- Bagnio
Bagnios were the slave prisons of
Turkey and theBarbary regencies. In the Barbary prisons, the hostages of the pirates spent their evenings there, leaving during the day to work as laborers,galley slave s, or domestic servants. The term was originally used for a bath or bathing-house ("Italian" bagno, "Spanish" baño" [http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltGUIBusUsual?TIPO_HTML=2&TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=baño#0_10 baño] " in theDiccionario de la Real Academia Española ] ) in Istanbul, near which the prison for hostages was."Bagne" became the French word for the prisons of the galley slaves in the French Navy.The last one in European France (Toulon ) was closed in 1873.The communication between master and slave and between slaves of different origins was made in Lingua Franca (also known as Sabir), a Mediterranean pidgin with Romance and Arabic lexicon.
In England, it was originally used to name
coffee house s which offered Turkish baths, but by 1740 [cite web|url=http://www.nationalgalleryimages.co.uk/imagedetails.aspx?q=HOGARTH%2c+William&mode=artist&start=15&num=12&ng=NG117&title=Marriage+A-la-Mode%3a+4%2c+The+Toilette&artist=William+HOGARTH&q2=NG117
title=Marriage A-la-Mode: 5, The Bagnio|publisher=The National Gallery|date=2006|accessdaymonth=4 June |accessyear=2007 ] it signified a place where rooms could be provided for the night with no questions asked, later ahouse of prostitution .article from Saint Cloud (Minnesota) Journal, Thursday June 24, 1869.]In fiction
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Los tratos de Argel " ("The trades of Algiers", 1580),"Los baños de Argel " ("The Bagnios of Algiers", 1615), "El gallardo español " ("The Gallard Spaniard", 1615) and "La gran sultana " ("The great sultaness", 1615) were four comedies byMiguel de Cervantes about the life of the caitiffs.Cervantes himself had been imprisoned in Algiers (1575-1580). HisDon Quixote also features a subplot with the story of a caitiff (chapters 39-41 of the first part).References
#1728 [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&entity=HistSciTech000900240226&isize=L]
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