Latin writing on the door of a villa in Rapallo
Above the entrance to Villa Robilant, in Rapallo, there is this Latin phrase by Horace which says:
Non incedo per ignes suppositos cineri doloso (which means: You walk on burning coals hidden by deceptive ashes).
I don't quite understand the meaning but I think it's: be careful because under the deceptive ash, burning embers are hidden.
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Considered one of the greatest poets of the ancient age, as well as a master of stylistic elegance and gifted with an unusual irony, he was able to face the political and civil vicissitudes of his time as a placid Epicurean lover of the pleasures of life, dictating what for many are still the canons of the ars vivendi.
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