Caverni, Raffaello
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Storia del metodo sperimentale in Italia
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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. </
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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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8. ODYSSEY OF THE MANUSCRIPTS
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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. </
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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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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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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. </
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