Radnorshire

Radnorshire, a county of S. Wales, bordering on Montgomery, Shropshire, Hereford, Brecknock, and Cardigan; area, 432 sq. m.; pop. in 1871, 25,430. The chief towns are Presteign, Knighton, Radnor, and Rhayader. The Wye is the principal river. The surface is mountainous, the highest point being 2,163 ft. above the sea; but the S. E. part is in general level. A great portion of the county consists of common bog and moor land. Numbers of small ponies are reared. The county was anciently inhabited by the Silures.

Radom

Radom, a government of Russian Poland, bordering on the governments of Kielce, Piotr-ków, Warsaw, Siedlce, and Lublin, and bounded S. E. by Austrian Galicia; area, 4,768 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 532,466. It is drained by the Pilica and Vistula, which bound it on the north and west, and east and southeast respectively, and their affluents. The soil is diversified, and the surface the most elevated in the kingdom of Poland, being mountainous in the S. E. part. The government of Kielce on the southwest was separated from it in 1866. The capital, Radom, is in the N. part on a small tributary of the Vistula, 60 m. S. of Warsaw; pop. in 1867, 10,944.

Raf

See Caf.

Rafael Georg Kiesewetter

Rafael Georg Kiesewetter, a German author, born at Holleschau, Moravia, Aug. 29, 1773, died near Vienna, Jan. 1, 1850. He was for many years referendary of the aulic military council at Vienna. His works include Geschichte der europaisch-abendlandischen, das heisst unserer heutigen Musik (Leipsic, 1834; 2d ed., 1846), which has been translated into English. He also wrote works on Dutch, modern Greek, and Arabic music. He published a catalogue (2 vols., Vienna, 1847) of his collection of ancient music, which latter he bequeathed to the imperial library at Vienna.

Rafael Hadziewicz

Rafael HADZIEWICZ, a Polish painter, born at Zamek, near Lublin, in 1800. He exhibited in 1829 "Marius on the Ruins of Carthage" and "St. Stanislas," and perfected his art in Paris and in Italy. On returning to Poland he executed pictures for the cathedral of Warsaw, and became professor in that city after having held for five years a chair at the university of Moscow. He excels in religious and historical subjects.

Raffaelle

See Raphael.

Raffaellino Dal Colle

Raffaellino Dal Colle, an Italian painter of the earlier part of the 16th century, studied under Raphael and afterward under Giulio Romano, and was the assistant of both these artists. His manner of painting resembled that of Raphael. He worked for a time under the direction of Vasari. Among his paintings are a picture of the "Resurrection," in the church of St. Roc-co at San Sepolcro; an "Assumption," in the church of the Conventuali at Citta di Castello; a "Nativity;" and two pictures representing scenes in the life of St. Benedict, painted in fresco, in the chapel of the Olivet monks at Gubbio. Raffaellino is considered one of the best masters of the school of Raphael.