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 Serendipity Residence B&B can only be compared to the warm bed always waiting for you at your mother's house. We also provide you with indispensable information that will guide you through the most complicated streets of Rome. |
 Here the friendly team of Resdience will do their best to make your stay in Rome the most memorable, delightful and comfortable you've ever had! Strategically located near the centre railway station "Rome Termini", Serendipity Residence B&B allows you to reach very easily the town centre, heart of the Rome, art and culture. |
 History: Serendipi...WHAT? In the Kingdom of Serendip! Once upon a time there was an oriental and exotic Kingdom called Serendip, the memory of which blends with imagination. Our elder tell us that it existed; that it was located in an island that many many years later was called Ceylan, today known as Sri Lanka. The exotic names of cities in that island, places like Trincomalee o Jaffna, can easily make us believe that was the case. Or maybe Serendip was in Persia. I will tell you a particularly curious tale from that old Kingdom. It is the story of the three Princes of Serendip, three priviledged individuals not only gifted by their noble origin but also endowed with a unique talent: the gift of casual discovery. These three characters were able to find answers to questions or misteries they were not in search of. Thanks to their natural sagacity they would solve unexpected dilemmas. This unique ability must have impresed so deeply an anonymous witness that he decided to save it for history in the anonymous story entitled "The Three Princes of Serendip". Many many people read this book for many many years. But when Mr. Horace Walpole read it in the 18th century something changed. Walpole must have also found sublime the gift of the three princes, though quite difficult to describe, and invented to the effect an expresive little word: "serendipity". Letters are a very valuable source of historical information. And the letter that Mr Walpole wrote to Sir Horace Mann on January 28, 1754 is one of those texts that make history. Not history of wars or empires, spies or conspirations, but word history. In that letter Horace Walpole wrote about his recent creation, about the word serendipity and its expressive richness. "..this discovery indeed is almost of that kind which I call serendipity, a very expressive word, which as I have nothing better to tell you, I shall endeavor to explain to you: you will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right--now do you understand serendipity?" The word "serendipity" is found today in English dictionaries- though only in those edited after 1974- and its meaning fits perfectly well the accidental nature of many scientific discoveries, made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the aparently unexplainable. The following are just a few examples of many serendipitous discoveries and inventions. |
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