Scaleter — plate 17
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.
Text
Privilegio concesso alla Nazion Xe dei Grisoni el vender buzzolai, E aver botteghe in qual se sia canton.
Translation
Privilege conceded by the nation Is of the Grisoni to sell bussolai And to have shop on any corner whatsoever.
Notes
A scaletér is a donut vendor — donuts in the sense of round cookies with a hole in the middle.
The Grisoni was a noble family of Venice.
The buzzolai or bussolai are the cookies that one can still buy, which originated from the island of Burano in the northern lagoon.
See Boerio (1829), entries BUZZOLA and SCALETÈR.
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Bibliography
Boerio, Giuseppe. Dizionario del dialetto veneziano. Venezia : coi tipi di Andrea Santini e figlio, 1829.
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.
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