The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-01-04

~ OLOGNA deserves greater atten-
- ton from the world than 1t
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 Ligurian, then an Etruscan, a
Roman, a medieval, thoroughly mod
ern Italian town, Bologna is today the
seat of good museum and a fine COL
lection of paintings Of the late rena-
scence, type Guido REM. Architecture
ally, however, it is predominantly me-
dieval. The finest of its fine old public
buildings are a sort of Lombard gothic.
Over its fine palaces, its solid pictur-
esque, old-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 1t, near enough to astonish Wis
itor-one cannot imagine why these
two should have been begun within
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 a 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
1547 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,
Carducci. modern Itaiy's greatest poet
and splendid figure, taught literature
nnd wrote beautiful and defiant words.
At the hotel where I write is an in
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 a
contemporary of Franklin.
Oldest University There.
"Bononia docet''-Bologna teaches
announces the inscription on many an
old coin. The university, the oldest, if
l am not mistaken, in Europe, is re-
Duted 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 its reputation,
though less than 1t was, Is consider
able. But in 1862 the number of stu
dents is supposed to have reached 10,-
900. During the middle ages its name
was synonymous with legal learning.
Bologna led in law, as Paris in the
ology. Women were students and even
occupied professorial chairs.
The beauty of one fair pedagogue,
Novella dAndrea, must have been dis
nstrous. for the good lady was COM
pelled to lecture from behind Il screen
The ArchiginnaSiO AnticO, an old build
ing formerly the seat of the university,
bears painted on its inner walls the