Calle de le Eremite seen from the Fondamenta della Toletta: the sotoportego (covered passageway) and, further on, the red house with the window of the carved sill Photo: Abxbay, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
On the sill of a ground-floor window, in a house with red plaster, someone centuries ago carved a question in Latin. The capital letters, worn by the salty air, are hard to read: SI DEVS E PRO NOBIS QVIS CONTRA… and there the sentence breaks off, eaten away by plaster and time. Above that E is a horizontal stroke, a little abbreviation mark that stands for ’est’.
