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...Gaetano Salvemini, formerly Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the universities of Messina, Pisa, and Florence, Italy, and since 1934 Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization at Harvard, has been reappointed to this post again for this year...
Enrico Fermi was born in Rome 34 years ago, studied at the University of Pisa, has taught and researched at the University of Rome since 1927. Short, wiry, dapper, cheerful, he is married, has a 5-year-old daughter, likes to ski, play tennis. Some years ago he perceived that when a nuclear impact knocks a neutron and a positron out of an electron, there is a mysterious disappearance of energy. He surmised that the excess energy rode away on a little particle which, now generally accepted as theoretically necessary, still eludes observation. It is because of Fermi that this...
Some two thousand years ago legend ran that a certain king of Pisa in Elis, OEnomaus by name, refused the hand of his fair daughter save to that gallant Greek youth who should beat him in a chariot-race. Suitor after suitor tried and failed, for OEnomaus was a skillful warrior--but at last and one must suspect with the help of Hymen--a young prince "from over sea", triumphed. That was Pelops...
...third year, Professor Gaetano Salvemini will be Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, Professor Salvemini served as Professor of History in the Universities of Messina, Pisa, and Florence, 1901-1925. From 1925 to 1933, when he came to Harvard, he taught at several universities in England and America...
...coincidence, says he, a full understanding of Dante is impossible. But anybody can at least partly understand the few known facts about him. Though of gentle birth, his father was a moneylender. Like every upstanding Florentine Dante was an active citizen, fought for his town against Arezzo and Pisa. In the battle of Campaldino he admitted that "he experienced great fear." When the political pendulum swung the other way Dante was first banished from Florence, later condemned to death. But he was never captured; he spent his 20 years of exile roaming over Italy, died at 56 of malaria...