Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-09-14

est and Magnificent Cathedral at
Florence.
BY S. V. LEIGH. d. d.
Bologna, once the richest metropo-
lis of Italy, is 100 miles from Venice.
We made the run in 4 hours through
miles OF vineyards, orchards and pic
turesque scenery. The train went by
Abano. where the historian Liyy was
born We saw Battaglie near to
which Petrarch had his birth. We
stopped for few minutes at Ferrara
city of $4,000 population. In the
tenth century it had great reputa-
tion for culture in literature and art.
Here is the castle in which Parisina
and her lover were beheaded. Byron
has told the sad story. Here are the
Sgreat palaces of the famous Este
family Here is the old home Of
Aristo the poet. And we sped on to
Bologna.
Bologna has lao, 900 inhabitants.
It had celebrity for architecture, learn
ing aud wealth as early as the sew
zenith century. 1t has figured con-
spicuously in many wars. Its renown-
ed University is the oldest one in the
world. On its staff of professors is a
man who speaks more than thirty
languages, flucntly. 1t also has one
OF the best schools Of art in Europe.
The city lies at the base of the Apen-
mines, on a beautiful plain Watered by
the rivers Savena and Reno. Its great
old walls are pierced by twelve gates.
It has more colonnades than any city
of earth, and it is called 1.-The City of
Arcades." A solitary street has ar
cades three miles long. Pedestrians
need no umbrellas TO protect them
from rain or solar heat. 1t has 100
churches, and twenty monasteries for
its monks. The most spacious and
magnificent of its churches is San Pc
: tronio, at the grand altar of which
the seventh of the popes called
!. Clement crowned Cnarlemagne as EN-
| peror of Italy, 40 years ago. Among
the array of beautiful paintings in the
Academy of Arts is Raphael's Saint
] Cecilia. In the Civic Museum are
many flne sculptures, paintings, gems
and curiosities. All Italian cities
purchase art works of beauty, or his
toric interest, to increase the fame Of
each metropolis and win the vista
tion of tourists. The Civic Museum
has gallery Of antiquities crowded
with interesting and valuable exhib-
it's. The central piazza of Bologna is
that of Vlttoria Emanuele on which
are located the great kings statue and
the magnificent fountain OF Neptune.
Six or eight palaces among many are
very historical, and several are now
used as museums. In Bologna are the
old homes Of Guido REM, Rossini,
Galvani and other famous men. The
beautiful park is named after the late
/ king Umberto's queen, Margherita. /
was attending band concert in it
at the hourwhen her lamented and
popular husband was assassinated.
The costly monuments and sarcophagi
in the Campo Santo are very beautiful
one of them--a wife defending her
. husband from the lance of Death. be-
Ting the handsomest in Italy. The
monuments of Pope Alexander the
Fifth, francesca Albergato, Malyezi,
Albergario, Romanzi, Maiana, Gener-
al Gabinskri, Murat King of Naples,
Canestri, and the Pepoli brothers are
very large and elegant. To Bologna
the ancient Emperor, Augustus Caesar,
brought, by a fine aquaduct, in the
days of Christ, the waters of great
springs 8 miles distant.
As In 1889 we stopped at the Grand
kHotel D'Italia, once the kings pal
lace.
n Leaving Bologna we had run of 81
Eliles to glorious Firenze, that we
Nall Florence. We passed many
lelaces of historical interest. The
tafain recrossed the Reno twenty-four
<times and went through Y tunnels.
Ehe scenery about the Apennines and
the Collina pass sublime. AT
Pistoja, a city Of $4,000 persons,
stands the monument marking the
battlefield on which Catiline was de-
!. feated sixty years before Jesus became
the incarnation of Deity.
Florence is a very progressive city
of 200, 900 people. The street cars
will take one Tar Out INTO Lne SUBURBS
for few cents. The river Amo runs
through the city and is spanned by
seven bridges. The Art galleries or
Florence are extensive and surprising
Iv rich in celebrated exhibits. For
several centuries the Medici family
spent vast sums on their enrichment
and extension. 1t is a city of Art edi-
fces, elegant palaces, beautiful gar
dens,. broad and modern streets and
great churches.
It's largest building is its renowned
Cathedral Think of church $50 it,
long, $50 wide at the Transcept, and
352 feet high from the floor to the
cross on the great dome. The dome
ia138 feet In diameter. Michael An
,telo selected 1t as his model for the
dreater one on St. Peters at Rome. The
vast interior is grand beyond descrip-
tion. Among its monuments and