Quinto Remmio Palemone forgotten character of the Vicenza city. A street in the San Pio X district of Vicenza was dedicated to an unknown character from ancient imperial Rome. A slave from an educated family, who lived in Vicenza with a wealthy family, in need of a person who would best educate their offspring. He was born in Vicenza in the year 5 AD, therefore a contemporary of Jesus. "Many stamps of the gens Remmia QUINTUS REMMIO were found on Campus Marzius" wrote Giovanni da Schio, because perhaps he had become the owner of a brick factory of his masters who had him as son? But his parents Scrunilo and Coxa where did they come from?
Known to scholars with the anecdotes that Gaius Suetonius Tranquillo dedicated to him within the De Grammaticus rhetoribus, that is, the grammar of rhetoric, which at that time was bread for politicians and lawyers. He described it in many details, where the great success that the former freed slave, then became a freedman, obtained as a Grammaticus under Nero. He became an authority in grammar studies, so much so that he was magister of Persio and of the young Spaniard Marco Fabio Quintiliano. He introduced the new imperial Latin, with the alphabet of 23 letters, 5 vowels, 7 mute semivowels + the Greek Y and Z; - the division into 4 orders of declensions is ascribed to him, based on the vowel of the 2nd person singular; - he introduced readings and comments on the works of the writer and poet Publio Virgilio Marone, who was from Mantua and whom he surely knew; this happened during the initial good reign of Nero with Seneca, who then bought his large agricultural estate on the Nomentana. So maybe he went back to his Vicenza and left his bones here at the age of 60? Gianni Padrin
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