How wonderful that, in Italian, the etymology of the word for door, porta, comes from the verb to bring, portare, which also means to raise, sollevare, “because Romulus, in mapping out the walls of the city with a plow, raised them in the very place where the gates [porte] would be constructed.”2 Although a door remains something inanimate and concrete, the word’s root conveys a decisive and dynamic act.
