. American engineer and railroad journal . .•^-/^.^^. -*>■♦< 1-1= CRUISER NEWARK. UNHED STATES NAVV. birds, with no greater danger than that of numerous duck-ings. Whether Dante grew overbold with some preliminarysuccesses, or whether he was impatient to display hisachievement before his fellow-citizens and his sovereign,he attempted to repeat the feat in Perugia, on the occa-sion of the marriage of Biu-tholoinciu .■Uviano^\\\\ the sis-ter of Jean Paul Baglioni. Starting from the top of thehighest tower in the city of Perugia, he sailed across thepublic square and balanced himself for a
. American engineer and railroad journal . .•^-/^.^^. -*>■♦< 1-1= CRUISER NEWARK. UNHED STATES NAVV. birds, with no greater danger than that of numerous duck-ings. Whether Dante grew overbold with some preliminarysuccesses, or whether he was impatient to display hisachievement before his fellow-citizens and his sovereign,he attempted to repeat the feat in Perugia, on the occa-sion of the marriage of Biu-tholoinciu .■Uviano^\\\\ the sis-ter of Jean Paul Baglioni. Starting from the top of thehighest tower in the city of Perugia, he sailed across thepublic square and balanced himself for a long lime in theair, amid the acclamations of the multitude. Unfortu-nately the iron forging which managed his left wing sud-denly broke, so that he fell upon Notre Dame Church andhad one leg broken. Upon his recovery he seems to havegiven up further experiment, but went to teach mathe-matics at Venice, where he died of a fever before he hadreached forty years of age. Granting the tradition to be true, the apparatus used byDante must have been
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