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Piazza Galvani
This Square, formerly known as Piazza della Pace in 1801 due to the peace accord between Napoleon and Austria, used to be dominated by Il Pavaglione. Bologna’s economy benefitted greatly from silk production and so from 1449 between May and August this was a market of silk-worms and trading took place under a huge tent-like structure referred to as the ‘pavaglione’.
This statue by Adalberto Cencetti was placed here in 1879. The frogs legs to which Galvani is seen to be studying is an obvious reference to his discovery in 1771 that the muscles of dead frogs twitched when struck by a spark.
Now called Piazza Galvani since 1874, this Square was born out of the construction of the Archignnassio that it faces. This of course only came about with the cost of several historic buildings being destroyed to make way for this open space. As a consequence, this changed the course of the old Pavaglione Street which was much narrower and confined.
Apparently, this Square was also where the famous poet Giosue Carducci could be found hanging out, probably pouring over some literary texts or assignments.
References
Tiziano Costa – Marco Poli, Conoscere Bologna, Bologna 2005, p197.
Tiziano Costa – Elisa Panzacchi, Welcome to Bologna, Bologna 2007, p12.
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