In every trip a little rain must fall.

So, € 5 later after buying an umbrella from a street vendor, ala NYC, I was off to the University district. While the porticoes protect 90% of the time, you still must crosss the street.
The main university building, Palazzo Poggi, houses a number of small museums, including a naval musuem with large ship models, an obstetrics museum with far too many models of pre-natal development from the 17th and 18th centuries, and a zoology museum with a variety of dead animals.
For lunch I dined at Trattoria Anna Maria, a recommendation from the ragu issue of Bon Appetite. I had another wonderful plate of lasagna, a tie with the Lasagna feom Ristoranti Diane. Dessert was Fiordilatte della casa, a flan-like dessert with a hard cracked caramel crust on top.
Now I am off to see the porticoe to beat all porticoes, with 666 arches and 4km long.
Pace (peace)