OSTERIA: WHAT IT IS THAT?

An Osteria (Italian pronunciation: [oste'ria]) is an Italian-style eating establishment where the emphasis is generally placed on maintaining a steady clientele rather than on haute cuisine Osteria in Italian literally means a place where the owner "hosts" people   Food is generally regional and prepared with local recipes, and often served at shared tables.

The term comes from tavern 'host', the ancient French host, hostess, which in turn derives from the Latin hospita (m). One of the earliest evidence of the term is found in Chapter hostaria the judiciary of "Signori della Notte", which as the name suggests, on the quiet night watching the Venice of the thirteenth century. The etymology of the name refers to the current function of the place which is that of hospitality.
Similar to the local taverns existed in ancient Rome called enopolium, while in thermopolium it also served food and hot drinks, kept at room temperature in large clay pots recessed into the counter: well-preserved examples are on display at the ruins of ancient Pompeii.
The inns were built as places to eat, places of transit or those that trade in this case are no roads, intersections, squares and markets. Soon they became meeting places and meeting places, social relations. The buildings, often poor and humble, assumed significance as to the place where life arose and there was nourished. The wine was the inevitable element around which all others are optional revolved: the food and the bedrooms.
The inn was, until mid-1900, a typical evening meeting place of the popular male people, place of meeting and socializing has been for a long time, one of the few opportunities to meet and exchange ideas, Adding to the Church and the square. Since after the war to date attendance at these venues is coming less and less in recent years, however, has seen a revival of such areas that are recovering their function as a meeting place and for the dissemination of regional cuisine and local Italian.
In Ferrara, next to the Duomo, there is what is documented (since 1435) as the oldest inn of the Renaissance, and perhaps the world.

THE MOST ANCIENT OSTERIA IN ITALY

Already in 1400 there was the Hostaria del Chiucchiolino and avoiding or leaving the church door, we slipped into the adjacent lane (now street Adelardi 11) to taste good wine on board a boat, the inn was - in fact - in a small bay formed by rainwater.
It is said that many famous guests have visited this place.
Among them, the sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, the poets Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus who lived and studied just above the inn.
In 1973, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Primate of Poland, Karol Wojtyla, who accompanied him, were in Ferrara on the occasion of the fifth centenary of the birth of the astronomer and to visit the home of the illustrious compatriot, had to cross the interior of 'inn "Albrindisi" as the inn is now called the world's oldest (still active).

Who is the God BACCO (Bacchus)?    
He was the Roman god of agriculture and wine, similar to the Greek Dionysus.