Follicle On Inner Thigh

O tempora! O mores! On the night





"Not to be done Senator "

GV Schiaparelli's letter to Paolo Boselli, Minister of Education, January 27, 1889 :

"In a list hypothetical new Senators, published in the newspapers of today, I find the name of Schiaparelli. Besides me there are several people in Italy who bear this name and titles that would be sufficient in the senatorial dignity, and if any of these people refer the appointment in question there is more to be said: Your Excellency can not throw away this letter that has no purpose in this case.
Signs of high benevolence of Your Excellency that on another occasion he wished to honor might, however, somewhat less than the bold assumption that it was my poor person. If that were really my gratitude to Your Excellency would not limits. Nevertheless, I pray earnestly and with all the forces which are able to remove his name from the list and not to do it.
not that I do not appreciate as befits an honor, which is perhaps the highest distinction that the country can offer to those who serve it, without even an act of false modesty, which could even be interpreted as resulting from enormous pride. Neither one nor the other thing, Sir!
I do not want to be senator because I can not fulfill the duties inherent to such high rank. I do not have the slightest idea of \u200b\u200bpolitical and administrative issues. I can not adapt to the long and frequent trips by rail, and worth nothing in the discussions. I could never go to the Senate and a Senator at all then I would not be useless. I already
sorrow and remorse at having been put in force for the Superior Council of Education, to which I am unable to attend meetings and where they are a member at all idle.
If you want me to do something for my country not allow me to get away from the Observatory. Here there is a large telescope which cost the nation a lot of money and that I am required to make money for science and for the honor of our country. Men dear to increase luster in the Senate there in Italy: the right man in the right place !
Please excuse the boldness of this letter, which maybe the rest can be useless if it is to think differently from me.
And I will always obedient to his orders in all things that do not rise above the limits of my strength.
your Excellency devoted
GV Schiaparelli.

Schiaparelli went to Rome to take an oath in Senate only ten years later, November 18, 1898.


Credits: Archives of the Astronomical Observatory of Brera, scientific correspondence