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Four Female Professors Of The University...
also her Immense correspondence on matters connected with science , with the most celebrated professors of Europe—among them Jacquier ,
, the Abbe Nallet , Frisio , P . Beccaria , etc . Her European celebrity rendered her the object of curiosity to all
strangers who passed through Bologna , and among her illustrious visitors we find the Elector of Bavaria , ( afterwards the Emperor
Charles VII , ) the Elector of Colonia , the Prince of Craun , the heir apparent of Brunswickthe son of Augustus IIIKing of Poland ,
the Prince of Modena , , Prince Albert of Saxony , , the Princess Christina of Austriathe Emperor Joseph II , ( before whom , in the
halls of the Institute , , she made many of her experiments , ) the mathematician Montigny , of the Paris Academy , etc . etc .
Laura became the wife of Giuseppe Verati , and the mother of twelve children , and all her biographers concur in hailing her as a
perfect mother , wife , and housewife . " This marriage , " writes Fantuzzi " has but added another charm to her womanhood ,
without , violating her individuality , or deteriorating her scientific labors ; so skilfully does she unite her family duties and her
studies , that alternately toiling with the needle and her spindle , and with her lectures and her booksshe bravely sustains a numerous
, family , provides for them , superintends them , establishes them in life , and adapts herself so entirely to domestic economy and to the
duties of a good mother , that one would take her for a simple , lace woman . It is incredible what by her own toils she
has commonp done to provide for the wants of twelve children , out of whom seven are irls . " Laura's facethough slightly pock-marked , was
meanor pleasant serious and g gentle and , modest her eyes free , , dark from , bright si , and of fervid affectation , her de or - , any gn
vanity . The night previous to her death , 12 th of February , 1778 , she was present at a reunion in the academy .
Above the entrance to the Pathological Museum of the University her bustsculptured by Giovanni Lipparini after Calegari ' s design ,
, may yet be seen . On the 16 th of May , 1718 , Maria Gaetana Agnesi , was born in
Milan , of rich and noble parents , and having manifested from her earliest years , great vivacity of intellect and love of study , she was
placed under the care of first-rate masters . At the age of nine sho wrote and spoke Latin correctlyand composed an essay in the same
language , to the effect that women , ought not to be kept in ignorance of the ancient languages , which essay was printed in Milan in 1727 .
ori At ental the age languages of eleven . ¦ " she So sp thoroug oke Greek hly was fluentl she y acquainted , also several with of the the
language at this early age , " writes Count MazzuccheHi , " that she not only translated the Greek authors into Latin at first sight , but
spoke it with so much ease that she could not have expressed herself more elegantly in her native tongue . " ( 7 )
( 7 ) GUi Scrittori d' Italia etc ., Tom . I , part 1 .
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GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN . 375
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/15/
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