Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-14
ages Of ninety-one. ninety-five and nin'
-y-six resp ctiveiy.
Too Beautiful to Look Upon.

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Lucret.a Cornaro was not the only f.
nous woman OF her period IN Italy. No
vella Andrea who graduated from tho
of Bologna i'm l32,. more thaa
lIo years before. was also famous for her
legal learning. although she never 2rac-
ticed law. She lec.ured I'm the law
schools at Padua. Pavia and o'sa. where
her father was q professor and there
was so little difference In the ieat ning oc
the daughter and tha father that she used
to take his place in the lecture room fire.
quently. Brf she was so beautiful that
the faculty required her 20 ST. behind a.
screen or wear a heav, Welt TO conceal
her features TOT fear OF disfracting ths
minds OF the Students.
Giovanni Andres. the father. was tie
most learned au'h"~'ty on legal questions
in all Italy in tho s~,rteen.h century.
and wrote severa' tr.-atisrs IN which hs
was assisted by MS daughter But he
was dwarf and extremely sensitive
about his stature. Pope Boaiface VIII
sent for him tn come TO Rome and re-
cSived him Wit, g'ea. aono. in the pres
ence OF the college o" cardinals. He
was SO sh',rt that he pope supposed
..e was kneeling. and three times asked
him to rise before he discovered the
mistake. Inc cardinals were SO amused
That they laughed out In meeting. and
Andrea was so mortified that he .nme-
diately left the Vatican. and never
lectured on law at various universities
for forty-Six years. His tomb may he
seen I'm the Church Of the Doininicans at
Bologna.
An Extraordinary Woman.
In the same century fifty or sixty
women in Italy were famous for learn
ing, and to inspire the ambition OF tho
sex the states of1ered prizes for such
accomplishments. Then. later. through
the prejudice Of the priests and political
leaders, learning among women hogan t.
decline, and We hear nothing more OF
scholarship among that sex until Marie
Gaetanna Agnesi appeared at Bologna.
&c was one of the most extraordinary
women Of all history. Her father was
professor of mathematics I'm the Uni
versity of Bologna. where she was born
in 111S. When nine years old she wrote
book In Latin on the Responsibilities
OF Womanhood." and advocating the
higher education OF women: when thir-
and when she was eighteen they called
Ter the walking polyg,ot," because
there was no language that she did not
know She used to appear before the
on abstruse subjects. She wanted to be-
come nun. but her father persuaded
her to renounce such inclinatisns. ana
she retired from society and gave her
self up to study until her learning was
prodigious. Her memory was so re-
tentive that she could quote pages OF
figures and could give the date OF any
historical event offhand.
She wrote a book on THE Analysis OF
Finite Quantities" and a second volume
on THE Analysis of Infinitesimais. Both
were translated into French, German and
English. and used as text books tr the
European universities. She was also the
author OF a text book on comic .ct:ons
In, I<,o linfX tod l1<at.
to succeed her father when he retired as
professor of mathematics at the Ui.iver-
sity of Bologna, but, when he died two
years later, she was released from the
her original desire by joining tie aastere
sisterhood Of the Blue Nuns. She became
mother superio- and conducted its af-
fairs until her death in 1879.
Her sister, Maria Teresa Agnesi, was
equally famous i'm music.
There have been other women pro-
fessors of similar fame at the University
Of Bologna. Laura Bassi held the chair
of mathematics and physical sciences
during the early part of the xhteenth
century, and Mime. Mancoana was
demonstration in anatomy in the medical
school at the same time. Clotilda Tenn
broni occupied the char OF ~ eek from
1894 to 1917 and was Que o: the greatest
linguists of her period.
There has never been any scholarship
in Venice, however-only art. Industry,
commerce and politics. The neighboring
cities of Padua and Bologna have been
Italy.
University of Bologna.
The University Of Bologna is the oldest
In Italy. having been founded in 11l9. and
still stands at the head OF Italian An
situations. In 1908 there were 2ll pro-
fessors in the faculty and 1000 students
In the several schools Of art, philosophy.
general science, engineering. Law. iLedi-
cine, pharmacy and agriculture. The
schoo of Jurisprudence at Bologna Is
the oldest In the world. and in the mid
die ages was attended by students from
Great Britain and from all the countries
on the continent The medical s.hool
was equally famous. The ANATOMY OF
the human frame was first taught there
in the fourteenth ceptury, and paivan-
ism was discovered there by DIR. Gaivani
i'm 1883. The most famous linguis. ever
known in Italy was Giuseppe Me-zofanti.
professor of oriental languages ana pre-
feet Of the library. At the age II thirty
six he is said to have been ahl~ TO read.
write and speak eli hteen lang .~es flu
emily. and at the time Of has Death he
could read. write and speak Iorty-two
languages.
At one time there were 10on students
at 30 oena, and at the HEIGHT Of rs rane
it was the best known educational tisti-
tuition in the world.
Costly Material in st. Marks.
There is more costly material In the
CON position of st. Marks Cathed al titan
was ever put in any ether bu!iG-ng in
GLIDING 500 columns Of marble from the
quarries Of Asia and Africa as well as
Italy, and not less than 1850 square feet
Of mosaic work. nearly all glass AMI soid
Leaf. More money has been expended
upon ST. Marks than upon st. Peters at
Rome. Some OF the columns came from
the heather temples of Greece. some from
churches erected by the crusaders in the
HOLY Land. Four columns of alabaster.
nine feet high anu eiaht inches n dame
ter, SO translucent that the flame OF
candle can be seen through them. sup
port q canopy over an altar. Tradition
says that they were originally in the
hottest of holes Of the Temple OF Solo
mon. They were b ought from Jerusa-
lem in the ninth century. There are sew
eral pillars from tine Phoenician temple
at Tyre. The stone of the altar in the
baptistry is believed to be that upon
which Christ stood at the transfsura-
ton. It was brought from Mount Tabor
at a very early date. One OF the bronze
doors OF St Marks used to hang In the
Mosque of ST. Sofia at Constantinople,
and a famous golden altar piece. called
Lapala Orc, made &C heavy plates OF
gold thickly studded with pearls. dia-
monds and otter precious stones. was
brought from Constantinople by one of