The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-07-18

IN OLOGNA deserves greater atten
- ton from the world than II
commonly receives. For some
reasons most travellers leave
unvislted this very old yet strangely
modern and democratic city of over
10000 inhabitants. Yet hardly any.
one In the world but has heard of the
town. For this is the home of Bologna
sausage, renowned and savory NOR.
tadella. writes Edgar Ansel Mowrer to
the Chicago Daily News.
First Ligurian, then an Etruscan, a
Roman. medieval, thoroughly mod
ern Italian town, Bologna Is today the
seat of good museum and fine col
lection of paintings of the late rena-
scence, type Guido REM. Architecture
ally, however, 1t is predominantly me-
dleSal. The finest of Its fine old public
buildings are sort of Lombard gothic.
Over its fine palaces. Its solid pictur-
esque d-worldliness, rise many tow
ers-that of the Asinelli more than 800
years old and 800 feet high. 1t leans
four feet out of the perpendicular.
Near II, near enough to astonish q WIS.,
itor-one cannot imagine why these
two should have been begun within a
year and within thirty feet of each
other-is the other leaning tower, the
Tore Garisenda, unfinished, only 1876
feet high, but eight feet out of the
perpendicular. Pisa's famous leaning
tower is % feet higher and only leans
IA feet. But all this and more can be
found In any guide book.
More interesting are the intimate
sensations and aspects of the place, its
personality among cities. These de-
mand and will repay visit to the
handsome medieval town-medieval
yet quite modern-thronged with his
toric specters. Here EMO, son of the
Emperor Frederick II, was confined for
some twenty years after Bologna with
the rest of the Lombard league defeat
ed the emperor at Fossalta. Here in
1917 was held a session of the Council
of Trent. here Rossini studied music
early In the last century, and later
built himself a house. And here, too,
and splendid figure. taught literature
and wrote beautiful and defiant words.
At the hotel where 1 write is an in
scription to the effect that Lord Byron
once ''lived and consplred" In this very
house. And the inscription is by Car
iueci. Yet perhaps the greatest citizen
Of Bologna was Giovanni Calvin, the
inventor of the galvanic battery and
of Franklin.
Oldest University There.
"Bononia docet"-Bologna teaches
the inscription on many an
I'D coin. The university, the oldest, If
am not mistaken, in Europe. is re-
,uted to have been founded by Theo-
iosius the Great In 425. For nearly l.
100 years 1t has been mecca of stu
Tents. Even today its reputation,
hough less than 1t was, is consider
Ible. But in 1862 the number of stu
Tents is supposed TO have reached TO-
100. During the middle ages its name
vas synonymous with legal learning.
Bologna led in law, as Paris in the
logy. Women We're students and even
occupied PROFESSIONAL chairs.
The beauty of one fair pedagogue,
lovella d'Andrea, must have been dis
strous, for the good lady was COM
'elled to lecture from behind screen
The Archiginnasio Antico, an old build
ng formerly the seat of the university, !
'ears painted on its inner walls the
oats of arms of thousands of former {
tudents, literally from every country /.
n Europe. The newer buildings, near
he Pinacoteca, lack atmosphere. Yet ]
here are still many woman students.
noticed today with pleasure a con- '
tant passing of co-eds through the dig
lified main entrance. Alas the uni |
'ersity is itself party to the war. A
'lacard outside the building proclaims /
t place Of refuge in case of air raids,
o far uninterrupted.
Disturbed by the War. {
Yet not for nothing is Bologna a
ortress guarding the Apennine passes
nd the seat Of an army corps. At the .