... lamenting the number of recommendation letters that Del Re had secured, and complaining that Del Re was always there lobbying and had gained so much ground that Pincherle feared a major coup. Del Re was arguing that he needed to relocate his family to Bologna. He had even approached Enriques himself asking for support and offering to help secure for Enriques the position he would vacate at Modena!

Equipped with its own organic and very fine workmanship was the small collection developed by Alfonso Del Re in the Room of Descriptive Geometry attached to the corresponding chair of which he was the professor. Del Re also mentions this in 'The programme of the course and programme of the examination for the academic year 1906-1907', where the list of geometric models, constructed between 1901 and 1906 by the students of the School of Descriptive Geometry of the University of Naples, is presented. There are 36 models, of which thirty-one are in wood and wire, three in wood and brass, and two in wood, brass and horsehair. In this fine collection, the frames - generally called "castles" - which held the natural fibres of the striped surfaces represented, were made of artistically worked wood using a fretwork technique.

The 'Course of Algebra of Logic' published in Naples in 1907 by professor Alfonso M Del Re was the subject of extensive quotations, especially by some American scholars. I talked about this course, which took place regularly in the four years preceding its publication, at the previous Congress of the SISM in Alba. Del Re's course followed the path traced out by Ernst Schröder and took into account the complete set of independent postulates for class logic which were first set out by Edward Huntington in July 1904. With a later 1911 memoir, Alfonso Del Re illustrated a series of arguments on the independence of his series of postulates, in addition to those implicit in the reference to Huntington. B A Bernstein in a paper read before the American Mathematical Society (in San Francisco) on 25 October 1913, after quoting the contributions of Charles Peirce, Edward Huntington and H M Sheffer, proposed a series of postulates of completion in terms of the operation "exception". Bernstein himself deduced the sufficiency of these from the series of postulates indicated by A Del Re in his 'Logical Algebra', adding new evidence to those implicit in the reference to Huntington. In a postscript to an Italian translation of 1918, Dr Rosaria Giordano reports on the content of the letter that Bernstein himself sent to Del Re on 8 April 1917. In the same postscript he took note of a small necessary change, advising that all that remains is the integration of the reading of the text of 'Algebra della Logica' with the reading of the Memoir of Del Re of 1911.