Italia

Corzato

Fields and farmsteads at the edge of the Italian mountains

Origin

From corza — the deer of the wooded edge.

Corzato is an Italian surname. The older word corza names the roe deer: slight, watchful, at home on the margin of field and forest.

The family takes its bearing from Italia: woods, stone, and a working town under the ridges — the ground the name still answers to.

A roe deer standing still at the edge of woodland at dawn
Weathered stone doorway of an old Italian country house

The table

In Italy the table is the room that matters. Bread, wine, and whoever made it home that night — that is how a family stays a family.

Belonging

Wherever the house now stands, the name still answers to its first country.

An Italian table set with bread, wine, cheese, and a warm pot of food

La tavola

The meal is the gathering.

Polenta, bread, a piece of cheese from the hills, a bottle opened without ceremony. Italian life is practiced at the table — not as performance, but as the ordinary way people sit down together and remain.