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let womanly delicacy and dependence Keep
where the soft tyranny Of gentle influences
secures an undivided dominion, and pcrpetu-
atcs its sway by unconscious compulsion and |
invisible and impcrccptibe training, but let
the unsexed go to Bologna-the city of Pro-
pcrzia de Rossi, Novclla Ccldrri. Elijah tina !
Sirani, Catherine Nigri, Ant1nictta pinalla,
Diamantc Dolf Layinia Fontona, Novcla !
d'Andrea, Laura Bassi, Madonna Manzolina,
and Clotilda Tambroni. Novella d'Andrca
was the daughter Of Giovanni d'Andrea Pro-
lessor of law in the Univcrsity-an exceed
ingly pous mamie slept twenty years on the
ground, covered only with bear-skin, for
piety-and he was man of vast learning.
Pope Bonifacc called him hmea mund Qight
of the world); and in his epitaph he is writ
ten down RaJb doctorun, iur, censor, norma
que morum( the chief of learned men, thelight,
censor and the pattern of manners Novella,
the daughter, had the fathers learning and
ability, and when the learned and sanity
Professor, from rheumatism, caught under
the bear-skin, or some other cause, was una
BILE to lecture, the daughter took her fathers
place, and delighted the students with her
learning and cloqucnce. She was of surpass-
ing beauty, and her father plainly saw that
jurisprudence and pious Standardization
would both be at discount in his classes. if
they were allowed to gaze On Novella and,
indeed, they might stare her out of countc-
nance, for she was IL pattern of virtue. So he
made arrangements to have curtain
Drawn before her,
Lest, if her charms were seen, the students
Should let their young eyes wander on her,
And quite forget their Jurisprudence"
or of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy,
whose lectures were attended regularly by
classes of learned ladies from France and Ger
many as well as Italy, and also by men who
were members of the University. Her monu-
ment, conspicuous among others in the Uni
versty, records Gin latin,) her rrolessorship
and that, having emulated the Bologncsc Ia
dies of old who were ilustrious by their learn
| ing, she had there renewed the ancient glory
of her sex and greatly increased it, and that
the matrons of Bologna had, by their contri-
buttons, raised that monument to her honor.
She died in ITS, aged &C.
Another fine monument perpctuatcs the
fame of Clotilda Tambroni, chosen ii Profess
or among the Doctors OF the University, for
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her distinguished ability as the teacher of the
Greek language, and as a pattern of every
virtue. Her colleagues and her pupils hon
orcd her with that monument in 1878. She
was the friend and predecessor of the great
Polyglott Cardinal MtzzoGinti. These
two monuments are among the monumental
marbles that are raised in the University to
the celebrities that have been connected with
that celebrated Summary.
Madonna Manzoina graduated with great
eclat in Surgery, and subsequently was Pro-
fcssor of Anatomy. As we stood in the ana
tonical theatre, (scats for about 200,) we
could not help thinking how strange it would
look to American OF English eyes to see lady
demonstrating from the rndaver to "a mixod
class of gentlemen and lady medical students,
the structure of the human body.
Poor Properzia de- Rossi She baSan by
sculpturing large figures in wood. She passed
from that to the beautiful and delicate art OF
sculpture upon nut-shcls, and finally to
sculpture in stones and marble. She PAINTED
beautifully, and engraved on copper and on
wood, and she was a charming musician
jected her affection, she immortalizcd them
both and her story in her master-piecc Of
sculpture, bas-relicf of Joseph and Poti-
phar's wife. What Il parallel chosen by her
SELF 1t was her last work. Determined to
transfer to the marble that likeness of hei
hearts idol which existed in her exalted i'm
OF the alarmed young patriarch, the effort
ovcrcame her, and her hcart-strings broke
Pope Clement VII, had just performed the
coronation of Charles V, in the Church o
San Pctrovio, and was admiring that marvel.
Gus monument of her genius, and requested
her to accompany him to Rome, as fittel
place for the display of her powers. Tn,
poor, lovc-sick maid, who had achieved thu
most brilliant success in every thing but he
unfortunate love, replied to His Holiness, tina
in that Church must be her funeral and sh,
died as the words fell from her lips.
Yours &c., f.. {.