The Tomahawk., 1918-01-03

~ 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
tadelln, writes Edgar Ansel Mowrer to
the Chicago Daily News.
First u Ligurian, then IN Etruscan, q
Roman, a 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, it Is predominantly mo
dieval. The finest of it's fine old public
buildings are sort of Lombard gothic.
Over it's 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 it, near enough to astOnish n 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 15G
feet high, but eight feet out Of the
perpendicular. Pisa's famous leaning
tower is % feet higher and only leans
ii feet. But all this and more can be
found in any guide book.
More interesting are the intimate
sensations and aspects of the place, It's
personality among cities. These de-
mand and will repay a visit to the
handsome medieval town-medieval
yet quite modern-thrOnge1 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 ut Fossalta. Here in
1547 was held session Of the Council
# Trent, here Rossini studied music
,rly in the last century, and later
Quilt himself 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 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 q
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 1t has been a mecca of stu
dents. Even today its reputation,
though less than it was, Is consider
able. But in 1862 the number of STU
dents is supposed to have reached TO-
600. During the middle ages Its name
was synonymous with legal learning
Bologna led in law, rs Paris in the
ology. Women were students and even
occupied PROFESSIONAL chairs.
The beauty Of one fair pedagogue,
Novclla dAndrea, must have been dis
as.rous. for the good lady was COM
pelled to Lecture from behind screen
The .srchiginnasio Antico, an old build
Ing formerly the seat Of the university,
bears painted on its 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.
I noticed today with pleasure n coz
slant passing Of co-eds through the Dig
niiied main entrance. Alas! the uni
rersity is itself party to the war. A
placard outside the building proclaims
it a place of refuge in case of dir raids,
so far uninterrupted.
Disturbed by the War.
Yet not for nothing is Bologna
fortress guarding tie Are-anine passes
AID the seat U: an army cOrps. At he