ISBN: 9781458930910

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. First Day. Bologna; Monday, iithjune. After my rigorously short letter of " necessity and mercy" of yesterday, despatched at midnight, I sit down a few minutes later, and take Monday by the forelock with a view to gather up some of the lost chords of the last few days. At the Students' Reception Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. First Day. Bologna; Monday, iithjune. After my rigorously short letter of " necessity and mercy" of yesterday, despatched at midnight, I sit down a few minutes later, and take Monday by the forelock with a view to gather up some of the lost chords of the last few days. At the Students' Reception of yesterday, to which Count Aurelio Saffi (famous as one of the founders of Italian independence) kindly invited us to go, Sir William Muir, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, in his robes and with his Star of India, and Mr Constable, of Edinburgh, robed in the handsome and becoming new mauve gown of the Students' RepresentativeCouncil, were also present. The latter duly presented his address, but was not called on to speak, as the number of orators was necessarily very limited. Both he and the Principal, their official capacity being rapidly whispered through the dense crowd, received quite an ovation. Perfect order and propriety prevailed, coupled, however, with intense enthusiasm. The number of students must have nearly reached a thousand, and each was decorated or costumed or capped in distinctive fashion-the Germans being facile principes in pic- turesqueness. Rarely, if ever, in the world's annals has so interesting an assemblage met together, and certainly none with nobler purpose. Faces of every complexion, with features Italian, Greek, French, Saxon, and Slavonic, in many cases strikingly handsome, beamed with delight as each successive speakerdwelt on the renaissance of learning inaugurated by the Studio Bolognese, and her message of liberty, peace, and goodwill to the student-brotherhood throughout the whole world. As yet, sad to say, I have been unable to discover a single students' representative from Great Britain, except our own Books, History~~General, The-Octocentenary-Festival-of-the-University-of-Bologna~~John-Kirkpatrick, 999999999, The Octocentenary Festival Of The University Of Bologna, John Kirkpatrick, 1458930912, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781458930910

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888. Excerpt: ... THE OCTOCENTENARY ADDRESS. By Professor Giosue Carducci. I. In presence of your Majesty, who represent the sovereignty of the Italian people now united in one free country, the city of Bologna worthily commemorates to-day the foundation of its University, the harbinger of the new birth of Italy from the ruins of her ancient greatness into her second history. And in this commemoration, when we behold with admiration the light of the greatest glory of thought and knowledge in the world resplendent to-day in presence of the Crown of Italy, our hearts beat with love and inexpressible gratitude: with love for the ancient and sacred name of Italy; with gratitude to all who have suffered, fought, and died with the object of restoring that name to honour among the nations. And so to-day we can commemorate the noble deeds of our ancestors without fear of cavil, and we look forward with honest confidence to the future. Ii. To our ancestors of the eleventh century, while Europe scarcely showed symptoms of emerging from an age of iron, is due the glory of reconciling the H modern blood with the ancient, and of re-uniting Italian vigour with Roman good sense. Never indeed had the spirit of Roman culture sunk to a lower ebb; law alone, the last gleam of the setting sun of Italy, illumines the Gothic obscurity and flashes at intervals through the legislation of the Lombards. At Rome, however, the imperial school of arts and jurisprudence continued to exist; in Greek Italy the School of Ravenna preserved the Books of Justinian, and cherished the juridical culture of the East; and in Lombard Italy the School of Pavia was proceeding to found a system of Germanic Law upon the ancient Jus Romanum. And when Roman culture, like a civil dictatorship over the Christian nations, ... John Kirkpatrick, Books, The octocentenary festival of the University of Bologna Books This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Law / General; Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Law / Constitutional; Law / International; Law / Reference; Literary Collections / General; Literary Collections / Essays; Travel / Essays & Travelogues;<

ISBN: 1458930912