When Betty was spinning?
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Here we speak di Berta, quella che fila nel noto detto popolare, che ancora oggi pronunciamo per alludere ad un passato che si perde nella notte dei tempi. Chi era Berta, e che c'entra l'attività di filatrice con l'idea di un'epoca remota? E' solo perché oggi non si fila più a mano? No, perché il detto era già in voga quando in Italia abbondavano le spole e le donne chine sul telaio. C'è una versione leggendaria sulle origini del motto, riportata dal grande poeta dialettale Gigi Zanazzo, che lega il personaggio di Berta a Lucio Domizio Enobarbo, imperatore dal 53 dopo Cristo col nome di Nerone Claudio Cesare, incendiario e primo persecutore dei Cristiani. Tra i molti aneddoti fioriti intorno alla figura di Nerone, tra le più discusse dell'antichità, There is also this: Bertha was a poor woman who spent his life spinning sewing the ends meet. One day passes in front of the emperor and stops to watch her work to the shuttle, perhaps interested in the similarity between a woman and the image of the Fates, weavers who weave the thread divinity of every human life. Nero is known, considering the high singer and poet, do not overlook any possible source of inspiration. Excited and intimidated, Berta Nero wishes long life: "What the gods, Caesar, give you a thousand years of good health!" The emperor, who could not enjoy the benefit of the people, asked the astonished because of that greeting. At that point, the spinner, in a surge of realism, he replied: "Why the worst is never dead." Nero was a kind unpredictable: anyone who could kill for trivial reasons, but he could appreciate the wisdom and courage. And so he said to Bertha, "Woman, come tomorrow in my building and brings you all the flax yarn from now until tomorrow morning. You will not regret." Berta was the ice will strangle me with linen, he thought. But as disobeying the Emperor? The next morning, therefore, knocked on the doors of the Domus Aurea and stood trembling in front of Nero, by handing in his hands all over the yarn. And the Caesar gave proof of magnanimity he loved due: he called a servant and ordered him to give the woman who could hold many land the linen thread. Since that day, Berta, become rich, stopped spinning. Rome to spread the voice immediately dell'insperata luck happened to the woman. And all the spinners are stacked in front of the imperial palace, hoping to get at least a part of what got former colleague. But Nero sent them a freedman with his response: "All home! It is no longer the time that Bertha was spinning ...".
Here we speak di Berta, quella che fila nel noto detto popolare, che ancora oggi pronunciamo per alludere ad un passato che si perde nella notte dei tempi. Chi era Berta, e che c'entra l'attività di filatrice con l'idea di un'epoca remota? E' solo perché oggi non si fila più a mano? No, perché il detto era già in voga quando in Italia abbondavano le spole e le donne chine sul telaio. C'è una versione leggendaria sulle origini del motto, riportata dal grande poeta dialettale Gigi Zanazzo, che lega il personaggio di Berta a Lucio Domizio Enobarbo, imperatore dal 53 dopo Cristo col nome di Nerone Claudio Cesare, incendiario e primo persecutore dei Cristiani. Tra i molti aneddoti fioriti intorno alla figura di Nerone, tra le più discusse dell'antichità, There is also this: Bertha was a poor woman who spent his life spinning sewing the ends meet. One day passes in front of the emperor and stops to watch her work to the shuttle, perhaps interested in the similarity between a woman and the image of the Fates, weavers who weave the thread divinity of every human life. Nero is known, considering the high singer and poet, do not overlook any possible source of inspiration. Excited and intimidated, Berta Nero wishes long life: "What the gods, Caesar, give you a thousand years of good health!" The emperor, who could not enjoy the benefit of the people, asked the astonished because of that greeting. At that point, the spinner, in a surge of realism, he replied: "Why the worst is never dead." Nero was a kind unpredictable: anyone who could kill for trivial reasons, but he could appreciate the wisdom and courage. And so he said to Bertha, "Woman, come tomorrow in my building and brings you all the flax yarn from now until tomorrow morning. You will not regret." Berta was the ice will strangle me with linen, he thought. But as disobeying the Emperor? The next morning, therefore, knocked on the doors of the Domus Aurea and stood trembling in front of Nero, by handing in his hands all over the yarn. And the Caesar gave proof of magnanimity he loved due: he called a servant and ordered him to give the woman who could hold many land the linen thread. Since that day, Berta, become rich, stopped spinning. Rome to spread the voice immediately dell'insperata luck happened to the woman. And all the spinners are stacked in front of the imperial palace, hoping to get at least a part of what got former colleague. But Nero sent them a freedman with his response: "All home! It is no longer the time that Bertha was spinning ...".
