Bologna: Palazzo Bocchi (1546) Not quite the most modest way to show what a learned person you
Bologna: Palazzo Bocchi (1546)Not quite the most modest way to show what a learned person you are. Kindly pointed out to me by Simone Testa of the Italian Academies Project: the facade of the palazzo beloning to the Italian humanist Achille Bocchi (1488-1562) and the seat of his Bolognese Accademia Hermatena. Two inscriptions run along the rusticated base of the front: one is the only example of inscription in Hebrew on a monument building existing in Italy and Europe and reproduces a verse from psalm 120 of the Psalter in Jewish characters and reads: “Deliver me from the liars, God! They smile so sweetly but lie through their teeth.” The other one is in Latin and is taken from the Epistle 1 by Horace and reads:“Rex eris, aiunt, si recte facies” (“do well, thou shalt be crowned”).Copyright -- source link
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