Man wearing a suit and tie is in front of a podium with a microphone in front of him.
A person wearing a suit.
But the imposing weight of its past is lightened by the lively cosmopolitan studentry of its two universities (its state university, one of Italy's largest, was founded in 1270; its international division was set up by Mussolini) and its contemporary popularity as the sight of one of Europe's most important jazz festivals each July.