Word: sienna
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 is probably due to the insufficient foundations laid by the builders, which caused it to settle while in process of construction. Sienna, the other principal city of Tuscany, is noted mainly for its cathedral, planned to be the largest in the world. The present edifice is only the transept, the nave having been begun but never completed. The church contains the most beautiful pulpit in Italy, and the interior is splendidly ornamented...
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...