The changes in the interior administration due to the progress of science and to the increase of funds are too complex for presentation here. The most radical are the disappearance. after the French Revolution, of the Faculty of Theology, which WaS once the sole authority, so that a Sor honnist was of course a theologian: the conse quent supremacy of literature and science. evinced by the organization of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, and by the founding of libraries and seminaries; and likewise by the establish ment, in the immediate neighborhood, of schools of medicine and law. The faculties of Science and Letters of the University of Paris are in stalled in the New Sorhonne and Minerra for 1901-92 reports that their libraries contain 263, 590 volumes.
At a recent date. connected more or less closely with the New Sorbonne. there were 10.000 stu dents, 100 professorships, and many accessory positions for associates and assistants. in addi tion to the works above named. consult Franklin, La Norbmme: sex (ğigloo's, sa bibliotheque, etc. (Paris, 1875).
An Italian troubadour of the thirteenth century who wrote in Provencal. He was a native of Goito, Mantua. The earliest mention of him has reference to a tavern brawl, which took place about 1220, and the last docu ment in which his name appears is dated 1269. While living at the Court of Richard of San Bonifazio, he carried off his wife, Cunizza, at the instigation of her brother, Ezzo lino da Romano. Soon afterwards he fled to
Provence, where, with the exception of visits to Spain and Portugal, he seems to have spent the greater part of his life. Here he took part in important public events, his name appearing as that of a witness in various treaties and other documents. In his old age he returned to Italy as a knight in the train of Charles of Anjou, and received from him several castles in Abruzzo as a reward for his services. As a poet he rises little above mediocrity. His political, moral, and personal sirventes show vigor and spirit, hut his love songs are purely conventional, and his didactic poem Documental,' Honoris has no unusual merit. His great tion depends upon treatment of him in Purgatorio, vi. and vii., where he becomes a type of high-minded nobility and patriotism. This conception is founded upon a sirvente on the death oflacatz, in which imagines his heart divided among the various princes who need its virtues. Dante has put into the mouth of his shade in Purgatory a similar vective. The poem of Browning which bears his name has but the slightest historical foundation. Consult: Cesare de Lollis, Vita e poesic di Sor dello di Goito (Halle, 1596).