Scoazze – Scoazzer – Scoazzera
Scoazze means rubbish. Scoazzer is a rubbish collector, and scoazzera a rubbish dump — see [Differentiated rubbish collection in Venice]differentiated-rubbish-collection-in-venice).
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Scuazzero — Rubbish collector — Grevembroch 3-129
“Scuazzero” (Rubbish collector) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
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Veduta del Campo de’ Giesuiti — Il Gran Teatro di Venezia — plate 35
“Veduta del Campo de’ Giesuiti” from the “Gran Teatro di Venezia”, published by Domenico Lovisa, c. 1717.
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Scoazer — rubbish collector — Zompini — Arti #4
“Scoazer” (rubbish collector) from “Arti che vanno per via” (1785) by Getano Zompini, translated by René Seindal.
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Differentiated rubbish collection in Venice
Venice had an organised system of differentiated garbage collections from the 1400s, to keep the city clean and the canals open.