In Italy, a Partisan Defender of Foreign Professors

In the high-ceilinged chamber, five black-robed men sit on a dais behind an imposing carved bench, underneath the inscription "The Law Is Equal for All." Facing them a few yards away, a similarly clad man stands behind a lectern, arguing for the plaintiffs in the case of Bivort et al. v. the University of Verona.

Among the spectators sits one of the plaintiffs, a bespectacled, balding man with a neatly trimmed gray beard, listening carefully and taking notes. Nothing in his expression

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