224 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2020
Italian text

THE POSTAL SYSTEM IN TYROL AND THE VORLANDE AND THE ENIPONTANA LINE OF THE THURN UND TAXIS (1490-1769)

The work is the result of an agreement between the Tasso Museum and the Institute for European History and Ethnology of Innsbruck University, aimed at carrying out research and studies on the Tyrolean branches of the Tasso family.

The Post, which is the subject here, developed from the period between the 16th and 17th centuries into what is the subject of this analysis, that is from a state body into an institution placed at the service of the community: "The transition from feudal fragmentation to the concentration of economy and social life in the capitalist era" would be what made the Post office necessary, at least according to a formulation conceived around 1920. More recent works emphasize aspects such as speed ("engine of modernity"), reliability and convenience, innovation and, last but not least, the informative effect that receiving news regularly had on the literate élite.

The project "Tasso and Europe" has allowed to start research on the various sectors of the entrepreneurial activity of the Tasso carried out in the archives of Innsbruck, Regensburg, Füssen, Brussels, Lille, Besançon, Madrid, Simancas, Milan, Venice, Rome, Trento, Palermo, Mantua and Bergamo and then to print a series of studies dedicated to this complex house of mail masters, arriving to outline a very detailed panorama that sweeps across almost all the areas that were the scene of postal communications organized by the Tasso.

With the publication of this work, the cycle of studies on the Tasso family, promoted in 2012, ends.