Prophecy in stone on the opera house?
It is always interesting to read about inscriptions and the one above the Main Guard has been making the headlines. Inscriptions may record the past, illustrate the present or forecast the future. A somewhat prophetic marble tablet is said to have been...
It is always interesting to read about inscriptions and the one above the Main Guard has been making the headlines. Inscriptions may record the past, illustrate the present or forecast the future. A somewhat prophetic marble tablet is said to have been found during the recent excavations for the foundations of the opera house.
It is still being cleaned and interpreted - as Latin is a dead language - but I am told that it is something to this effect: Quod olim non fecerunt miseri Bergonzi, non faciant novi barbari in nomine Gonzi. (What once the wretched Bergonzi did not do, let not the modern Barbarians do in Gonzi's name.