Museum of Glasses Salerno

Even Petrarca could not do without it.

Thus wrote the poet, who lived between 1304 and 1374: "I am not proud of having had a great beauty,but in my youth I could have pleasure: of bright color between white and brown, bright eyes and for a long time of great acuity, that against all expectations betrayed me, past sixty years old, so as to force me to resort reluctantly to the help of the lenses".