The Golden Legend Author:Arthur Sullivan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: so Just enough to moisten our sails, And make them ready for the strain. See how she leaps, as the blasts o'ertake her, And speeds away with a bone in her mouth!... more » Now keep her head toward the south, 85 And there is no danger of bank or breaker. With the breeze behind us, on we go; Not too much, good Saint Antonio ! THE SCHOOL OF SALERNO. A travelling Scholastic affixing his Theses to the gate of the College, t Scholastic. There, that is my gauntlet, my banner, my shield, Salerno, a seaport of 20,000 inhabitants, on the Gulf of that name, thirty- three miles southeast of Naples, occupies the site of an ancient Greek colony and of the Roman city Salernum, founded 194 B. c., to check the Picentines. It was the seat of a bishopric in the sixth century, and, at the end of the seventh, of a Benedictine monastery, this order having taken an advanced position in the monastic study of medicine, which previously was a mixture of magic and superstition. From that time a school grew up, in which medicine was taught, as well as law and philosophy, but the "University of Salerno," which was entirely under secular control, was founded in 1150. In the ninth century Salernitan physicians were spoken of, and the city was known as Civitas Hip- pocratiea, and was called later, by Petrarch, "the fountain of medicine," fons medicince. Royal personages resorted to it for treatment, as Duke William of Normandy (William the Conqueror), and the Emperor Henry II. It reached its highest reputation during the crusades, and had declined by the middle of the fourteenth century, being obscured by the fame of the universities of Bologna and Paris, and the foundation of the schools of Naples and Montpellier. It was dissolved by an edict of Napoleon in 1S11. (v. p. 195.) t It was part of the philos...« less