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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 774 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASSAROTTI, OTTAVIO GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1753-1829) , the founder of See also:schools for the See also:education of See also:deaf-mutes in See also:Italy, was See also:born at See also:Genoa in 1753. After qualifying himself for the See also:church, he entered the society of the Pietists, " Scuole See also:Pie," who devoted themselves to the training of the See also:young. His See also:ASSASSIN See also:superior learning caused him to be appointed to lecture on See also:theology to the students of the See also:order. In 18oi he heard of the See also:Abbe See also:Sicard's training of deaf-mutes in See also:Paris, and resolved to try something similar in Italy. He began with one See also:pupil, and had by degrees collected a small number See also:round him, when, in 18os, See also:Napoleon, See also:hearing of his endeavours, ordered a See also:convent to be given him for a school-See also:house, and funds forsupporting twelve scholars to be taken from the convent revenues. This order was scarcely attended to till 1811, when it was renewed, and in the following See also:year Assarotti, with a considerable number of pupils, took See also:possession of the new school. Here he continued, with the exception of a See also:short "See also:interval in 1814, till his See also:death in 1829. A See also:pension, which had been awarded him by the See also:king of See also:Sardinia, he bequeathed to his scholars.

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