Divine Comedy's Last Laugh From: The Washington Post | Date: September 30, 1999| Author: | Copyright 1999 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Recently I had vivid instruction in the endurance of strong public opinion. I was in Ravenna, an off-the-beaten-track city on the calf of the Italian boot. It's hard to get to, and despite its treasures, it got only a million tourists last year, a handful by Italian standards.

You have to take a slow train to Ravenna--it stops nine times on the way from Bologna--at places with names like Horse Bath (Bagnacavallo). The first thing I noticed when I got there is that unlike Rome, which is undergoing paroxysms of face-lifting, swathed in scaffolding in preparation for the double whammy of the ...

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