DOMINIE SAMPSON, the schoolmaster in Sir Walter Scott's 'Guy Mannering.) DOMINION OF CANADA. See CANADA. DOMINIQUE. See Dominic& DOMINIS, Marco Antonio Italian theologian and ecclesiastic: b. Arbe, an island in the Adriatic, 1566; d. Rome, 8 Sept.
1624. He studied in the college of the Jesuits at Loretto and in the University of Padua, and was made bishop of Segni in the state of Venice, 1596, and archbishop of Spalatro or Spalato 1598. Here he projected schemes for the reformation of the Church and unification of Christendom, but came into disfavor at the Roman court and had to quit, take refuge at Venice, where he made the acquaintance of Bedell, chaplain of the English embassy, after ward bishop of Kilmore in Ireland. De Dominis accompanied Bedell to England where he was regarded as a convert to Anglicanism, and through his influence obtained from King James the deanery of Windsor and other places in the Established Church. He was zealous for the overthrow of the papal system and published in London (1617) a work in Latin, 'De Repub lica designed to prove that the Pope possesses in the Church only a primacy of honor, not of jurisdiction. In 1619 was published his translation into English of Fra Paolo Sarpi's 'History of the Council of Trent.)
His avarice made him unpopular in England, and in 1620 he opened negotiations with a view to a return to the ancient faith; and was finally brusquely ordered to leave the kingdom. He returned to Rome 1622, at the instance of the Spanish Ambassador at London, who led him to believe that he would be welcome there and would be raised to the cardinalate. He had published at Brussels a recantation of his sub scription to the Anglican articles of religion, but his hopes of honors at Rome were disap pointed, and in letters to his friends in England he recanted his recantation: but the letters never reached their destination, having been seized by the papal officers. He was thrown into prison by order of Urban VIII and there died 1624. After his death he was adjudged a heretic: his body was disinterred and burned, and the ashes thrown into the Tiber. In 1611 was published his tract, 'De Radiis Visus et Luces in Vitris Perspectivis et Iride' ('Of the Rays of Vision and Light in Perspective Glasses and the Rainbow'), in which is probably for the first time propounded the true theory of the rainbow.