Vitus, Domenico an Italian engraver, is said to have been born about 1536, and to have become an inmate of the Monastery of Vallombrosa, in the Apennines. His prints possess considerable merit, among which may be named St. Bartholomew (1576): —St. Joachim Holding a Censer, after A. del Sart: —and a set of small plates representing the Passion of our Saviour. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More