First Salvemini Lecture on Italy To Be Given Today

Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, will give the first of a series of lectures on "The Free Communes of Mediaeval Italy" this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D. The first talk will be on "The Holy Roman Empire and Feudal Institutions in Italy during the 12th Century. The Rise of the Communes, or City States."

There will be six lectures on the series, coming on Tuesdays during the next two months. They were made possible through the gift of an anonymous donor, and are given in memory of Lauro de Bosis, a young Italian poet, who lectured at Harvard and several other universities in 1926.

Professor Salvemini lectured at Harvard in 1930, and has given talks at Yale and in New York City since he came to America in 1925 as a visiting professor. The lectures will be open to the public.