Lippis et tonsoribus

The saying lippis et tonsoribus notum goes back to Horace, but the coupling of barbers and bleary-eyed people seems to have been already proverbial at the poet’s time. If barbers are traditionally fond of gossip, and therefore well-informed about everything, the same is not true for bleary-eyed people. The paper proposes that the bleary-eyed may have been thought to have contracted this eye-disease due to excessive peeking through chinks in doorposts and window shades. An appendix treats the disease of bleariness in Greek lexikon and literary tradition

Officina humanitatis. Studi in onore di Lia de Finis

il volume miscellaneo comprende una serie di contributi dedicati ai pi\uf9 vari argomenti, raccolti intorno a tre nuclei tematici: cultura classica, cultura moderna e contemporanea, cultura e storia trentin