Manuscript filled form of Clotilde Tambroni for payment as "Professora Emerita."
Early 19th-Century Tenure
[Education] Tambroni, Clotilde. MANUSCRIPT-FILLED PRINTED FORM, signed by the treasurer of the University of Bologna, employment agreement for “Professora Emerita” Tambroni. Bologna, April 9, 1810.
Broadside; 24 ½ x 19 cm; clean and crisp; traces of previous mounting on verso; near contemporary autograph collector’s note in ink, refering to the Biographie Universelle entry on verso; tax stamp in upper left corner.
Tambroni was the sister of the Italian scholar and writer Giuseppe Tambroni (1773-1824), and was appointed to the chair of Greek at the University of Bologna in 1794, two years after her Epitalamio greco-italiano, written in Greek verse on the occasion of the marriage of the president of the Academy of the Inestricati. She only lasted four years in the post, however, being unwilling to take the oath renouncing the monarchy that was required by the Transpadane Republic. Thereafter, she travelled in Spain, before returning once more to the chair at Bologna with the support of Napoleon; however, the post was abolished in 1808. This document proves that as ‘emerita’ she still was on the payroll in 1810, and must have had a say at the university, which had a tradition of female scholarship ever since Laura Bassi had been appointed professor of anatomy in 1731.
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