Facciata Chiesa di Santa Caterina (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)
Church of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria
Facciata Chiesa di Santa Caterina (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)The birth of glasses: 'it is not yet twenty years that the art of making glasses was created. Glasses improve your sight and that is one of the best and most necessary arts that the world has, and it is so new... I met the one who first created it, and spoke to him'. With these words, Fra Giordano da Pisa (or da Rivalto) consecrated the birth of glasses, spreading the news everywhere thanks to his sermons. Who was the one who first created it? It was the Pisan Dominican Alessandro della Spina who, following Seneca's studies, according to which the objects observed through water placed in a glass beaker were enlarged, created a leather structure that held two round lenses together and was tied behind the head. His first experiments were made right inside the convent of Santa Caterina.
