Mezzofanti writes a book about Egyptian Obelisks

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A few months after his installation, he read at the university, June 23rd, 1804, on the occasion of conferring degrees, the first public dissertation of which I have been able to discover any record. The subject was " The Egyptian Obelisks." The dissertation itself has been lost; but Count Simone Stratico, of Pavia, to whom we owe the notice of its delivery, speaks of it as " most judicious and learned," and replete with antiquarian erudition. ^{Note 1}

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Note 1
In " Lettere di Varii illustri Itali, del Secolo XVII., e del Secolo XVIII." Vol. III., p. 183. Count Stratico is the well-known mathematician, the friend and colleague of Volta in the University of Pavia.

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