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March 28, 2009
Sun! Swedes!
There I was drinking a 2nd cappuccino and deciding whether to go into San Petronio before or after the Morandi Museum when the King of Sweden drove by - in a motorcade, of course.
Later in the day I finally found out why he's in Bologna in the paper - he's visiting Alma Mater. By the way, Bologna invented that phrase. The familiar name of the University is Alma Mater Studiorum, literally the Sweet Mother of Studies, but more properly the Wetnurse of Studies.
So when you call your old school Alma Mater you're harking back to that particular medieval tradition that sees study as nourishment.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at March 28, 2009 10:14 AM
Comments
Ah ... this seems much more your milieu.
Posted by: JSTB at March 28, 2009 6:07 PM