Chapter 134 The Pavia Declaration
Gina Breggit's appearance aroused Alexander's interest, or it should be said that he became more interested.
As a higher institution as well as the University of Bologna, Alexander was no less interested in the University of Paveya than the University of Bologna, and even more in some ways.
The University of Bologna has more extraordinary achievements in humanities, arts and legal philosophy. This is of course of great significance to establishing a national regime in the future to transport talents. However, from the current perspective, the role of Paveya University is more practical.
This is because Paveya University is the earliest science classification university in Europe today. Among them, the chemistry major gradually formed later was the predecessor. Although many disciplines are still covered with various religious skins, Alexander will not forget that it was from Paveya University that the prototype of science classification universities in the modern sense appeared.
Among them, what moved Alexander the most was the Medical School of Paveya University.
This specialized medical school, known as the earliest specialty medical school in Europe, has the most complete medical theory and practical education at present. If many Europeans in other places use pain and severity in other places to solve the disease, the Medical School of Paveya University has already taken a step earlier than most people and has begun to take a key step towards the direction of pathological analysis that is primitive, but of great significance.
If everything goes well, Paveia University could have driven the history of European medicine forward and thus allowed the fruits of modern medicine to be born many years ahead of schedule. However, the long Italian war did not finally save the university. Alexander remembers very clearly that in a few years, Paveia City will be greatly damaged due to being involved in the war. Paveia University will also suffer huge losses that are difficult to recover in the war, and it will eventually have to move to Piacenza, which will be merged into one with the University of Piacenza at that time. In this process, countless important documents and manuscripts will be lost. As for the residual materials preserved by Paveia Medical College, they are even seriously damaged. Even after more than two centuries, some people are still trying to collect them to get inspiration and inspiration from them.
However, what impressed Alexander the most about Paveya University was that it is said that Da Vinci learned and understood the structure and secrets of the human body from the human anatomical manuscripts circulated from Paveya University.
Now that I heard that this person named Gina Brigitte actually said that she was studying at the Medical School of Paveya University, Alexander finally understood what she meant by being treated unfairly.
The higher institution of education that is open to women like the University of Bologna is unique in this era, at least Paveya University obviously does not include it.
Gina Breggit was still studying in medical school, which was enough to make her more discerning. Perhaps if her classmate could have studied at Paveia University with her, the situation would have been slightly better, but the trouble caused by Busako's inexplicable jealousy made her come here alone.
Alexander could imagine that a single woman would not only enter a higher education institution, but also learn medicine, which is taboo even for most men. Now it seems to be a very mysterious and embarrassing thing. As long as you think about the legendary Leonardo da Vinci could only secretly dissect the body in the dark basement more than once, Alexander had some understanding of the difficulties faced by Gina Brigitte.
Discrimination against women is now a very common phenomenon, even in Castilla, ruled by the Queen.
Women cannot go out of the house, women cannot make decisions for their marriage, and women are not even allowed to have their own personal property. Perhaps some noble ladies can get rid of this position that is completely regarded as vassals, and they can even become strong men who dominate men, but there are too few such women, or even if they have such an identity, once they are united with men with the same identity, they still have to choose to accept the reality of relying on their husbands in a secular way.
Queen Isabella is obviously an exception, but she was able to govern the country with her husband Ferdinand because the Castile nobles behind her could not tolerate their country being swallowed by Aragon in one bite, and her daughter, the future mad queen, was not so lucky. What kind of fate would she suffer, Alexander could guess at a little thought.
Shaking his head slightly, throwing these too distant reverie out of his mind, Alexander looked at Ofulei who was rushing toward him.
On the day when Montina's army entered Paveia, Alexander sent Gompatti to lead the previous northern legion to move to a riverbank defense line not far from the west of the city. This river is a tributary of the Pormi River. The river surface is not wide and the water is very gentle. A bridge to Paveia crosses the river and connects the road from Paveia to Mede.
The Battle of Mede caused huge losses to the Austrians. Two crushing defeats made Maximian I begin to doubt his decisions on Italian affairs, but now he has no way out. Whether Sforza's family can continue to rule Milan has become the key to whether Austria can continue to exert its influence in Italy. In addition, Maximian does need the huge spoils stored in Milan to solve his urgent need for money shortage.
So no matter what purpose he is, he must repel the Frenchman in front of him as soon as possible. Even if it is only temporary, he must prove through a victory that he still has unquestionable rights in Italy.
The emperor's determination is very great, which comes from some information he received.
Obviously, although they achieved two consecutive victories, the French also paid a huge price. After winning, the French army, which was originally inferior to the Austrians, did not launch an attack as actively as before, but instead turned to defense, which is enough to show a lot of things.
Mede was not far from Paveia, about 30 Faris. Alexander felt that maybe the two enemies who fought happily would soon know the movements of Montina's army. The sudden appearance of Montina's army at this time would obviously make both sides quite concerned, but Alexander didn't care. He only asked Gompati to build defense on the east bank of the Pormi River, but his eyes were already staring at a further place.
"I need you to do something, Ofulei," Alexander said to the marching captain who rushed over, "I want you to take a group of people before we leave Paveya."
Ofulei looked at Alexander with a little confused. When he heard that he was taking away the scholars from Paveya University, the marching captain nodded as if he had realized something: "Please rest assured, since we can't stay in this city for long, there is no need for us to leave any good reputation here."
"That's not the case," Alexander stopped Ofuleina's somewhat dangerous thoughts in time. "We still need a good reputation. You know that maybe it won't take long to come back. By then I don't want to be turned away by the Paveians."
"But sir, those in college may not want to leave," Ofulei was a little helpless. "If that happens, we will have to use violence in the end."
"Of course there is no way to do this, but be moderate and be a little careful," Alexander pinched his fingers together and gestured a small movement, which made Ofulei feel helpless.
"Okay, but I have to tell you that those people are very stubborn, and I can only guarantee that there will be no unpleasant things happening."
Alexander laughed. He was relieved of Ofulei, but when he remembered the trouble Busako caused him, Alexander felt a little annoyed again.
The rights of the University of Bologna are indeed sacred. This has been recognized by many rulers for centuries and is regarded as the fundamental reason for the continued succession of the university. Busacorna seems to be just an intervention in a student's freedom, but it violates the most basic principle of infinite exemption, which makes Alexander feel that while he is still a little curious.
After all, in his impression, Busako was not the kind of person who looked so crazy because of a woman. He was actually a very unconventional, let alone a romantic and dull person. When Alexander asked him to serve as the commander of the Hunting Guard, he also took a fancy to his personality.
Bussacco may be an excellent battle commander, but Alexander does not think that he can become a talented person who can stand alone like Gompatti. This is determined by his personality.
But now Bussacre has given him a big problem. The key to this problem is that if Bussacre is not punished, it means his denial of the rights that the University of Bologna has held for centuries.
"Maybe, it can be compensated in some way." Alexander tried to think so in his heart. He knew that this was not easy, but now there seems to be a very suitable opportunity to obtain forgiveness from the University of Bologna.
"Be kind to those people," Alexander said to Ofulei again, "you know we will use them in the future."
When Gina returned to the small house she rented, it was already dark. She dragged her tired body and walked to the bed with difficulty, and then fell head-on on the hard bed.
It has been almost a month since she came from Bologna to Paveia, and her life has been very difficult during this period.
Unlike in Bologna, she did not have the same female companion as her, nor was she angry that she was not surprised or even deviant about women appearing on campus. Everything here seemed so depressing, and the surname Brejit also made her unable to extricate herself sometimes.
Her father, Perbonne Breggit, was a knowledgeable and widely respected master of law. Gina knew it from the moment she was just sensible, and what made her feel was rare to be tolerant and understanding of her father in the matter of women mastering knowledge.
In fact, even at the University of Bologna, not everyone agrees with recruiting girls, especially in the strict seminary, where many priests do not have a better attitude towards women entering college than people elsewhere.
However, her father firmly supported women with the right to study. In addition to the talent shown by his own daughter, he felt that he could not be wasted. Through his explanation of law, Perbonnet Breggit repeatedly emphasized that this mastery of knowledge belongs to a human being and should not be confined by gender.
Gina felt that her father was great, and he even supported her to go to Paveya for study, but here she deeply felt the pressure and doubts that could not be avoided from all directions, which sometimes even made her herself have the question of "Is it really right for women to learn knowledge?"
It might have been better if he hadn't come to Paveya Medical College alone at that time. Gina couldn't help but think so, and then she couldn't help but feel indescribable anger and anger at the trouble that the soldier named Busako brought to her.
As for the male student who was supposed to be studying with Pavia with her, Gina also doesn't think he has any special meaning to her.
Gina is not interested in love or marriage. For her, these things cannot arouse her interest at all, and it is precisely because of this that she is even more annoyed.
But she is not an ignorant little girl who knows nothing but learning.
On the contrary, she has a smart mind than ordinary people and knows how to put herself in an advantage.
The accusation of Busako was actually Gina hoped to attract Alexander's attention, so as to arouse the young Count's guilt so that her life would be a little better.
The reason why she thought Alexander would feel guilty rather than disapproving of her situation was because from the rumors about the Earl of Montina, this person was not a rude nobleman.
This can be seen from the surprising discipline his army showed after the occupation of Bologna.
Gina turned over and touched the bag that was thrown aside. It was empty and very wet inside.
She remembered that she had angered at the male medical school students who despised her before, and she tore all her studies notes on the day in anger, which made her feel a little regretful. After all, what she learned today is very important, especially those rare anatomical records, which are valuable knowledge that she would never learn elsewhere.
Perponnet Breggit hopes that his daughter can arrange her life freely according to her own wishes. Even though this is actually unlikely, it is at least much better than those girls who cannot decide their future at all.
After learning philosophy, art, and many other noble women can learn some of them, Gina Breggit chose to study medicine, a path that is definitely not suitable for women to explore in the eyes of others.
It’s just that the process of studying is difficult, but the pressure on the world is even greater.
"I hope that count is not so famous." Gina muttered in a low voice.
She would get sick like this, so she tried to get up from the bed, walked to the corner and picked up a wooden barrel and went out of the door.
It was very cold, but Gina still gritted her teeth and drew a bucket of water from the cold well.
After heating the water, Gina had a little difficulty taking off her wet clothes and wiped her body with hot water.
At this time, people did not know that an unhygienic environment would cause bacterial congestion, and they did not know that unclean water sources were one of the culprits of diseases and even plagues. However, when Gina studied at the University of Bologna before, she had noticed from many past plague records that dirty conditions would make people more likely to get sick, and a cleaner environment would at least make people healthier.
This made Gina feel very interested in the causes of diseases and contagion. Although these things are not suitable for a young woman, especially the process of cutting and tearing a body with special tools, many students feel uncomfortable with one of them, but Gina obviously enjoys it.
After carefully wiping her body with hot water, Gina walked out of the house with a dirty bucket that had changed a little color.
Just then, she saw a group of soldiers walking past the street in front of her house.
The officer in the team leader looked very young. When passing by Gina, the officer nodded slightly to her politely, and then led the team to continue walking forward.
Gina looked at the young officer's back with a little confused. She felt that she had seen him somewhere. It was probably when she had just visited Count Montina, but she soon forgot about this.
Gina never thought that soldiers were amazing, and they were different from those noble ladies who were obsessed with knight stories. In her opinion, soldiers did nothing but destroy. Many of the brilliant civilizations created in ancient times described in the book were exactly the same as the war.
She carried the bucket through the street and came to the drainage ditch. Gina frowned slightly as she looked at the dirty water pouring into the ditch full of ice.
She felt it was necessary to suggest to the Earl of Montina that the city drains should be cleared and all the garbage on the streets that could smell choking even in winter should be cleaned.
But then she shook her head.
She knew that even if the count was willing to punish Busacco for her accusation, he was just to keep his promise to the University of Bologna for years. As for trying to convince him to pay attention to urban hygiene, it would be a bit too difficult.
Although the performance of Montina's army seemed to be very different from other troops, Gina did not think that the count must be a person who could understand and understand what she was going to say. For these nobles, their money was used to spend money on purchases of weapons and then kill each other, hoping that they would care whether a city was clean or that they believed that keeping a tidy environment could avoid plagues and infectious diseases, and even had to waste their energy on doing these things. Gina thought she was a bit whimsical.
The team ahead was getting further and further away, and then Gina saw that they seemed to be heading towards Paveya University, which made her a little strange, but then she thought that it seemed to have nothing to do with her, so Gina turned around and walked towards her cottage with the bucket.
She was tired for a day and was filled with cold eyes from the students. Even the teachers in the school publicly expressed their unwillingness to teach "a woman", which made Gina very tired. Now she just wants to go back to the warm room and have a good sleep.
Gina Breggitt didn't know that the scene she just saw would not only have a huge relationship with her in the near future, but the fate of many people will also change with this day.
On January 6, 1500, Alexander Juliant Gambre, Earl of Montina who occupied Paveia, announced his re-intervention in Northern Italy on the grounds that the Lombardy war had threatened the security of Romagna-Tuscany.
This was the first time Alexander publicly issued a declaration as a Romani and Tuscan monarch. Northern Italy was in a hurry for a while, and the whole of Europe's eyes once again focused on Northern Italy.
In comparison, another command from Alexander seemed less eye-catching.
On January 7, Alexander signed the first significant order after his occupation of Paveya.
Paveya University is about to move to Pisa.bdshare();
Chapter completed!