Word: salvemini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, will give the first of a series of lectures on "The Free Communes of Mediaeval Italy" this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D. The first talk will be on "The Holy Roman Empire and Feudal Institutions in Italy during the 12th Century. The Rise of the Communes, or City States...
Professor Salvemini has lost no time in replaying to the story in the Ialian press implicating him in a bomb explosion in St. Peter's last Summer. He has cabled to II Duce demanding that he be tried and convicted "in absentia" and that the Italian Government then apply for his extradition from the United States. He told the newspaper men that the addition of his name to the list of six men hitherto mentioned in connection with the crime was apparently an after-thought on the part of the Italian Government...
...challenge was issued at Harvard, where Professor Salvemini teaches Italian literature. He is one of a fairly numerous class of foreign scholars who have been cast out from their own country by the rise of dictatorship and have found a refuge in American universities and colleges. This will confirm the opinion long held in wide circles that our colleges are only stagnant back-waters in the rapid flow of modern life, dedicated as ever to obsolete faiths and lost causes. They cling, for instance, to the outworn notion of liberty and give shelter to thinkers and scholars whom the iron...
...special statement to the CRIMSON. Professor Salvemini said, "if there were the slightest evidence against me for such an odious crime as to bomb a church crowded with innocent people or for any other crime, Mussolini would demand my extradition from the United States. He never will do so, because he thus would give me the opportunity of refuting all charges before impartial judges. Therefore I do not need to make any disclaimer...
Professor Salvemini sent an indignant cable to Mussolini in reply to the charges laid against him, as follows...