The Bucintoro: the golden ship
On the origin of the name many pages have been spent, we report here that of Prof. Siega, “Dictionary of the Veneto lexicon etymologically and curiously commented” Finegil editorial, which seems to us the most accredited; the name would derive from Buzon, Bonzonus which stood for navis; Buzon d’oro or golden ship from here became the Bucintoro….