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while I imagine the "bancarottaro" is someone who deals with bankrupcy (although I have no idea how...), I am totally in the dark about what a "galanteriaro" would have done for a living.
any ideas on either or both?
mille grazie e buona Pasqua!
I've found just one reference in Internet about "galanteriaro", in an old manuale for learning French, where it is translated as "colporteur", that would be "peddler"
It that's correct, the other word reminds me "bancarellaro", i.e. a "peddler", though it doesn't seem to be written this way in the record.
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thank you both! "peddler" seems likely, given the social extraction of the rest of the family
I wonder if that also explains "bancarottaro"... if such a person was one who goes in places where debts were unpaid and needed to be repaid by trying to sell their belongings, then perhaps he was sort of a "bailiff + saponaro" thrown in together...?
if he collected things from people (due to bankrupcy) and tried to sell them on (peddling) then that would make sense... but perhaps I am jumping to conclusions here.
Is it possible you misread Bancarottaro and it may be bancarellaro. That would resolve the issue. A pedlar would be **SPAM** items from a bancarello (stall).
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