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It was April 17, 1732 and a very special day in the Papal City State of Bologna. The event attracted an enormous crowd gathered in the Sala degli Anziani of the Palazzo Pubblico, the residence of the gonfaloniere Filippo Aldrovandi, Head of the Senate, the City’s governing body. Many of the leading authorities of the City of Bologna and of its University were present: the Vice-Legate, the Cardinal Legate Girolamo Grimaldi, the Archbishop Prospero Lambertini, the Cardinal Melchiorre de Polignac, representative of the King of France (Louis XV) at the Holy See visiting Bologna while travelling from Rome to Paris. Also in attendance were senators, women and men from the nobility, priests, professors, and lecturers. A large audience of citizens, who sometimes could be rowdy, was allowed to attend.
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Frize, M. (2013). An Extraordinary Event in 1732. In: Laura Bassi and Science in 18th Century Europe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38685-5_1
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