Cafone and Contadino

[JOHN08]

What is the difference (is there a difference?) between a cafone, a peasant, and a contadino, a peasant farmer? The research I have found does not clearly define the the difference between these terms.

The region of my ancestors is Abruzzo.

Thanks for any clarification.

John

[suanj]

contadino=peasant
cafone=pesant (also)
but normally the "contadino" was a man that working in own farm or working in a farm of another owner;
instead the "cafone" was a peasant (as contadino) but the word meaning a peasant of a very, more humble condition, illiterate...

the word origin is: "ca' fune" ( with rope) for to say a people that used the rope for the pants instead of to use the belt.
suanj