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Cod. 2595E
EUR 30,00


Italo Robetti & Achille Vanara
LA COMUNICAZIONE EPISTOLARE DA E PER TORINO
VOL.III - CARLO EMANUELE III ED IL NUOVO REGOLAMENTO PER LE POSTE DEL 1772 (1730-1773)

342 pp. - almost 500 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2016
Italian text

THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
vol.III CARLO EMANUELE III AND THE NEW REGULATIONS FOR POST OF 1772 (1730-1773)

This third volume follows the long kingdom of Carlo Emanuele III, from 1730 to 1773.

Like in the two previous volumes, the authors continue the chronological path, identified with the political or postal events that have particularly characterised it (the coexistence of Vittorio Amedeo II and Carlo Emanuele III, the wars of succession, Polish first and Austrian then, the period of peace, the changes in rates and the important postal regulations of 1772).

Moreover they focus their attention on some specific subjects of essentially postal nature, trying to give exhaustive answers to some doubtful interpretations of the past (the relationships between the Post in Turin and the French couriers, hoping to definitively prove the nonexistence of a French office in Turin), that is evidencing particular aspects not always taken into the right consideration (The Country Offices of military from 1733 to 1748, the start up of a Piedmontese Post Office in the town of Rome in 1734, the official introduction of the forwarding of correspondence by sea between Piedmont and the Kingdom of Sardinia).

The work is completed by the interesting controversy arose between the bookseller Fontana and the clerks of the Post Office in Turin with rate-related implications regarding the "gazettes"; the relationships, not always peaceful, between the Piedmontese Post and the Post Office in Milan, with the first introduction of Milanese postmarks; the exemption from postal fee on the letters coming from and on those sent abroad.

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