FROM BERGAMO TO EUROPE
HISTORIC ROUTES MERCATORUM AND PRIULA

The most important aspects of the main historic routes in Valle Brembana and in particular Via Mercatorum and Strada Priula; their centennial role as a communication way between Bergamo and the area beyond the Alps, and as a connection between the small communities in the Valley; the historical, social, cultural background in which they operated.
Many tables with the spots important for their history, architecture and art; many photographs and reproductions of documents.

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.

DISINFECTION IN HISTORY
ILLUSTRATED THROUGH POSTAL DOCUMENTS

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held in Trieste (Italy), it describes how men faced epidemics and which were the measures undertaken, during the centuries.

CONTRADA BRETTO
IN CAMERATA CORNELLO
AND TASSO FAMILY IN EUROPE

The present study analyses the evolution of Tasso family who organised and ran European postal communications for centuries. A specific attention has been given to the role of the family for postal communications in the area of Bergamo and in Veneto and to their relationship with the poets Bernardo and Torquato Tasso.
The specific investigation about the quarter Bretto takes into consideration environmental and architectural aspects, its history, the small church of San Ludovico from an architectural and artistic point of view including the religious meaning of its frescos, other important European Tasso sites.

THE FAMILY TASSO DEL BRETTO
The Documents of the Family Tasso of the Institute Holy Family of Comonte

The ex town-house Tasso of Comonte, now seat of the Institute of Holy Family Sisters, belonged up to 1828 to the family Tasso, said "del Bretto" from the name of the place, near Cornello of Tasso in Brembana Valley, where the first members had settled during the XIV century.
In the archives of the Institute there are hundreds of documents relevant to the Tasso del Bretto and other important members of the family. Thanks to these documents, it has been possible to draw a detailed picture of the history of this branch, covering about six centuries, from the first division of the family, to the death of its last member, the countess Maria Teresa Tasso, in the XIX century.

MARIEGOLA OF THE FORWARDER COMPANY OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC

Mariegola was the statute of rights and duties of members of charity associations or guilds. It included the original first chapters and deliberations, decrees and proclamations, added during the following years.
The Venetian forwarder company, which had become a real craft guild during the XV century with its structural and operational organization, established its own Mariegola. Five different redactions are known, all of them kept in Venice, three by the State Archives and two by the Library of Correr Museum.

TASSO FAMILY
AND PAPAL STATE POST
C. XV-XVI

The present work collects a wide register of the documents relevant to the subject, most of them never published before, and traces an analytical picture of events and people who served popes such as Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Julius II, Leo X and Clement VII, during a historical period which was really important for the history of the Church and of the whole Europe.