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...special loan exhibition of early Italian engravings in memory of the late Francis Bullard, of the class of 1886, will be held in the Fogg Art Museum, opening today. This will be the most important group of fifteenth and early sixteenth century Italian prints ever shown in this country, an exhibition made possible by friends of the Museum in Boston, New York, London, and Cambridge. Anyone interested in Italian prints will have an opportunity to see some of the finest works of the great engravers as well as the extremely rare anonymous prints which preceded them, many of a quality...
...Fogg Art Museum has recently made several important acquisitions by gift and loan which are now on exhibition in the print-room. These include a drawing by the sixteenth century German master Altdorfer, and an etching by Hirschvogel, representing a man in armor. The latter is a very beautiful impression of an excessively rare print. There is no record of its ever having appeared before at a public sale, and no impression of it exists in the British Museum...
History 31 hf. Selected Topics from the History of Continental Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries...
Professor J. A. Walz, of the German Department, spoke last evening on "The Moral Forces of Modern Germany." Professor Walz introduced his subject by a brief summary of the growth of German national spirit from the sixteenth century, emphasizing the important part played by Prussia in the unifying of what once was a mass of over three hundred principalities. The fundamental principles of German political philosophy, he said, are authority, liberty, and duty. These ideas run through all the forms of German public activity, and it is for their sake that the Teutonic allies are now fighting. Some time...
...purpose. Unfortunately the catalogue was not ready for press, and has perished, together with all the librarian's other documents. Professor Delanney's researches brought to light a great quantity of manuscripts of unsuspected value, which had no doubt been used by the great humanists of the sixteenth century, including what was believed to be the finest known manuscripts of Cornelius Nepos. He considered that the collection of incunabula was the second finest in Europe. Moreover, large collections of archives of various kinds were found, including some of unusual importance for French history, of which copies do not exist...