I'MOLA, INNOCE'NZIO DA, a pupil of Francis, and a distin guished painter, of the early half of the 16th century. His family name was Francucci; he was born in the latter part of the 15th century at Imola, whence his surname, but he lived chiefly at Bologna. He painted from 1506 until 1549 : Vasari says he died aged fifty-six, but this is apparently an error, or he must have commenced to paint when ouly thirteen years of age. However, about 1506, he was placed with Francis, and, according to Vasari, he studied also with Alberti nelli at Florence. In 1517 he produced what is now considered his masterpiece. It is a large picture, now iu the Academy at Bologna, hut formerly over the great altar of San Michele in Bosco, representing in the lower part, the Archangel Michael vanquishing Satan, Saints Peter and Benedict at the sides, and above in the clouds the Madonna and Child surrounded by angels ; the whole is treated much in the second manner of Raffaelle. It has been engraved by A. Marchi for the 'Pinacoteca di Bologna.' Thera is also a very superior work by him in the cathedral of Faeuza. Da Imola's style is termed by Lauzi Raffaellesco, and it appears that several of his works have passed for the works of Raffaelle, that is, for works of his second style. He was also a good fresco painter.
INA, called also INAS, and IN, king of the West Saxons, and one of the most distinguished kings of the heptarchy, was tho son of Cenred, whose descent is carried up through Ceolwald, Cutha; and Cuthwin, to Ceawlin, the third king of Wessex, the son of Cenric, and the grandson of Cerdie, the founder of the monarchy. Thera are some difficulties however about this account of tho genealogy of Ina, on which see a note in Sir F. Palgrave's 'Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth,' part i., p. 408. He succeeded Ceadwalla, but how is not known, in 699, In the lifetime of his father Cenred for a collection of lave which he published in the fifth year of his reign are stated in the introductory paragraph to have been enacted with the advice of Cenred and other counsellors. These laws of Ina, which are probably in great part ratifications of older laws, are seventy-nine in number : by them, to quote the summary of Dr. Lingard, " he regulated the administration of justice, fixed the legal compensation for crimes, checked the prevalence of hereditary feuds, placed the conquered Britons under the protection of the state, and exposed and punished the frauds which might be committed in the transfer of merchandise and the cultivation of land." The first of the
great military successes of Ina was achieved against the people of Kent, who, some years before his accession, had slain Mello, the brother of Ceadwalla, but who, with their King Wihtred, were, in 692, forced to submit to Ins, and to pay him the full were, or legal com pensation, for the murder of Aiello, which the Saxon Chronicle states at 30,000 pounds of silver, and Malmabury, certainly by a great ex aggeration, at 30,000 marks of gold. In 710 we find Ina engaged in war with the Britons of Cornwall, under their king Gereut or Geraint (in Latin, Gerontius or Geruntius), whom he finally subdued, and even, it is said, compelled to resign his dominions. A subsequent contest with Ceolred, king of Mercia, was terminated, in 715, by the battle of Wodnesbeorhe, where however it is doubtful which side obtained the victory. The last years of Ina's reign were disturbed by the attempts of several pretenders to the throne—one of whom, called the Atheling Cynewulf or Cenulf, was slain in 721; and another of whom, called Eadbyrht, after being driven from the castle of Taunton, in which he had in the first instance fortified himself, was placed at their head by the people of Sussex, and was not finally put clown till 725, after a war of more than two years' duration. In 728 Ina, on the persuasion, it is said, of his wife Ethelburga, who was a daughter of King Esewin, the predecessor of Ceadwalla, resigned his crown in the Witenagemut, and retired to Rome, where he appears to have lived for a few months in obscurity, and to have died before the expiration of tho year, his own death being soon followed by that of ids wifo. There seems to be no truth in the story told in the History ascribed to Matthew of Westminster, that ho founded an English ichool or oollege at Rome, and established for its support tho tax :idled first Romeecot, and afterwards Peter's Pence. He was however great benefactor of the church ; and the abbey of Glastonbury in particular was indebted to him for ample augmentations both of its revenues and its privilege& He is of course a great favourite of the monkish historians; but In this instance their panegyrics seem to have been deserved by the real merit. of Ins, both as a warrior and a legislator.