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 | | On the death of his father, a physician at Spalatro, in Dalmatia, the family removed to Venice, -and in the University of Padua Foscolo prosecuted the studies begun in the Dalmatian grammar school. |
 | | He returned to Milan in 1813, until the entry of the Austrians; thence he passed into Switzerland, where he wrote a fierce satire in Latin on his political and literary opponents; and finally he sought the shores of England at the close of I816. |
 | | Fortyfour years after his death, in 1871, his remains were brought to Florence, and with all the pride, pomp and circumstance of a great national mourning, found their final resting-place beside the monuments of Macchiavelli and Alfieri, of Michelangelo and Galileo, in Italys Westminster Abbey, the church of Santa Croce. |
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