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GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN. 37...
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Four Female Professors Of The University...
tlie first to notice tliem _, and lie took upon himself her elementary instruction . This intelligent and assiduous care was richly
combecame pensated irlhood so b she y proficient the translated rapid in progress Latin at si and ht made Greek and hy commented his , that young , scarcel pup on il y the , arrived who classic soon at
g authors . , Constant application to g those , great masters nourished and strengthened her mindand she drew thence that solid erudition *
, elegance that vitality of diction of conception , which , in that more conci mature seness of years style distinguished and that severe her
writings Tacconi , initiated her teaching her into and the her mysteries private of conversation speculative . science Professor , and
she followed him eagerly in the study of metaphysics and of natural p app hilosop lied herself hy—these with being rare pertinacity her particular . In deli a few ght years , and in she to his which had made il
she-. strenuous such rapid and progress sometimes that victorious the master competitor encountered in the discussions pupa which arose between them on various subjects of
ontologyphysi-, ology and method , or on the interpretation of certain passages in the works of the most celebrated hilosophers .
Taeconi , the daily witness of the p extraordinary mind and of the marvellous progress made by this young girl , pondered how best to
lift her out of the obscurity of domestic life , and to bring her into fellow the common public citizens country arena , they , in Perhaps mi order ght that be he led alread , her to talent utilize saw s in them once Laura for made the the future known benefit apostle to of her the
of science in the . university . Meanwhile y he redoubled his assiduity and his lessonsand in accordance with Laura ' s parents he decided
that her abilities , and learning should be tested by some of the leading for this professors office than . Grisostomo Nor could more _Trombelli competent and Francesco men have Zanotti been chosen _, the
century latter being both one as a of writer the most and illustrious a man of science Italians . of But the they eighteenth had to
duced combat to , the consent strongest to their repugnance lans . Naturall in Laura modest before she her could soul shrunk be iny ,
from notoriety ; praises and p fame possessed no attractions for her , foundest she sought satisfaction no other reward which for arises her from studies the save investi that gation purest of and truth pro- ; lead
but to the ceaseless entreaties of her master and the powerful pwas sustain ings compelled of the her professors part to in yield , a was . publi added It c was the hilosop decided authority hical therefore discussion of her father that . , she " and The should Laura rare
p Count spectacle Fantuzzi of so " much seemed talent to necessitate and learning that the in public a woman exhibition , _" says
thereof should be , associated with special solemnity , so the experiment was made in the immense hall of the palace of the Anziani , in the Cardinal
pero presence of other Lambertini literary of the , legate men Archbishop ; of Cardinal various , of the Girolanio cavaliers Gonfaloniere Grimaldi and of , of a the , largo Anziani porti Pros on , and of -
Gallery Of Illustrious Italian Women. 37...
GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN . 371
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/11/
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