Need help with a profession

Cathy · V.I.P. Joined: Jul 10, 2007 Posts: 2681

I have found several people with this profession but I am not positive on it's translation. It may be local dialect, I am not sure. It appears to be spelled CALZOLASO. The Z may be a S. The closest I can come up with is
Calzolaio which is a shoemaker or cobbler. Do you think they are the same? I want to be accurate.
Thanks.

goganga · Dev Joined: Jul 11, 2007 Posts: 226 Location: North Italy

Yes, they are the same, because it doesn't exist another word like that.

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Carole · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject: Re: Need help with a profession

Yes it is almost certainly a shoemaker/cobbler. The word was probably written with the Italian 'i lungha' (long 'i') which is the equivalent of our 'j' and does often look like a long hand 'y' OR 'z'!

A good example is
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in a letter from Casanova - look at his "s's" - everyone could be a 'j' or a 'z'!

Cathy · V.I.P. Joined: Jul 10, 2007 Posts: 2681

Thank you so much! Very Happy

Balboa · New Member Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Posts: 12

Cathy wrote:

I have found several people with this profession but I am not positive on it's translation. It may be local dialect, I am not sure. It appears to be spelled CALZOLASO. The Z may be a S. The closest I can come up with is
Calzolaio which is a shoemaker or cobbler. Do you think they are the same? I want to be accurate.
Thanks.

the correct word is "calzolaio" and it mean shoemaker/ shoe repairer.

ciao ciao

nuccia · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: Need help with a profession

Hi Balboa..

Its so nice to have you here! We haven't spoken in so long and I'm so happy to hear from you again.

I know you're going to like it here! kiss