1997
Near the departing Legionarii we notice a Senator - above, with wife and dogs while he bids farewell to the commander: we think he is the author of the calendar, is he? Anyway, his name is carved forever in marble, on the arch that dominates the square.
"The future of Rome is on the sea" will say someone a day! What better training for this destiny if not a modern Ventusplani, serial-produced under the Rostral Column of Caius Duilius? Sheets of "Polistirolus" - softened and duly formed over an arcane machine coal-heated and cyclette-propelled - are trimmed and inserted in molds, where a good dose of "Poliuretanus Rigidus" fills them with foam. The resulting shell - "look ma', an enormous ink-fish bone !" - is sturdy and sink-proof. Add a mast and a colored sail and... sic et simpliciter in nęgotium sumus! (et voila, we're in business!).