I have a friend that is heading to Italy for a few weeks (12/22) and
was originally planning on bringing the road bike. But, are there are any local
amateur cross races then, he would prefer to bring the cross bike.

He asked if I could locate an amateur cyclocross schedule
for Italy knowing he'll be in the Bologna / Ferrara area ( Emilio Romangna ).

Thanks in advance!

any websites that would list races?

Larry

Yeah go to the UCI web www.uci.ch site and look under the national federations link, Italy's national cycling body will have a schedule of all the races listed, usually sorted by date and categories.