Giulio Malatesta A Novel

Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334923081
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Giulio Malatesta written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Giulio Malatesta: A Novel The stranger in either of the cities which have been named, on inquiring for the Universit would vezfossibly be told by several of the Inhabitants that t ey really not know where it was situated; much as a Londoner might not know where the church of St. Andrew Undershaft is. He would, however, easily find some one who would oint out to him, in no specially prominent part of the town, a b ding little, if at all, distin uished from many of the other palace residences of the city. If e entered it, he might observe in the empty court, or arcaded corridors of the building, the sculp tared coats of arms of former generations of doctors and magnificent rectors. But there would be nothin else to mark the special character of the place. If he persevere so far in his researches as to netrate into the interior of the building, he would find a series of Peary and shabby-looking rooms, furnished with a pulpit or read ing-desk, and a surroundin hemicycle of bare forms, such as may be seen in many a village se col-room. He would then be informed that he had seen the University. And though persistent inquiry might, probably, as has been said, succeed in causing some such more or less ornamental metallic s mbol of the academic existence as has been spoken of to be broug t forth from its abiding cupboard for the satisfaction of the stranger, it would be the truth, that the inspection of those dismal rooms and their mean fittings had shown him all, and more than all, of the University that the townsfolk of the city in which it is situated ever see. Then, the absence of any distinctive costume worn by the youno' men attending the classes, the Slendemess of their connexion with the academic body, consisting solely in attendance on certain lectures, the inde endence of their mode of life, which is subject to no rules or regu tions whatever di 'erin from those observed by all the other inhabitants of the city these circumstances con tribute to despoil the continental universities of all those goodly outward and Visible signs of their existence which are so striking and attractive in our own country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."