"Bologna la grassa."

"Bologna the rich (or fat)."

"As seems the Carisenda, to behold Beneath the leaning side, when goes a cloud Above it so that opposite it hangs;Such…"

"The Bolognese is full of fire, passion, generosity, and sometimes imprudence."

"Bologna non è conosciuta quanto essa merita: le sue bellezze severe, l'aspetto tetro delle vie e delle case, le fughe…"

"Bologna is not as well known as it deserves: its severe beauties, the gloomy appearance of its streets and houses, it…"

"’Twas night; the noise and bustle of the day Were o’er. The mountebank no longer wrought Miraculous cures,—he and his…"

"O Milan, O the chanting quires, The giant windows’ blazon’d fires, The height, the space, the gloom, the glory! A mou…"

"Yes! pleased, on our land, from his azure way, The Sun ever smiles with unclouded ray. But never, fair isle, shall th…"

"Tarentum calls On you her wooers, no unworthy bride; Chief harbour, richest mart of Italy. Whither Philanthus, in Lac…"