Genoa, a plaque to remember the piers financed by prostitutes – Primocanale.it
The expert Marco Pepè: “It is part of the history of the Republic of Genoa”
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Of Michele Varì
GENOA – “The prostitutes between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries paid 5 soldi a day for the profession in the Republic of Genoa. That money was then used for public works, including the construction of the docks of the port … “.
Speaking is Marco Pepè, an expert in popular traditions and a great connoisseur of the even occult history of Genoawhich reveals: “In memory of this the Central East Municipality voted to affix a plaque evoking the role of prostitutes in the Sottoripa areaa story from which the famous saying in Genoese originates “a l’è cheito ‘na bagascia in maa… “, that is” a whore fell into the sea “…”, also quoted in the song “in Dumenega” by Fabrizio De Andrè “
Prostitutes could not practice their trade outside the brothel, which was where Via Garibaldi is now, and above all he could not do it along the piers to prevent them from luring the sailors – continues Pepè – but as it would have been embarrassing to punish them for frequenting places built for their contribution, they had been denied access to the piers. For this reason it was almost impossible that on their only day of celebration, just as De Andrè sings, on Sunday, they could fall into the sea. Hence the saying “a l’è cheito ‘na bagascia in maa …”.
between the 15th and 16th centuries
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