Comment by Phiwise_
4 years ago
Rome had a conception of statistics? That's very interesting. I'd always been told that it was a relatively new science coming from french aristocracy gambling or something.
4 years ago
Rome had a conception of statistics? That's very interesting. I'd always been told that it was a relatively new science coming from french aristocracy gambling or something.
Sorry, it's modern Roman, not ancient. Trilussa wrote in Romanesco, which is a Central Italian dialect (Tuscan and central Italian form a somewhat of a linguistical continuum, while southern Italian and northern languages are not mutually intelligible).
Carlo Salustri, artistically signing with the anagram Trilussa, died in 1950.
I too read "Roman" to refer to empire. Maybe because of the Latin-sounding single name, or maybe because I'm used to identifying people by their nationality rather than their city.