Men of learning in Milan have not enjoyed.... : Quote by Napoléon Bonaparte

“ Men of learning in Milan have not enjoyed proper respect. They hid themselves in their laboratories and thought themselves lucky if . . . priests left them alone. All is changed today. Thought in Italy is free. Inquisition, intolerance, despots have vanished. I invite scholars to meet and propose what must be done to give science and the arts a new flowering. ”

Napoléon Bonaparte
  • From : Correspondance générale
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