Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-01-09

- tlOn from the world imam 1t
Z commonly receives. For some
reasons most travellers leave
unvisited 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 q Ligurian, then an Etruscan, a
Roman, q medieval, q thoroughly mod
ern Italian town, Bologna Is today the
seat of q good museum and q fine col
lection of paintings of the late rena-
scence, type Guido REM. Architecture
ally, however, it Is predOminantly me-
dieval. The finest Of it's fine old public
buildings are sort Of Lombard gothic.
Over it's fine palaces, it's solid pictur-
esque Old-worldliness, rise many tow
ers-that Of the Asinelli more than 500
years old and 800 feet high. 1t leans
four feet out of the perpendicular.
Near it, near enough to astOnish 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 156
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
torlc 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
1547 was held q session of the Council
of Trent, here Rossini studied music
early in the last century, and later
built himself a house. And here, too,
Carducci, modern Italy's greatest poet
and a splendid figure, taught literature
and wrote beautiful and defiant words.
At the hotel where I write Is an IL
scription to the effect that Lord Byron
once lived and conspired" in this very
house. And the inscription Is by Car
ducci. Yet perhaps the greatest citizen
of Bologna was Giovanni Calvin, the
inventor Of the galvanic battery and
contemporary Of Franklin.
Oldest University There.
''Bononia docet"-Bologna teaches
announces the inscription On many an
old coin. The university, the oldest, if
/ am not mistaken, in Europe. is re-
puted to have been founded by Theo-
dosius the Great in 425. For nearly l.
500 years it has been a mecca of stu
dents. Even today it's reputation,
though less than it was, is consider
able. But in 1862 the number of stu
dents is supposed to have reached TO-
900. During the middle ages it's name
was synonymous with legal learning.
Bologna led in law, as Paris in the
ology. Women were students and even
occupied PROFESSIONAL chairs.
The beauty Of one fair pedagOgue,
Novella d'Andrea, must have been dis
astrous, for the good lady was COM
PEELED to lecture from behind a screen.
ing formerly the seat of the university,
bears painted on it's inner walls the
coats Of arms of thousands of former
students, literally from every country
in Europe. The newer buildings, near
the Pinacoteca, lack atmosphere. Yet
there are still many woman students.
/ noticed today with pleasure con-
slant passing Of co-eds through the dig
nified main entrance. Alas! the uni
versity is itself party to the war. A
placard outside the building proclaims
it place of refuge in case of air raids,
so far uninterrupted. a....
Disturbed by the War.
Yet not for nothing is Bologna a
fortress guarding the Apennine passes
and the seat Of an army corps. At the