464 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2015
Italian and English text

THE TASSO FAMILY
MASTERS OF THE IMPERIAL MAIL IN VENICE
History of a family from Bergamo from 1500 to the end of 1700

Four are the Tasso brothers who, at the beginning of 1500, give a start to the managing of Tasso's mail in Europe, allowing an exchange of news and culture further to the one of goods and money.
This volume recreates Davide Tasso's branch between Cornello and Venice, with all his descendants, up to the end of the Venetian Republic: an important element for the promotion of the Lineage and for the knowledge of our past.

Francesco Tasso had succeeded in obtaining written agreements for himself and for all Tasso descendants regarding the postal services that the Tasso family carried out on behalf of the House of Hapsburg. The great revolution in written communication was so originated in Europe, at the beginning of 1500, with well-defined routes of connection between the most important towns, stations of mail and of stages every 20/25 kilometres, certain times and prearranged economic payments.
The invention of postage stamps, other important social revolution, saw the Tasso family participate actively with the print of 52 postage stamps for their own mail lines, like the other States, 1850 to 1867, year when the deeds of Tasso generations in Europe came to an end.