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Show WERE MARVELS IM CHILDHOOD Those Whom the World Has Recognized Recog-nized as Men of Genius Remark, able for Precocity. One character common to genius and to Insanity, especially moral Insanity, In-sanity, is precocity. Cesare Lombroso, professor of legal medicine, University of Turin, relates that Dante,' when 'nine years of age, wrote a sonnet to. Beatrice ; Tasso wrote verses at ten. : Pascal and Couite were great think-1 crs at the ages of thirteen. Former at , fifteen, Niebuhr at seven, Jonathan Edwards at twelve, Michel Angelo at nineteen, Gassendl, the Little Doctor, at four, Bossut at twelve, and Voltaire at thirteen. Pico de la Mirnmlola knew Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean and Arabic, in his childhood ; Goethe wrote a story in seven languages when he was scarcely ten ; Wieland knew Latin at seven, meditated an epic poem at thirteen, and at sixteen published his . poem, "Die Vollkommenste "Welt." Schiller was only nineteen when he wrote "Rauber." Victor Hugo composed com-posed "Irtamene" at fifteen. Pope wrote his ode to solitude at twelve," end Byron published verses at eighteen. eight-een. Moore translated "Anacreon" at thirteen. Meyerbeer at five played ex- ' cellently on the piano. Claude Joseph Vernet drew very well at four, and at twenty was a celebrated painter. At thirteen Wren invented an astronomical astronom-ical instrument, and offered It to his father with a Latin dedication. ' Raphael was famous at fourteen. Beethoven composed three sonatas at thirteen. Eichorn, Mozart and Eybler save concerts at six. Weber was only thirteen when his first opera, "Das Waldmarchen," was presented. Bacon conceived the "Novum 1 Organum" at fifteen. Charles XII manifested his great designs at eighteen. |
