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ment, the troops marched in, two hundred men 

 sleeping on the ground floor of the Jenkins' house, 

 thirty thousand in all entering the city, but with- 

 out disturbance, old La Marmora being a com- 

 mander of a Roman sternness. 



With the return of quiet, and the reopening of A student 



^ . in Genoa. 



the universities, we behold a new character, Signor 

 Flaminio : the professors, it appears, made no 

 attempt upon the Jenkin ; and thus readily Italian- 

 ised the Fleeming. He came well recommended ; 

 for their friend Rufiini was then, or soon after, 

 raised to be the head of the University ; and the 

 professors were very kind and attentive, possibly to 

 Rufiini's protSgS, perhaps also to the first Protestant 

 student. It was no joke for Signor Flaminio at 

 first ; certificates had to be got from Paris and from 

 Rector Wilhams ; the classics must be furbished 

 up at home that he might follow Latin lectures ; 

 examinations bristled in the path, the entrance 

 examination with Latin and English essay, and 

 oral trials (much softened for the foreigner) in 

 Horace, Tacitus and Cicero, and the first University 

 examination only three months later, in Italian 

 eloquence, no less, and other wider subjects. On 

 one point the first Protestant student was moved 

 to thank his stars : that there was no Greek required 

 for the degree. Little did he think, as he set down 

 his gratitude, how much, in later life and among 

 cribs and dictionaries, he was to lament this cir- 



