Rino Alessi

"We used to say the "fat Bologna" wanting to allude more than to the weight of the inhabitants, to their carnality, their love for good food and the healthy physiological consequences of this love. The "fat Bologna" was anything but the maze-like conventual world that Ugo Foscolo had perhaps seen in a moment of bad mood. (p. 7)"

"Bologna was beautiful, lovable, worthy of being enjoyed with soul and flesh. Behind the bright windows of the Zanichelli bookshop the eternally angry spirit of Carducci still hovered. (p. 10)"

"The great dates in Bologna were the «premieres» of the opera season at the Teatro Comunale, in autumn (the Bolognese public boasted, rightly, Wagnerian after a famous premiere in Lohengrin directed by Angelo Mariani) and at carnival, the «flower ball». (p. 10)"

"Rino Alessi, Hope beyond the river, Cappelli editore, Bologna 1959."

"Chino Alessi"