BARRILI, ANTONIO GIULIO Italian nov elist, was born at Savona, and was educated for the legal pro fession, which he abandoned for journalism in Genoa. He was a volunteer in the campaign of 1859 and served with Garibaldi in 1866 and 1867. From 1865 (Capitan Dodero) onwards he pub lished many popular novels. Some of the best of the later ones are Santa Cecilia (1886), Come un Sogno (1875), and L'Olmo e l'Edera (1877). His Raggio di Dio appeared in 1899. Barrili also wrote two plays and various volumes of criticism, including Il rinnovamento letterario italiano (1890) . He was elected to the Italian chamber of deputies in 1876; and in 1889 became pro fessor of Italian literature at Genoa.
The most typical example of this prac tice was at Bromfield school, Cumberland, where "it was the custom, time out of mind, for the scholars, at Fasting's Even (the beginning of Lent), to depose and exclude the master from the school for three days." During this period the school doors were barricaded and the boys armed with mock weapons. If the master's attempts to re-enter were successful, extra tasks were inflicted as a penalty, and willingly performed by the boys. On the third day terms of capitulation, usually in Latin verse, were signed, and these always conceded the immediate right to indulge in football and a cockfight. The custom was long retained at Eton and figures in many school stories.