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 her kindly nurture developed in him that genius which has left the whole world his debtor. The hasty traveller, indeed, who stops for an hour or two on his way to Venice to take a hurried glance at the chapel of Giotto scarcely dreams as he treads the grass-grown streets of the deserted city,

how large a space Padua has filled in the intellectual life of Europe. And yet it was once