to Genoa. PAVIA. $8. Route. 170
professors and students. In the first court are statues of the professors
Bordoni, Porta, and Panizzi; in the second a statue of Volta and
three memorial reliefs of professors attended by students. — Opposite
the university, in the Piazza d'ltalia, rises a statue of Italy.
The Corso next leads in a N. direction, past the Theatre, to the
old Castle (PL C, 3), erected by the Visconti in 1360-69, now used
as a barrack, and containing a handsome court of the 14th century.
— Adjacent, at the corner of the Passeggio di S. Croce, is the
church of S. Pietro in Cielo d'Oro, with a Romanesque facade.
At the back of the university lies the Ospedale Civico, and
farther E., in the Via Defendente Sacchi (formerly Canepanova)
the church of S. Maria di Canepanova (PL 15 ; C, 4), a small dome-
covered structure designed by Bramante (1492). — More to the N.,
at the corner of the Corso Cairoli (formerly Contrada del Collegio
Germanico), is the Romanesque church of S. Francesco (PI. 8; C,
4), of the 14th cent., with aisles and choir in the pointed style.
In the vicinity stands the Collegio Ghislieri (PL 18; C, 4), founded
in 1569 by Pius V. (Ghislieri), a colossal bronze statue of whom
has been erected in the piazza in front. On the E. side of the
Piazza Ghislieri is the Instituto di Belle Arti, containing col¬
lections of natural history, antiquities, etc.
In the Via Roma, to the W- of the university, to the right, i9
the Jesuits' Church (PI. 11; B, 4). — In the Contrada Malaspina
is the Casa Malaspina, at the entrance to the court of which are
busts of Boethius and Petrarch. The interior contains a small col¬
lection of engravings and paintings.
Boethius, when confined here by the Emperor Theodoric, composed his
work on the 'Consolation of Philosophy', and Petrarch once spent an
autumn here with his daughter and son-in-law. His grandson, who died
at the Casa Malaspina, was interred in the neighbouring church of S. Zeno.
A short poem of Petrarch in allusion to this event, in six Latin distiches,
is one of the many inscriptions on the wall opposite the entrance.
The Via Roma terminates in the Piazza del Carmine, with the
church of S. Maria del Carmine (PL 6; B, 4), a brick edifice of
fine proportions, flanked with chapels, and dating from 1375.
In the S.E. part of the town is the Collegio Borromeo (PL 16;
C, 5, 6), with its beautiful court, founded by St. Carlo Borromeo
in 1563; the vestibule is decorated with frescoes by Fed. Zuccari.
From Pavia to Alessandria via Valenza, 4072 M., by railway in
3 hrs. (fares 7fr. 40, 5fr. 20, 3fr. 75 c). The line crosses the Ticino and
intersects the Lomellina, or broad plain of the Po, in a S.W. direction.
Stations Cava-Carbonara, Zinasco, Pieve-Albignola, Sannazzaro, Ferrera,
Lomello, Mede, Castellaro, Torre-Beretti, Valenza; see p. 80. Hence to
Alessandria and Genoa, see p. 80, and pp. 82, 83.
From Pavia to Brescia via Cremona, 7772 M., railway in 5 hrs. (fares
14 fr. 5, 9fr. 85, 7fr. 5 c). — None of the stations are worthy of note
except Cremona itself.
The line intersects the fertile plain watered by the Po and the Olona.
Stations Molta San Damiano, Belgiojoso, with a handsome chateau; near
Corteolona the Olona is crossed. Then Miradolo, Chignolo on a small
tributa y of the Po, Ospedaletto, and Casalpusterlengo, where the line
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