.
ings arc in the shape Of histories, es.
says, pamphlets and translations
Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles
was mystery all his life, He came
TO America in 1929. and said that he
had spent his youth with the Greek
monks on Mount Sinai; whether his
name was assumed or real, no one could
tell, and he kept his age secret. His
only. confdants. in his forty years Of
life In this country, were his chickens.
Evnngelinus Sophoclcs always re-.
tained a simplicity and a severity of
mnnner which spoke of the quiet days
spent In the rigid mountain monastery
But he was well liked by the students
at Amherst and Harvard who came un-
der his influence. His Kindness of
heart was as profound as his learninp
and his charitableness as persistent as
nus taciturnity; He died in 1888, after
writing several books.
Gabrielle Rossetti, born in Italy in
1883. father Of the poet and painter