Veri rotti — street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass — Zompini — Arti #51
Veri rotti — plate 51
The Arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia (1753, 1770, 1785, etc.), by Gaetano Zompini (1700–1778), contains sixty engravings of common, mostly poor people, peddling their trades on the streets of Venice in the mid-1700s.
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 51 – Veri rotti – street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glassGaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 51 – Veri rotti – street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass – coloured
Text
Mi porto da Muran, e tazze, e goti
Bozze, impolete e veri d’ogni sorte
E togo anca in barato i veri roti.
Translation
I bring from Murano, both cups and beakers Measures, ampoules and glass of every kind And I also take in exchange broken glass.
Notes
A goto is a wine glass or a beaker. A bozza is a glass vase for wine, with a round belly and a narrow neck.
The verb tor, first person sing. togo, means to take or pick up, while in barato means to barter.
See Boerio (1829), entries GOTO, BOZZA, TOR and BARATO.
All images
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 51 – Veri rotti – street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass (51) – studyGaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 51 – Veri rotti – street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass – colouredGaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 51 – Veri rotti – street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass
Boerio, Giuseppe. Dizionario del dialetto veneziano. Venezia : coi tipi di Andrea Santini e figlio, 1829. [more] 🔗
Zompini, Gaetano. Le arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia inventate ed incise da Gaetano Zompini, Aggiuntavi una memoria di detto autore. Venezia, 1785. [more] 🔗
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