Download or read book Georgetown's Second Founder written by Giovanni Grassi and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Grassi was the ninth president of Georgetown and pioneered its transition to a modern university, earning him the moniker Georgetown’s Second Founder. Originally published in Italian in 1818 and translated here into English for the first time, Grassi’s rich observations of life in the young republic will fascinate historians of Catholicism.