Lombardy

"... fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy,"

"In the time of my staying here, I went forth to Lombardy, and visited the famous Cities of Padua, Verona, and . The commendation of which is celebrated in these verses:Extollit Paduam, juris studium, & medicinæ. Verona, humanæ dat singula commoda vitæ. Exhaurit loculos ferrarea ferrea plenos."

"But when we crost the Lombard plain Remember what a plague of rain; Of rain at Reggio, rain at Parma; At Lodi, rain, Piacenza, rain.And stern and sad (so rare the smiles Of sunlight) look’d the Lombard piles; Porch-pillars on the lion resting, And sombre, old, colonnaded aisles."