[Lx]

Your personal experience has nothing whatsoever to do with Italian universities then or now.

Then neither do yours from post 60 yet you don't even see the dichotomy.

I love the snooty, dare I say pretentious language about how students that didn't take fifty languages have nothing on you.

Did you, sometime in the past, have your Corpus callosum severed? You appear to suffer from a split brain, among myriad other issues...

I find it amazing how you are an expert on every subject there is, impressive and you learned it while you sorted mail for forty years. You really ought to thank Google and Wiki.

[muawiyah]

I suppose I might have sorted some mail but my secretaries would have needed to open it first.

[muawiyah]

LX, you poor brain damaged idiot ~ I have a free subscription from SCIENCE for submitting "corrections" ~ and I'll guarantee you that didn't need access to Wiki or Google.

Ever read a book?