capretta

Updated: June 15, 2025

I believe they spoke thus feelingly because they thought I must fall shortly dead upon the ground. I went immediately to inspect the furnace, and found that the metal was all curdled; an accident which we expressed by being "caked." I told two of the hands to cross the road, and fetch from the house of the butcher Capretta a load of young oak- wood, which had lain dry for above a year.

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 : Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists

I went directly to examine the furnace, and saw all the metal in it concreted. I thereupon ordered two of the helpers to step over the way to Capretta, a butcher, for a load of young oak, which had been above a year drying, and been offered me by Maria Ginevra, wife to the said Capretta. Upon his bringing me the first bundles of it, I began to fill the grate.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.