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GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN. 37...
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Four Female Professors Of The University...
sterile schools of rhymes and scribes , devoid of genius , of patriotism , and without consciousness of the sanctity of literature , were once whounder
foci of sciencecentres of association for men of letters , , the asp enriched ired . influence towards the , world given intellectual with by the countless regeneration reformation invention , whose and s the and communion revival discoveries of of letter . idea ? It - s ,
suffices to mention the Academy of the Lincei in Rome , of which Galileo was memberand of Cimento in Florence , instituted in
1637 where the eminent , natural philosophers Viviani and Borelli on were the , the among compressibility first the notions academicians of of air the , on . true projectiles The experimental experiments , on sound of method , thi and s . Academy on light ,
gave Nor did Laura confine herself to these speculative studies , but in of enjoyed the Italian fourth a fair poetry volume fame , " as p of . poetess A 628 gostino in , its etc . . Some Gobbi lowest But of , " Italian her Additions compositions of poetry decline to , the during still collection To exist the the
bombastic eighteenth and century preposterous , was exaggerations stage of the writers . of the seventeenth century ( called the seicentisti ) succeeded the effeminate
, , neither empty verses the past of the nor Arcadians the present , — , rh and ymes equall devoid y guiltless of ideas of , embod aspirations ying existedthe Arcadians wrote
towards the future . As if no real world , fields of deserts , gentle , peop declivities led with , and nymp and meandering hs heroines and fauns of streams like , —revelle sweet . Phillis d in , Chloris flowery being ,
Menanderand other heroes names , all love-sick , swainsor forlorn or coquettish maidens . Italy was fairly deluged emasculated by versification pastoral , poems —for and poetry Id we yls , cannot and thi call s it— puerile responded and
exactl il y to for her her state future of moral while the prostration decrepit and Arcadians political sung degradati their last on .
odes Happ to y Phillis and Chloris , ,- —Monti , Parini , and Alfieri , were with their satire and their thunders , awakening the nation to a sense of
tion hex And * abasement and Laura her , profound . despite her studies powerful , wrote intellect poems , in her the abundant Arcadian imag mould ina- ;
and and , unfettered although here insp and iration there , we we cannot find , scattered in truth , gems assert den , that oting in free her
talents poetical found efforts opportunity she rose above for mediocrit fructifying y . in But more fortunatel fertile soil y , her . The real meritevinced the
sen desire ate that of Bologna she should , conscious be raised of to her the chair of s , philosophy . According strongest for )
must to the su rule stain s of a public the university debate on , every the subject candidate which he a seek professorshi s to teach _p , beforehand of B . YQ the disputants Gonfaloniere of the being matter ( suprem chosen he e by will mag lot be istrate , and called bound ) not on to by to inform treat oath . in the the This candidate presence debate she created
fessor having on been the 19 successfull th of October y sustained , 1782 . by On Laur this a , occasion was a medal pro was -
Gallery Of Illustrious Italian Women. 37...
GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN . 373
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/13/
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