7 min readSep 15, 2021
Bologna’s Three T’s
Discovering Pleasures of this City of Towers, Tortellini, and Tette
Whenever I’m in Italy I find myself standing next to a stranger, admiring a naked woman.
Such as when I stood in Bologna’s Piazza Maggiore with a scholarly-looking signor, gasping over a naked nymph who was spouting water from her breasts. The sculpture, (accompanied by three sister nymphs), forms the base of the Fountain of Neptune. The stranger…