Veneto

"Larte de labbacho" is a book printed in Treviso (the city where it is still hosted today) and is considered to be the oldest printed book on mathematics in the world, the edition dating back to December 10, 1478. The recipients were merchants and the text was very practical, designed to be used as a useful book in everyday work. To meet the needs of the target audience, the book (123 pages) was written in the “vulgar” tongue.

One of the most popular Italian words in the world, “ciao”, has Venetian origins: it derives from “s'ciao”, a term used to state “I’m your servant”.

Veneto has given life to thousands and thousands inventions, from the microprocessor (by Federico Faggin in Vicenza) to the piano (by Bartolomeo Cristofori from Padua), the '@' symbol (used by Venetian merchants in the Middle Ages) the “galeazza” (the war galley with cannons on the sides, invented in Venice in the 15th century). Inventions in Veneto were a tradition already protected and rewarded according to a law of the Serenissima Republic dated as far back as March 19, 1474 (Patent Statute).