Sconfortante analisi del mercato del lavoro a Venezia, "Among the lousy job options for Venetians: serving pizza, selling fake local “artifacts,” and working at the Venice Biennal", Giulio Piovesan, Hyperallergic
Molto interessante questa recente storia dell'asterisco (Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags*: *The Stories Behind the Symbols on Our Keyboard, Bodleian Library Publishing), che lo fa risalire ad Aristarco di Samotracia, "Sumerian pictographic writing includes a sign for “star” that looks like a
modern asterisk. These early writings from five thousand years ago are
the first known depiction of an asterisk; however, it seems unlikely
that these pictograms are the forerunner of the symbol we use today.
Palaeographers know that Aristarchus of Samothrace (220–143 bc) used an asterisk symbol when editing Homer in the second century bc,
because later scholars wrote about him doing so. Physical examples of
Aristarchus’ asterisks have not survived, so we cannot know their
physical shape, but as the word asterisk derives from the Greek asteriskos,
meaning “little star,” an assumption has been made that they resembled a
small star. Aristarchus used the symbols to mark places in Homer’s text
that he was copying where he thought passages were from another source". Claire Cock-Starkey, Lapham's
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