"After the restoration of 1815 Italy was kept back in the bottom of each abjection. Francis I in Ljubljana said:
- Your obedient subjects, not citizens enlightened -
and this was the original design which had forced the Italian schools, intent on the poor who could multiply their hair; to serve, and break the minds of every male who abhorred humiliation. On that understanding, says Emanuele Celesia, Pius VII restored to the Holy Office and the Society of Jesus, which pulled his hands again to the guidance of youth, and, driving out every other discipline, turn off the sparkle of genius in the studio Early Latin language and shapeless, a canon, Cesare Gattoni, then he could preach with impunity in his book on "Christian Education" the need to entrust the entire youth the training of our Loiolesi, because - if young people, he wrote, should not be afraid of the devil, I do not know by what means could be made to their bank impetuous passions. - "
from" The life and works of Raphael Lambruschini (1907) "of Gesualdo Vannini
0 comments:
Post a Comment