| «Post hec paucis passuum milibus, portus et ipse manufactus, Pisanum vocant, aderit et fere contiguum Liburnum, ubi prevalida turris est, cuius in vertice pernox flamma navigantibus tuti litoris signum prebet» | (After a few miles there is the man-made harbor called Pisan port, close and almost adjoining Livorno, where a very strong tower arise, from whose top every night the flame shows the sailors the safe shore) |
He was describing our lighthouse.
See also: The Lighthouse - The Caged Lighthouse - On Top of the Lighthouse - The Fresnel Lens
External links: Petrarch - Lighthouse (Wikipedia)
10 comments:
A magnificent lighthouse, too!
So it's an old one then! Looking good.
I am impressed, VP. Petrarch didn't write anything about Hartford.
Fortress-like.
He talked about it well and it is a beautiful one.
(Talking of lighthouses and keepers, there was an article about Clet last week in the local Quimper paper. He seems to have been there... :-) As for Ar Men, where his father was keeper, it was unlit for a long time and France being France, it took them ages to repair...)
I really like this one. Looks very sturdy, what you want from a lighthouse!
I also like this lighthouse.
We moderns, or at least we in non-seacoast places, tend not to realize how much comfort and safety lighthouses provided to seafarers, especially back then.
An apt description, I'd say. Emphasis on 'strong'.
Lovely! Both the tower and the shot.
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