The origin of the (bizarre) names of Roman roads

The last book of Willy Pocino is absolutely amusing, curious and fascinating.
As a writer, editor and lover of the roman culture in its various aspects, Pocino investigates hundreds of street names, of yesterday and today, that seem the product of the imagination of a joker, and instead actually exist or have existed. 
He analyzes each of them, explaining etimology, stories, customs and legends that haven given rise to an odonomy, the Roman one, which never ceases to amaze.




Among the many streets, all listed in alphabetical order, are, for example, Via Affogalasino (DrowningDonkey Street) and via delle Galline Bianche (White Hens Street), but also Via Mejo De Gnente (Better Than Nothing Street) and via delle Zoccolette (Little clogs or Little Prostitutes Street), that takes origin from the orphan girls housed in the conservatory of St.Clement and Creswel, and refers either to the shoes they wore or to their most likely future profession.
The well-known Piazza del Popolo, which is popularly thought referring to the "folk" (popolo, in italian), was named instead after the grove of poplars (in latin: populus) that grew there.

 The "Dictionary of the curious streets of Rome" is definitely an interesting guide to better know the eternal city.