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

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                only his own parishioners, but vacationers from the neighboring countryside as
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                well came willingly to hear his Sunday lectures on the Gospels.... Both the
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                clergy and the population of the town of Bagno a Ripoli, among whom he lived
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                for so long and who could therefore judge his great virtues at close hand,
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                flocked in great numbers to accompany him to his grave and a colleague, Prior
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                Cini,... praised his knowledge, virtue and modesty. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Two musical societies
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                rendered the funeral procession more solemn.” And the long and steep walk up
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                to the cemetery which dominates the river from the other flank of the valley
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                must have reminded that little crowd, all village and country folk, of his
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                countless methodical hikes over the same splendid hills. </foreign>
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                8. ODYSSEY OF THE MANUSCRIPTS
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                <foreign lang="en">In his will which he had drawn up just three months earlier, besides giving
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                instructions for his funeral—significant for the simplicity and the poetry that
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                inspires them—he left his books and manuscripts to his older brother, Giuseppe,
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                with the obligation to transmit them to his eldest son, Egisto, who was in turn
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                to leave them to his firstborn and so on, as has been done. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Egisto Caverni, the
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                favorite nephew with whom his uncle often met in Florence and who had
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                taken up the trade of carpenter, went to get them at the parsonage of San
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                Bartolomeo in Quarate with one of those two-wheeled carts which once carried
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                bricks to the building yards of Florence, and in 1906 Filippo Orlando could
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                write that “the books, the manuscripts of Caverni, some unpublished and
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                important, are still kept in an orderly collection with pious veneration by his
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                family in S. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">Quirico di Montelupo where he was born; his nephew, Egisto
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                Caverni, full of intelligence and reverent affection although he lives by the
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                work of his hands, keeps them all in order in the best room of the house....”
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                This old friend expressed the hope that these papers would be passed on to
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                the Biblioteca Nazionale of Florence.
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                Twelve years later, Father Giovanni
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                Giovannozzi, printing an unpublished chapter of the
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                Storia,
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                spoke again of that
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                precious material: “In my studies I have more than once consulted the original
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                manuscript possessed by the nephews and heirs of Abbot Caverni and made
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                extracts of it. </foreign>
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                <foreign lang="en">And now, in agreement with the owners, I am happy to offer
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                students of the history of science the chapter concerning the doctrine and
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                works of the ex-Scolopian Famiano Michelini....”
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                Since then, that is, for
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                about half a century, I do not think there was any further news of those
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                manuscripts, nor was there any trace of them in the Florentine archives. </foreign>
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