Word: salvemini
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Professor Gaetano Salvemini died in Sorrento, near Naples, on September...
...fulfill the wishes expressed in his will, three of his friends are preparing an edition of his collected works. One of the volumes planned is a collection of Salvemini's letters. It is hoped that some interesting letters which he wrote over the years to American friends may be lent to his publishers. Anybody who possesses such letters is asked to kindly send either the original (which will be immediately returned after being copied) or a photostatic copy...
...Salvemini's biography, personal notes, memories, and anecdotes would be very useful. His editors would be grateful if friends, acquaintances, former pupils or colleagues were to write any anecdote, impression or story relating to him which may be used to complete a picture of his many-sided nature...
Died. Gaetamo Salvemini, 83, Italian-born, U.S.-naturalized historian and author (What Is Culture?), longtime (50 years) professor of history (Florence, Pisa, Harvard), who fled Mussolini's Italy but continued to work his vitriolic pen against Fascism; after long illness; in Sorrento, Italy...
...lively, to say the least. But it was the hearings for repeal which began in March, 1936 that were really characterized by the circus tempo associated with the Teacher's Oath controversy. The Boston Herald reported they "were probably the most noisy and colorful in State House history." Gaetano Salvemini, then Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, could scarcely be heard at a session March 18 because of the uproar, part of which was in his support and most own which was against him because he was not as yet an American citizen...