IMOLA, a town and episcopal see of Emilia, Italy (anc. Forum Cornelii), province of Bologna, 21 m. southeast of that town by rail, 14o ft. above sea-level. Pop. (town) ; 40,030 (commune). The cathedral of S. Cassiano possesses in teresting reliquaries, and contains the tomb of Petrus Chrysologus, archbishop of Ravenna (d. 449), a native of Imola. S. Domenico has a fine Gothic portal and S. Maria in Regola an old campanile. The town also contains some fine palaces. The communal library has some mss., including a psalter with miniatures, that once belonged to Sir Thomas More (13o4). The citadel is square with round towers at the angles. Imola has two large lunatic asylums with over I,800 inmates. The Madonna del Piratello, 2 m. outside the town to the north-west, is in the early Renaissance style (1488) ; the campanile was probably built from Bramante's plans in I506.
See L. Orsini, Imola (Bergamo, Arti Grafiche, 1907) well illustrated.