This article aims to reconstruct the history of the rare phrase acqua puttana ‘liquid containing excess water, especially alcohol, coffee or broth’. The phrase, not recorded by Italian dictionaries, occurs for the first time in 1737 in Paolo Rolli’s commentary on a comedy by Ludovico and Gabriele Ariosto; in more recent times it has had some circulation in Corsica, Tuscany and, at least until the twentieth century, in Veneto.
Acqua puttana
Vincenzo D'Angelo
2023-01-01
Abstract
This article aims to reconstruct the history of the rare phrase acqua puttana ‘liquid containing excess water, especially alcohol, coffee or broth’. The phrase, not recorded by Italian dictionaries, occurs for the first time in 1737 in Paolo Rolli’s commentary on a comedy by Ludovico and Gabriele Ariosto; in more recent times it has had some circulation in Corsica, Tuscany and, at least until the twentieth century, in Veneto.
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