place
Bologna
also: Болонья, Bologna
City in northern Italy famous for its arcades and leaning towers, and home to Raphael's painting of Saint Cecilia; a stop on Chekhov's spring 1891 Italian itinerary between Venice and Florence.
Reading notes
- To I. L. Leontyev, 1891. Florence. §3 Bologna with her arcades
Bologna, the second stop on the same itinerary, named for the porticoed arcades that line its streets -- a stock traveller's detail rather than a private joke.
- A Failure of Compensation §37 Bologna
One more Italian city on the letter-writer's restless circuit, named in the same breath as Venice and Rome.