Nel blog Centomila Frasi è riportato un interessante aneddoto riguardante Giosuè Carducci, che riporto integralmente:
Un giorno si presentò a Giosuè Carducci, quando era professore a Bologna, uno studente, pregandolo di volergli firmare il libretto di frequenza. «Come si chiama lei?», gli domandò il Poeta. E quello, timidamente, rispose (poniamo) Rossi Giovanni, dicendo prima il cognome e poi il nome. Bruscamente, quasi sgarbatamente, il Carducci gli restituì the book without even opening it, saying, "Please: I'll let the signing when he learned to say his name correctly," Falling from the clouds, the student looked the professor quizzically. And the Carducci, sharper than ever: "For his rule, he always says and writes the name before the surname. The exception is permitted only when necessary literacy, "and the book was not signed.
If more teachers to behave in this way, instead of - their first - and introduce students to call their name and surname, as we often hear, the school would be a place a little better ... The need
PS alphabetical order could have an effect at the time of Carducci, when there were no computers. Today you can get a list sorted by surname also submitting the names of first names.
