IMOLA, Italy, city in the province of Bo logna, on the Santerno, 20 miles southeast of Bologna. It contains an ancient cathedral, two other interesting churches, several fine palaces, a communal library, a citadel, prison, lunatic Consult Welch, 'Recent Studies on Immu nity' (Medical News, 18 Oct. 1902) ; Prudden (Medical Record, 14 Feb, 1903) ; Ritchie (Journal of Hygiene, Vol. II, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 1902); and for general works, Fliigge, 'Die Mikroorganismen); Muir and Ritchie, 'Manual of Bacteriology' (1903) ; Kolle and Wasser mann, (1903); Zinser, (Im munity) (1917).
IMOLA, Innocenzo Italian painter, who took the name of his native town Imola, where he was born about 1480 and died about 1550. At the time in which he flourished family names were not so much used as at present and it was quite a common occurrence to name a person familiarly and constantly from the place, district or country of his origin. So Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci was called and answered to the name Imola. He was one of the trade artists and decorators of his day and worked in the shops of several noted painters who contracted for large orders for decorative paintings for churches and occasion ally for other purposes, including shipments of paintings to the Spanish colonies in America, more especially to Mexico. He seems to have
learned from the various great painters with whom he came into contact, imitating one after another. Thus, at various stages in his life his work carries reminiscences of his different masters. In his later work his coloring is strongly in the style of Raphael. Imola's figures are graceful and his designs good and generally satisfying but they lack the originality and inspiration of the greater artists of his day. Among his paintings are the frescoes in the church of San Michele of the Wood, Bologna, which were for a long time painted over with water-colors. These fine paintings, which cover the walls and roof of the ancient choir of the edifice, represent the 'Burial of the asylum and an agricultural school. Its indus trial establishments include silk mills, soap and leather works, brickyards and gunpowder works. Wine and vegetables are important items of trade. Imola is the Roman Forum Cornelii, a station of the Via /Emilia. For centuries it was little heard of until the period of the as cendancy of the Lombards. In 1480 it came into the possession of the lords of Forli and in 1500 was added to the states of the Church. Pop. 86,000.