Caverni, Raffaello, Storia del metodo sperimentale in Italia, 1891-1900

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                first-year issues of his
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                Archivio,
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                sums up his life in less than ten lines, and says
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                practically all there is to say.
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                Yet, Martini
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                in 1902, Orlando
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                in 1906, and
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                Giovannozzi
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                in 1910, without producing any salient facts, have enriched the
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                brief, recorded data with notes on his character and with a few significant
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                episodes which serve today to render his figure lifelike and to shed further light
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                on his already clear personality. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">The sense of the man that one gathers from
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                this information, which might be thought to be biased since it is handed down
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                to us by men who were his devoted friends, is fully confirmed by accounts one
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                can still hear from the lips of the old parishioners of Quarate in the Ema Valley,
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                or from Lamberto Caverni, the oldest of his grandnephews who was only a few
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                years old when Don Raffaello died, but who remembers clearly everything his
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                father, Egisto, had to tell about that uncle. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Some of these details and others
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                besides can be checked against the documents and papers, although there are
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                some, together with a great many manuscripts, which the heirs jealously keep
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                to themselves. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Raffaello Caverni was born in San Quirico di Montelupo in a house on the
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                Via Pisana. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">The place is now marked by a memorial plaque with an epigraph
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                by Father G. Giovannozzi, placed there in July 1902, which following the
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                unfortunate cultural customs of those times remembers him in a rather
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                infelicitous manner as “most celebrated writer ... with German erudition
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                and Italian genius.” Such rhetoric hardly suits his work which, though not
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                always polished and rigorous, is brilliant, sagacious, and often piercing—in a
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                word, truly Tuscan. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">The Registry of baptisms in Pieve di Montelupo shows
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                that
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                Raffaello Gregorio
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                (the second name perhaps in honor of the reigning
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                Pope)
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                Gaspero, son of Vincenzo son of Pietro Caverni and Assunta Mancioli
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                was born in
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                S. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Quirico at the Ambrogiana
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                (the lovely Medici villa now an
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                asylum for the criminal insane)
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                on March 12, 1837, at 8:00 p.m.
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                He was the </foreign>
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