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  Adrienne DeAngelis
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Subject: Save Johns Hopkins'  Villa Spelman
From:    "Ittai Weinryb" <[log in to unmask]>
Date:    Thu, February 23, 2006 7:38 pm
To:      [log in to unmask]
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To the dismay of faculty, staff and students, the administration of the
Johns Hopkins University has announced its plans to sell the Villa
Spelman. The Villa Spelman has played a pivotal role in the intellectual
life of Florence for over twenty five years, hosting weekly Italian
Studies seminars led by the finest scholars from around the world and
frequent conferences whose published proceedings represent cutting-edge
research on Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque studies. The sale puts at
risk this celebrated program and the many other projects associated with
the Villa Spelman. Upon receiving the announcement that the Villa Spelman
is to be sold, Walter Stephens, Director since 2001, resigned in protest.
Please sign the online petition:
<http://www.PetitionOnline.com/spelman/petition.html> to save the Villa a
Spelman.







Many thanks, Ittai Weinryb.





Ittai Weinryb

268 Mergenthaler Hall

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD 21218




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