Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-01-04
LETTERS FROM ITALY.
Bologna, Florence Churches; Pal-
lnces Galleries of Painting and Sculp-
turc Museums. Libraries and Places of
Historic Interest.

Florence Dec If, 1893.
TO tho Free Press:
| wrote you last from Venice. We came
thence hither, stopping day in Bologna on
the way. Most Americans | suppose as
socntc that city chiefly with the aromatic
sallsagcs, which bear its name. 1t has other
and plcasantcr associations for the traveller
who pays it even no more than passing
visit. 1t is a walled city of G,OOO inhabi-
tants. with a recorded history extending
back beyond the Christian era, and beyond
the Punc war. In its great university.
founded 14OO wears ago, the anatomy of the
human frame was first taught, rs we are
told. and here gulVaui'm was discovered,
and here the council of Trent met in lJlI.
1t has 1870 churches-unc of which, that Of
San Pctrono--w was intended TO be the largest
cathedral in Italy. but the work ON il stop
ped when il was two-thirds built, aud il will
ncvor be completed / shall remember Bo
logna for its arcadcd sidewalks where its
citizens and visitors walk sheltered from sun
in summer aud from rain in winter; for its
great fountain of Neptune; for its strange
leaning towers. one OF which leans 10 feet
from the perpendicular in height Of 40
feet and the other, near by, rises To some
300 feet but with less obliqutv; for its
academy of fine art. which contains Raph-
apl's st Cecilia. some Of Guido best works,
and many paintings by Domnichino, Ami
bale Carracci. GuercinO and others, and a
very fuc collection of ctchinsS and engrav-
ingS, and for its great museum. with It's
vast collection Of relics and antiquities going
back to the caVc-dWellcr.. and brought
down through the Egyptian, ttruscHn, Ro-
man and Greciau cras OF art and industry:
its hrOnzes and arms and musical instlu-
ments. and object, illustrating the life of
man for 1000 years Bologna is a most in
torcsting city; and We should have been glad
to see more of it.
That | have written YOU nothing about
| Florence. during the three weeks we have
been here, is simply owing tn the plethora
of thing, to be Scel and admired. To I'M
dertakc Ia describe them all would be like
| trying 10 describe in detail the leaves of the
| forest in a newspaper letter If one is in
tercstcd in the -rcut uamc, in literature, art
and human history this city was the honc
of Dante. Boocncio. Machiavclli. Calico,
| Giotto. Michel Angelo. Raphael. Leonardo
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