Show WERE MARVELS IN CHILDHOOD Those Whom the World Has Recognized sIzed as Men of Genius Remarkable Remark able for Pre Precocity One character c inmon to g genius and to Insanity especially moral insanity In In- sanity Is precocity Cesare Lombroso professor protessor of ot legal medicine University of at Turin relates that Dante when nine years of ot age wrote a n sonnet to Beatrice Tasso wrote wrote verses verses at t ten n Pascal Pacal and Comte were great think 1 I ers era at the tho ages of thirteen Fornier at fifteen at seven J Jonathan nathan Edw Edwards at twelve Michel Angelo at t nineteen the Little Doctor Doctor- at four at and Voltaire at thirteen Pico de de' de deIn la In Mirandola ola knew jw Latin Greek Hebrew Chaldean and Arabic In his childhood Goethe a Ii story In seven languages when he was scarcely ten WIeland knew atin at It- It Its s seven ven meditated an epic epI poem pem at at ar thirteen n and at sixteen ed his poem Die Welt Velt Schiller was only nineteen n whim when he wrote Victor Ht Hgo composed com composed com com- posed at nt fifteen Pope wrote his ode to solitude a at twelve and Byron published verses at it eight eight- een Moore translated Afia Ana lre reon n at thirteen reer at five played excellently ex- ex er- er on the piano Claude Claudo Joseph Vernet drew very vey w well wel ell at four and at twenty was a celebrated painter At thirteen Wren Invented un an n astronomical ical l Instrument strument and offered It t to his father with a Latin dedication Raphael was famous at fourteen Beethoven composed three sonatas at thirteen Eichorn Mozart and gave ave concerts at six sir Weber was only thirteen when his first opera Das was presented Bacon conceived the Nov Noum um at fifteen Charles XII manifested his hla great designs s at eighteen |