cantiniera

Updated: July 14, 2025

"In the first place, I am of a thirsty family. My father kept a wine-shop and my mother was a cantiniera, and both drank as much as they sold. I inherited an unfortunate addiction to the wine-skin, which upon several occasions has brought me into trouble and the black-hole.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846