Carricolo
Also known as: Carricolo
Culture · Transport
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The carricolo was the light two-wheeled, one-horse cart of Naples, proverbial for the number of passengers piled on to it (the project's reader footnote at 070.0211: «a Neapolitan two-wheeled cart, famously overloaded»).References in Diary
- 1877-04-07, Naples (070.0211): with the Fabbricatore girls in the carriage and the gentlemen climbing on, «nous avons l'air d'un Carricolo; il y avait du monde partout, sur les roues, presque sur les chevaux».
- 1877-04-29 (071.0037): «— En carricolo !», in the dialogue of friends arriving from Naples.
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