Word: vigna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...philosophy, law, history, medicine and anatomy the list of famous Neapolitans, is long. Remembering Parthenope, the clearest absent vision of her university is the quadrangle where stand the statues of those curious associates, two of whom came through martyrdom and exile to this peace--St. Thomas, Pietro della Vigna, Giordano Bruno. Pietro, Chancellor, of the Emperor Frederick II., and like him a poet, delivered his master's character to the university. Blinded by the Emperor, who trusted to forged letters, the work of onvy, "the harlot, who ne'er turned her gloating eyes from Caesar's household," he dashed...