Leonidas
a son of Anaxandrides, brother, Cleomenes I., about 491 в. c.
When the Persian monarch Xerxes apimmense army, Leoni- Thermopylæ (480 B. c.) with a force of das opposed him at the narrow pass of 300 Spartans, and rather more than 5,000 auxiliaries. The Persians attempted in vain to win over Leonidas by the promise of making him ruler of the whole of Greece; and when Xerxes sent out a herto lay down their arms, the Spartans answered: "Let him come and take them." The treachery of to bar any longer the progress of the one Ephialtes having made it impossible sent away the auxiliary force, threw foe, Leonidas and his little band, having themselves on the swarming myriads, and found a heroic death.
ONIDAS del Consiglio in the moria with important ions. Michael Angelo of " Soldiers Surprised Leonardo dealt with ri" (1440). Two the preparation of ng employed a the plaster which n 1506, abandoned on is now lost. ted the most celeasel-pictures, the Lisa, third wife of a work purchased 00 gold florins, and chief treasures of the work, now lost, porbeauty Ginevra On Divine Propord 60 geometrical hand. ed by Louis XII., Michael Angelo the façade of Ban The young French wed on him in 1516, the Château Cloux, it was here that the May 2, 1519.
O, BUGGIERO, born in Naples, Italy, an was friendly with many years resided as is, where he composed ve pieces. About that his trilogy of Italian " Medici" is the first uced, in Milan, in 1892, in 1898, "Medici." "La Bohème" (1897), and "Der Roland 19. cceeded his halfabout 491 B. C. ch Xerxes aparmy, Leoni the narrow pass of .) with a force of rather more than 5,000 Persians attempted in Leonidas by the promise ruler of the whole of rxes sont out a hereaks to lay down their answered: "Let him The treachery of er the progress of the auxiliary force, threw warming myriads, LEONISTS