UNA DEFINIZIONE MEMORABILE DIETRO L’ELENCO DI VETTOVAGLIE DELLA VILLA DEI MVCII SCAEVOLAE?

Abstract

The discovery of a Villa belonged to the Mucii Scaevolae has proved to be of great interest for legal history: the
surviving wall paintings, actually, have allowed the identification of a formula with intentio certa. In the present essay
it is hy-pothesized that, as a tribute to the memory of Quintus Mucius Scaevola, who had distinguished himself in life
for his modesty and who was, among other cultural merits, the author of a famous account of penus, the commissioner
of the painting had wanted to immortalize even a small grocery list, maybe evocative of the defi-nition of a family
food store and surely of the sobriety of a pristina simplicitas.