Word: italian
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...afternoon, that the lecture-room is insufficient for the audience. If the evening readings could now and then be varied by lectures of a literary character, the authors read would be listened to with doubled interest. Most undergraduates are as profoundly ignorant of all that concerns the French, Italian, and Spanish literature as they are of German literature, and, having no acquaintance with the languages, are obliged to remain in ignorance of a great deal that is indispensable for every fairly well-informed man. That a large number of the ladies of Cambridge would lend their presence to swell...
...Italian, 2. Natural History...
...Italian...
LUIGI MONTI, ESQ., formerly Professor of Italian in Cambridge, is at present delivering lectures on Modern Italian Literature at the Lowell Institute. The lectures take place every Wednesday and Saturday evenings, and are of great merit...
...clothes, and he hardly knew how they were cut. He could n't tell the difference between cider and champagne, - much less between a real Havana and a domestic descendant of old sogers. He positively was not sure whether Signora Murfini of the Howard Athenaeum was really an Italian, or only a runaway daughter of old Murphy, the Irish tailor. He measured everything by its price, and I need not tell you that he was the most ridiculous young gentleman (citoyen) that I ever had the pleasure of knowing. It is possible, of course, that your friend is not this...