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Cod. 2133E
EUR 40,00


Giorgio Migliavacca - Tarcisio Bottani
SIMONE TASSO
e le poste di Milano nel Rinascimento
SIMON TAXIS
and the Posts of the State of Milan during the Renaissance

240 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2008
Italian and English text

SIMON TAXIS
and the Posts of the State of Milan during the Renaissance

Simone Tasso (Cornello, Bergamo, 1478 - Milan, 1562) belongs to the same family of Torquato Tasso, the poet of "Jerusalem Delivered", and of the princes Thurn und Taxis, and is one of the main exponent of the branch who organized a fixed and efficient postal service in Europe between the end of the XV and the first decades of the XVI century.

The present book is the result of new, in-depth research carried out by the co-authors in archives in Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany and Austria over a span of three decades. With its array of detail on rates and routes and relationships, it brings to life the colourful, challenging world of the Taxis postal couriers in the XVI century.

CONTENTS

* Foreword
* Introduction

* The Taxis Family, from Cornello to Europe
* Simon Taxis and the Milanese Posts
* Simon Taxis's Will
* Simon Taxis's Family tree
* The Taxis Family and the feud of Paullo
* Simon Taxis and his brothers in the documents kept in the archives of Bergamo

* Appendix: documents centred on the Posts of Simon Taxis
* Bibliography
* Archives
* Alphabetical index of names

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