Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-11

early in the fourteenth century. To
| it also belongs the honor of discoY-
eriag gaIyanism. This University
was remarkable for the number of
| its learned female professors. In the
fourteenth century, Novella dan
dria frequently occupied her fathers
chair in teaching law; and il is re-
corded by Christina de Pisan that
her beauty was so great that a cur
tain was drawn before her faceor
a veil more ikely-in order that the
latter might not distract the atten
ton of the students. Moore has
seized on the incident to popularize
/ it in these lines:
Drawn before her,
! Lest, If her charms were seen, the stu
/ = ldantas d s-,-ff.- k.s <
Should let their young eyes wander DER
And quite forget their Jurisprudence.
The library of this once renowned
university fills many great rooms;
how many thousand Of volumes of
manuscript and print it contains, l
did not learn. The number of stu
dents now scarcely reach 700, which
is not atenth of what once pursued
ther studies there.
In its museum of antiquities was
shown several almost perfect skele-
tons of the Etruscan period, recently
discovered 90 ft. below the surface in
the old oity cemetery. Theyare be-
lieved to be, from the necklaces
bracelets. rings, vases and other Or
naments found with them, not less
than $500 years old! More than 500
in all were exhumed in 1871. The
most ancient ecclesiastical edifce,
perhaps, in Italy, is
THE SAN sTEFANo.
1t is quite labyrinth, formed by
the union of seven churches. The
most primitive of the group was
erected A. d. 4ss. The visitors were
shown affairs, urns, crueifxes, bap-
tlstries, images of the Virgin and
Saints, holy garments, bones of
Saints, bas-reliefs, relics and pic
lures, all said to date back to the |
fourth, fifth and sixth centuries. Ev-
cry thing has a musty, fusty, moul-
dy, ancient look and smell, or, as |
more devout writer would say, an
air of holy odor and sacred sanctitysl
The first things seen on approach
ing Bologna, and the last on leaving
it, are the two square, brick q
LEANING TOWERS.
The short one is 200 feet high, and
feet out of perpendicular. The
taller one is S2l feet in altitude and
leans z feet. From the top of it
there is obtained a magnificent view.
When the air is clear, the Alps
on the opposite side of the great
plain, beyond Verona, 60 or 20 miles
distant, may be seen. it was erect
ed 800 years ago as lockout tower,
in order TO discover the approaching
The most beautiful "Csmpo San
to" / have seen in Italy, is
THE CEMETERY OF BOLOGNA.
It was originally an extensive mon
astery, but Napoleon, in the year
1900, suppressed it, and converted it
into cemetery; at the same time,
by edict, forbidding any more inter-
ments within the city. With the
exception of the chapel, none of the
buildings are more than one story
high, which just suits the purpose to
which he devoted it. The corridors
exceed mile in length, and it covers
under roof at least ten or twelve
acres. This City of the Dead con-
sains hundreds of marble monuments
and busts of great artistic beauty.
The University has kind of Pan
,heon for the interment Of the learn
ID Professors. One corridor is set
apart for the Jews, and another for
he Protestants, Of whom there are
many in the city. Napoleon's great
'avalry- Marshal, Murat, is buried
lere, and there is erected over his
emains the most magnificent monu-
mental group of statuary in the Cam
70 Santo.
l have dWelt thus long on Bologna
because it is generally overlooked by
ravelers, and regarded as unimpor- |
ant, especially if they are in hur-
y to see Rome, or Florence or Ven {
ce, which is usually the case. Were I
not pressed for time, would de-
-Ote the remainder of this letter to I
descriptions of interesting things
here seen, which must be omitted.
The next point of interest on my
cute was -& 3Gt 9a} yEi55af
MoDENA, Ii
be former Capital of the Duchy of {
he same name. It is only an hours l
IN of the cars from Bolognas4 Mo. /
ena contains $4,000 inhabitants, {
nd subsists on the surrounding fer t
lie plains. The Ducal palace con- l
aims upwards of 500 pictures, some '
them by the old masters, and ma t
y on secular subjects by modern
which lis quite relief to i
ne eeye, as it becomes utterly weary fI
f Saints and Madonnas, Crucifx- b
ms, and Martydoms, Assumptions, /
nd Ascensiohs, professions Of monks p
nd pious ecstasies, after it has con. v
thousands of each kind. a
here is such a thing as a surfeit of /
ainted piety and sculptured sane s
ty. The Cathedral is a noted a
uilding, erected, or rather begun in o
poo, and never finished, which is the Il
lse with nearly all the great church. {
, in Italy. This sDuomon contains e
lie usual sort of paintings, statuary, c
nd curious old relics, with the usu- p
quantity of miraculous traditions g
nd other drafts on faith which P
.merican visitors are not often able n
honor. The Campanile, or bell a
'wer, ascends into the heavens a25 t
'et perpendicular, and does not lean Il
ke the one over the way in Bologna, n
ut it is quite as ancient, and was a
-ected to watch the doings, and es- h
ecially the out-goings, of.the Bo! =
lgnese, The Public Library cons u
'ins lOS, 900 volumes, many Of them !,