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Thirteen Universities have been suppressed by the Italian Government. There still remain, however, the old foundations of Padua, Bologna, Pavia, Pisa and Rome; Naples, Genoa and Paiermo are spared...
Views of many other churches and statues were also shown, giving altogether a most clear and satisfactory idea of the city. Pisa is situated on the Arno nearer the sea. The city is noted for a group of buildings surrounding the Duomo, or cathedral, which dates from the eleventh century. In this church is the identical lamp from whose movements Galileo deduced the laws of the pendulum. The baptistry is a very handsome building, but the chief interest centers in the well known "Leaning Tower," from whose summit Galileo made his experiments on falling bodies. The attitude of this tower...
This evening at half-past seven o'clock, Professor Cooke will give the second of his series of illustrated lectures upon the cities of Italy. The views this evening will be taken from scenes in Sienna and Pisa. The historic interest which centres around these two old cities, perhaps the most romantic of all in Europe, will be brought all the more vividly to the mind by the views of world-famous buildings and ruins. The lectures will be given in Boylston, and members of the University and their friends are cordially invited to attend...
Professor Cooke will give another illustrated lecture next Thursday, upon Pisa and Sienna...
...examples of flatness, we may quote the statements that "Columbus is dead"; that " the Cathedral [of Pisa] is built in the form of a Latin cross,"-nothing more being said of the building; and that " before me lay Naples, while on the right, old Vesuvius was sending forth its dense columns of white smoke." Of the Bay of Naples no further mention is made...