Furbesco
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Furbesco[1] or Furbesco jargon or zerga is the jargon formerly used by the organized crime in Italy. Created in order to make communications between the members of the underworld difficult to understand, its presence, albeit with territorial and linguistic diversifications, is documented in France and Italy from the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century, when its decline began and its progressive extinction.
The word "furbo (smart)", to which the name of this jargon refers, in the ancient slang and usage had a different meaning from that passed in the current language and was valid as "colui che forbisce", that is, cleans the pockets of others (and therefore "thief ").
The Furbesco is not just a cryptic or parasitic language: there is a whole literature in cunning, born in the middle of the Renaissance, and still mostly little known as mostly unpublished.
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- Antonio Brocardo, Modo novo da intender la lingua zerga, cioè parlar furbesco Venezia, 1545
- Bernardino Biondelli, Studii sulle lingue furbesche, 1846 ([1])
- G.I.Ascoli, Studj critici, pag. 418, 1861 ([2])
- Severino Santiapichi il gergo furbesco della mala: un "dizionario storico" delle parlate italiane molto utili ai magistrati sul Corriere della Sera del 15.01.1992
- Antonello Fabio Caterino, La mimesi letteraria della lingua dei furfanti: il furbesco rinascimentale, in Eretici, dissidenti, inquisitori. Per un dizionario storico mediterraneo. Volume 2, Roma, Aracne, 2018
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