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SARACENI
The Saraceni therefore was calls the Arabs
to you dettero to every risen of violence: you onslaught and
depredations of ships, incursions long our coasts, massacres and other,
in the sign of a fanatical hatred towards the Christian world and to the
scope also to make booty of the riches amalfita some.
During their incursions they carried
mournings, sconvolgimenti and ruins between the ill-fated assaulted
populations. They depredated the cities and the villages long the coasts
of the Sorrentina Peninsula, destroyed to churches, derubarono treasures,
killed persons of every age and sex, set afire houses and made incetta
of children in order to sell them enslaved. Also the Convent of Cospiti
knew a visit saracena.
Entire families, in order to escape to the slaughters, repaired
themselves to Agerola on the Coastal Amalfitana. In fact many last names
of amalfitana origin are recurrent between the agerolese population:
Naclerio, Apuzzo, Vespoli, Coppola, Casanova, etc Agerola, during the
imperversare of the onslaught saraceni and Turk, divenne earth of
shelter you. What it made honor our ancestors, defined anciently rozzi
mountain, was the acceptance spirit that they reserved the people that
arrived to you upset and starved.
We find news of an hasty escape in the report of escaping sorrentino,
that the fleet of one hundred triremi (...) we caught up with other
profughi Agerola in the mane night of the 13 june 1558 “Ante tertiam
decimam diem mensis Junii (...) ecce classis Turcharum triremium (...)
nos autem terram Agerolae petivimus (...)” “l (in the night of the 13 of
the month of Turkish june (...) then caught up the earth of Agerola here).
Day 27 june, instead, the Saraceni attacked the coast of Amalfi.
::::::::: LANGUAGE ANNOTATION
In the agerolese speech the following terms of Arabic origin are used:
“caruso” from karus, head shaved “maccaturo” from magdar, handkerchief
“tavuto” from tabut, died case from “matarazzo” from matrah, mattress
“carcara” from karkara, stack of firewood “mesalo” from mussalla, table
cloth from table.
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