Welcome everybody to sic nostra labitur aetas.
Welcome to you, and to me as well.
It has been a long time since I wrote something about me, about my days, my passions, my world. In the case of this website, it had never happened before 🙂
Sic nostra labitur aetas, “thus passes our time”, but also “thus vanishes our time” or “thus goes our life”. This Latin saying can be found painted on some sundials, and not only in Italy. For example, in the town of Middleham, in the district of North Yorkshire, England, there is a house – commonly known as “the sundial house” – which is called like this quite simply because its facade has a sundial with this Latin saying painted on the upper part of the dial itself.
Another sundial with the same scary but anyway truthful message, can be found in Roccavione, a town in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy. In this case, the sundial is located on the facade of a house in Piazza L. Biagioni.
Sic nostra labitur aetas, ludit humana divina potentia (“Thus passes our time, the divine power mocks wordly things”) is the message written on a second sundial in the same town (Roccavione), but in a different place, that is in Via Giordanengo, No. 42. This second sundial was actually created first, since it is the oldest of the two. It dates back to 1798 and has been restored in 1993.
Yes, my dears. That’s the way it is. I would have liked to tell you how much the measuring of time in hours, minutes, seconds and so on, affected – and still affects – our life, but there is not much time left for me to talk about this subject. I could do that another time.
I wish you all a beautiful time.
Yours
Carla
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