Bagnio

Bagnio

Bagnios were the slave prisons of Turkey and the Barbary regencies. In the Barbary prisons, the hostages of the pirates spent their evenings there, leaving during the day to work as laborers, galley slaves, 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 the Diccionario 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 houses 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 a house of prostitution.article from Saint Cloud (Minnesota) Journal, Thursday June 24, 1869.]

In fiction

"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 by Miguel de Cervantes about the life of the caitiffs.Cervantes himself had been imprisoned in Algiers (1575-1580). His Don 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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  • Bagnio — Bagn io, n. [It. bagno, fr. L. balneum. Cf. {Bain}.] 1. A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bagnio — [ban′yō, bän′yō] n. pl. bagnios [It bagno < L balneum, bathing place: see BALNEOLOGY] 1. Obs. a Turkish or Italian bathhouse 2. Obs. in the Near East and N Africa, a prison 3. a house of prostitution; brothel …   English World dictionary

  • bagnio — noun (plural bagnios) Etymology: Italian bagno, literally, public baths (from the Turks use of Roman baths at Constantinople as prisons), from Latin balneum, from Greek balaneion Date: 1599 1. obsolete prison 2. bordello …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • bagnio — /ban yoh, bahn /, n., pl. bagnios. 1. a brothel. 2. (esp. in Italy or Turkey) a bath or bathing house. 3. Archaic. a prison for slaves, esp. in the Orient. [1590 1600; < It bagno < L balneum, balineum < Gk balaneîon bathroom, bath] * * * …   Universalium

  • bagnio — noun brothel …   Wiktionary

  • bagnio — n. public bathhouse; brothel; prison for slaves …   English contemporary dictionary

  • bagnio — [ bα:njəʊ, banjəʊ] noun (plural bagnios) 1》 archaic a brothel. 2》 historical (in the Far East) a prison. Origin C16: from Ital. bagno, from L. balneum bath …   English new terms dictionary

  • bagnio — n. 1. Bath, bathing house. 2. Brothel, stew, bawdy house, house of prostitution, house of ill fame …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • bagnio — n 1. brothel, bordello, Archaic. bordel, Obs. stew, lupanar, Obs. kip, nunnery; house of ill repute, house of ill fame, house of prostitution, bawdyhouse, whorehouse, Inf. sporting house, Inf. call house; All Sl. call joint, pick up joint, parlor …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • bagnio — ba·gnio …   English syllables

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