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GALLERY OP ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN. 36...
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Four Female Professors Of The University...
Caterina Laura Bassi , Maria Gaetana Agnesi , the last four , professors of tlie University of Bologna . It seems the destiny of that country ,
whose genius is only 'equalled by her misfortunes , to produce the seeds of the beautiful and the goodandinstinctively cosmopolitan ,
, , to sow them for other nations to fructify while she is ungratefully forgotten . For instance , none , save a few literary men in Europe ,
whisper the name of Giordano Bruno , yet he was the initiator of modern hilosophy ; of Francesco Bianchini , yet he traced the path
p to Dupuis for his work , " De Vorigine de tous les cultes ; " or of _Oiainbattista Vieoyet he is the creator of the Philosophy of History .
As an act of homage _, to Italy , our elder in civilization , and in order to furnish fresh grounds for hope and faith in the redemption of
women , which form one of the most manifest tendencies of the nineteenth centurywe purpose to revive the memories of some of
, the most remarkable Italian women , commencing with the professors . of the University of Bologna .
Bononia docet is the traditional motto of that ancient seat of human learning . As far back as the eleventh century , public
instruction was held in this university by Lanfranco di Pavia , afterwards Archbishop of _Canterbury , and from that period up to the close
of the eighteenth century , the most eminent professors have rendered it famous , ( 1 ) and in their midst , more than one woman has been
author ( 1 ) Among of the celebrated them we find lossary , in the of thirteenth the century juris civilis , Aceorso in which , jurisconsult divest- ,
ing which the they laws of the enveloped countless g he , confused subjcte , corpus d and them contradictory to a methodical _, interpretations and , uniform in
throug exegesis hout , and were Europe this , g until igantic superseded , work became e by the the labors text writes -book of Fili Andrea for the Villani Alciati tribunals ; in
distinguished the fourteenth himself century , in Dino art , del in p Grarbo hilosop , h " y the who , and , unanimous " in medical vote ppo science of the , that , uni " he so
was elevated to the professor ' s chair by - versity Guarino .- " of ( a ) Yerona in the the fifteenth _princixml century Helleni , sts Aldo during Manuzio the revival , Filelfo of letters , Aurispa : in ,
the the scholastic sixteenth century subtletie , i s Andrea which yet Alciati obscured , who , it separating , penetrated jurisprudence and explained from the and the studof inscri
tions sp wisdom irit and of the of monuments Roman laws , by leg the ; islation placing aid of more in history which especiall , work y he in was its y true first language lig : ht Carlo the , Si exalted gonio p-
an acute criticwho was the , first expounder ( chronologically speaking ) of , Roman antiquities , , and the first who irradiated Pietro the darkness which founder
obscured of the the school history of philosop of the hical middle criticism ages . and precursor Pomponazzi of , Voltaire ;
Grirolamo Cardanwho first worked equations , of the third degree , —it is an open question whether , he or Tartaglia Cardan was the author Ferrari of the the- method il of Cardan still
known who first by the solved title a of bi < < quadratic The formula equation of ; Ulisse ;"— Aldrovandi , pup , the' greatest , Buffon to be
meridian naturalist superior to of any of San the others Petronio age , ( , b ) whose in Ignazio Bologna works Danti In are , the astronomer pronounced seventeenth , author by century of the Griando grand
menico Cassini , who discovered four of . the satellites of Saturn . Bonaventura ,
( a ) Hist Le v . it Natur e d'Uomi . Discours ni illustri prelim Fioron . tini , p . 412 . Milauo , Bettoni , 1884 .
Gallery Op Illustrious Italian Women. 36...
GALLERY OP ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN . 369
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/9/
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