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LICS Newsletter August 2019.Pdf 1 L’OSSERVATORE LANCASTRIANO AUGUST 2019 Visit us at: www. lancaster-italian-cultural-society.org The Newsletter of the Famous Italian Women Issue Lancaster Italian Cultural Society www.lancaster-italian-cultural-society.org Volume 21 Issue 3 August 2019 L’Osservatore Lancastriano unification of the various states on the President’s Message LICS Attends the Humanity Fest Italian Peninsula into a country, Italia, by David Ferruzza Carissimi Amici, in March, 1861. On Saturday morning April 27, Buona l’estate ai nostri membri! Fred showed and described the LICS was one of about 20 Please save the date for our next works of Italian artists, explaining how organizations with displays in Musser event, the Summer Picnic, on color and position on paintings were th Park. LICS’s marquee hosted about 80 September 8 , at 12 PM. We hope you used to convey visitors who put a pin in a world map to can join us for this Italian themed old- deep meaning to show where their ancestors were born. fashioned family picnic, with food and a largely While in LICS’s marquee, they learned fun activities for all ages. unschooled a little about LICS. We gave them The picnic location is the Salunga population. He flyers: One telling about LICS, one Park Pavilion, located next to the fire directed our with a few recipes, one telling about station, 19 W. Main St., in Landisville. thoughts back to trips. Several of the visitors gave us the 1300s and Also, please save the date for the their email addresses so we could 1400s when return of LICS Spaghetti Dinner, which provide them with further information. artists began to explore how to depict will be held at St. Philip the Apostle Among LICS’s representatives were space and depth, transforming their Church in Millersville, on October 26, four new members: Josephine & work from one-dimensional, almost 2019. Yes, the Spaghetti Dinner is Sebastiano Santore, and Eric & Emily inanimate art, to vibrant paintings with back! Details soon… Badaracco; along with board members perspective and volume. Articles in this issue focus on some Steve Iovino, Nella Seward, Rosemary famous Italian women, historical ladies We all left with smiles on our faces LaFata , David Ferruzza and Mary Cae who would impact Italy and the world. from having learned some Italian Williams. Cordiali saluti, history and some aspects of Rudy DeLaurentis Renaissance art -- all presented by May General Meeting Report Fred with good by David Ferruzza humor. It was a “ Great Meeting ”! Side note: To On May 19, 2019 about 80 members parallel the theme and guests gathered to enjoy food for on art, one of the the body and for the mind. displays was a table For the body – An Italian Buffet. loaded with some For the mind – Our own member, of the hundreds of historian and artist FRED RODGER “Thank You” presented Florence and the Birth of creations sent to the Renaissance. LICS by K-12 students whose art Fred’s talk guided us through education has been hundreds of years of Italy’s formative enhanced by “Adopt-a-Classroom” history: From the provincial pride of Above: LICS put up a marquee at support from LICS’s “Education individual states and their warfare Lancaster’s celebration of diversity Initiative.” against each other to an eventual known as Humanity Fest. 2 L’OSSERVATORE LANCASTRIANO AUGUST 2019 Visit us at: www.lancaster-italian-cultural-society.org Maria Montesorri assignments. She believed that the causes of war by Mary Cae Williams Dr. Montessori accepted a position were rooted in what she called the as an assistant doctor at the Psychiatric “deformation of the human spirit” Clinic, University of Rome, working through restrictive methods of with “defective” children. Today, we education that pressured children to would consider these children to be conform to pre-existing expectations intellectually challenged, have learning rather than supporting them to develop differences, or to be experiencing other according to their inborn capacities. non-normative development. They She spoke and wrote that it was adults, were kept in bare surroundings with still suffering from this stunting early little or nothing to occupy their hands experience, who were vulnerable to the or minds. The story goes that she lure of warfare and the propaganda of observed a young child, sitting on the demagogues. Her work to lay the floor, taking crumbs and arranging foundations for peace in the world gave them in different ways. An attendant her international acclaim, including said something like, “See, they are so nomination for the Nobel Peace prize. Maria Montessori was born on damaged that they play with crumbs.” August 31, 1870, in Chiaravalle, near According to the story, Maria realized Ancona in the Marche Region of Italy. that the child was making order out of It was the era of Italy’s Unification, the only materials available. From this when the many, separate city-states and observation, she began to research the small kingdoms on the Italian Peninsula work of others and to experiment on were being united into one country. her own, to provide these children with Maria Montessori grew up in a time materials that would occupy their hands that saw major advances in industry, productively and stimulate their minds. science, and medicine throughout the At some point, her “defectives” Western world. In her life, she demonstrated the ability to read, embodied the energy, optimism, and calculate, and write, often in ways that Dr. Maria Montessori died of a creativity of the times. As a physician, were in advance of their normally- cerebral hemorrhage on May 6, 1952 at she stepped out of traditional roles developing peers in the state run the age of 82. For some, her work is a assigned to women. As an educational schools. This amazing success brought guiding light to a better and more innovator, she stepped onto the world attention and fame to Dr. Montessori. enlightened way to treat children with stage, promoting a fundamental change Benito Mussolini asked her to take respect. Her writings require teachers in approaches to teaching and guiding charge of all Italian education, but their to be guides, to consider themselves as children’s development. As a woman of collaboration was short-lived, because assistants in each child’s journey to faith, nominated three times for the Montessori’s method emphasized discover her own talents, interests and Nobel Prize, she advocated for peace in growth and development along abilities, and to provide each child with the world. individual lines rather than training the tools needed to master the skills When Maria was a young woman, children to conform to a series of required to be independent, capable, she chose to study engineering, a field predetermined lessons. Dr. Montessori and contributing adults. To others, she not considered appropriate for women. spent the rest of her life refining and is a quaint footnote in the history of As time when on, however, she became expanding her method, curriculum, and educational theory. To many, she is interested in medicine. Persisting learning materials. She started schools simply unknown. Regardless of the against many obstacles, she graduated in India and the Netherlands as well as perspective one has on her work, she with a degree in medicine, becoming providing the model for schools to be stands out as a pioneer for women’s one of the first women in Italy to started in the United States. Today, rights, an innovator in education, and a achieve this. During her medical there are Montessori schools all over voice for promoting peace in the world. studies, for example, she was prevented the world. She was an Italian, who shared her from participating in anatomy classes Living through two world wars, the values, insights, and abilities with the alongside male students. She had to rise of Fascism, the dropping of the world. complete her work after the others had atom bomb, and the rapid advance of Source: Maria Montessori: A left for the day. Her father brought her technology used for war, Dr. Biography by Rita Kramer into the lab and then took her home Montessori responded by developing each night when she had completed her her concept of peace through education. 3 L’OSSERVATORE LANCASTRIANO AUGUST 2019 Visit us at: www.lancaster-italian-cultural-society.org Italian Women of Note participated in an active manner in the graduated from Padua University in Prior to Maria Montessoi, there were Great Western Schism or Papal Schism 1678. several women who made or changed which would forever change the life Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684 – Italy; famous and pioneer women in the and course of history in the Italian 1777), was a Genovese mathematician fields of politics, sciences, arts, peninsula. She is one of the only three and scientist who was famous for her medicine, mathematics or education. women saints, along with Teresa of ability to solve every mathematical Avila and Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, to Some women were active in problem presented to her. In 1728, have been declared Doctors of the astronomy, botany, medicine, natural Borromeo discovered the so-called Church. philosophy, mathematics, teaching Clelie curve : q = mƒ, shown below. patronage, and translation during the Dorotea Bucca (1360-1436), was a She was also versed eighteenth and nineteenth century, as doctor and professor of Medicine at the in linguistics and some of their sisters had been during University of Bologna. She was one of spoke eight the Renaissance and Baroque periods. the first scientists to open the science languages. Often families and teachers educated field to women in Europe. She was the first female professor to be accepted women in science and other fields in Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718 – onto the board of the university of order to increase their own prestige.
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