Savoy Cabbage and Cannellini Bean Soup

My native Cesenatico, in Romagna, is a fishing town and in the summer months a crowded beach resort, but pressing at the opposite edge of town from the beach, there is farm country, broad and luxuriant. My father had land there all his life where he kept some cows and grew wheat, sugar beets, and excellent sangiovese red grapes that were highly sought after by local wine producers.

Every morning, black-kerchiefed women come into town from the farms with fresh vegetables and f