Vilco ha scritto:

> I checked around the term Polesine: it is used to indicate an island on the
> river Po which has became attached, with time, to one of the banks. The
> Valpolicella area doesn't seem to be of that origin. Moreover, the
> explanation of Valpolicella name coming from a "great bend in the Adige
> river" seems wrong to me both for the river (Adige is not Po) and for the
> translation of Polesine into "great bend of a river".

Vil, what about the word "Marani" that is in the same time tha name of
a Lambrusco grape and the Georgian word for Cellar? May be a ancient
origin from Caucasian land of the Padanian people?

;-)

Luk