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GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN. 37...
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Four Female Professors Of The University...
phieal Pope , sufficiently superior to tlie prejudices of the clerical hierarchy to inculcate the study of the Civil History of Naples , by
Pietro Giannone , ( a work afterwards placed in the index of prohibited books ) and to accept Voltaire ' s dedication of his " Mahomet . " " We
render you , " writes Pope Benedetto XIV to Voltaire on the reception of the tragedy" due thanks for such singular goodness towards
, ourselves , assuring you that we entertain due esteem for your distinguished talents . " September 14 th , 1745 . To this same Pope ,
Agnesi sent a copy of her Institutes , which he thus acknowledged ; " the study of analysis was undertaken by us in the first flower of
our youth : we know sufficient therefore to feel the importance of these studies , and the glory of our Italy in having children who
devote themselves to them . Having read the heads of your chapters , and some of the articles on the analysis of finite quantities ,
inasmuch as we are capable of passing judgment thereon , we frankly declare that you rank among the first professors of analysis , that
your work will prove most useful , that it will contribute to the literary reputation of Italy and of our Academy of Sciences at
Bologna , of which , to our great satisfaction , you are elected member . " June 21 st 1749 . In the next year , the Pope named Agnesi
hono-, rary Professor of Mathematics at the University , and with a very un-pontifical courtesy replied to her thanks . " We love our
University of Bologna and hold it in due esteem , and this has ever induced us to preserve for it all possible honors—from this desire arose the
decision which we have taken , that on you shall be conferred the Professorship of Mathematics , and the consequence is , that you ought
not to thank us , but that we ought to thank you . " September 26 th , . 1750 . ( 8 )
The Analytical Institutes were translated into French by D' Antelmy , with notes by Bossut ; and Colson , Professor of Mathematics at
Cam-( 8 ) The following is the text of the diploma dictated by the Professors of the Legate University This of di Bologna loma was , and transmitted by the Senate to A in gnesi the elegantl presence of inscribed the Pope on ' s
parchment . , with the p seal of the University attached by a golden y cord . " Die quinta Octobris , 1750 . Congregatis Illmis . et excelsis , D . D .
Camera Reformatoribus Emi . et Rmi Statu . s Domini Libertatis Cardinalis Civitatis Legati _Bononiee , in ejns in prsesentia _numerovi , g ac inti de sex _ipsiiis in consensu ct yoluntate infrascriptum Partitum inter censeant ipsos positnm litteraria et legitime
id obtentum menti fait Sanctissimi videlicet . — Domini Patres no Conscri stri _Papse pti cum Benedicti Decimi sere Q , uarti summi esse , Mediolanen Pontificis que maxime siscuis respondere in Universa si Anal Maria ysi peritiam Cajetana egreg Agnesi ium , hac _Nobilis de re Yirgo opus
editum luculentor , testatur _caeteris Analysis Professoribus publicis Archigymnasii consulentes Rotulis , atque adjungatur una Clementissimi . Propterea Princi ejtisdem pis libertissime _Archigyjmnasii omni _obsequentes dignitati ia
favorabilia voluntati , per nomen hoc _praefataa Senatus _Marise Consultum _Cajetanas obtentum Agnesi per in pnblicis a _siiifrag _Archi-Eonorarise gymnasii , Botulis immediate ad Analysim describi pnblice mandarunt legendum . Contrariis _tamqiiam hand _Lsetricis
obstannomen tibus quibuscumque . —Ita est . Ego Angelus _Micheel Lotti Illmi . et excelsi Senatus Bononi _?© a Secretis .
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GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN . 379
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/19/
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