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

178 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound - printed 2001
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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.

226 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2018
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POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS
IN THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE
In appendix, the catalogue of postmarks

The catalogue, published in a simplified form for an easy reading of the complexity of postmarks, is introduced by an examination about the history of Post in the Republic of Venice, with the purpose of clarifying the complex Venetian postal structure, so much original and important in the European postal development, being Venice one of the most important junctions for the postal connections of Europe.

The work runs through the following path:
From the " cursus publicus" to Medieval couriers, the Venetian trade activity and the transport of messages, transit ways in the Middle Ages, the decree of 6 January 1305, mounted couriers in the Republic of Venice, The Venetian Courier Company, the external postal jus, the Rome travel, the Otranto way, the connection with the island of Malta, the long journey to France, the Milan travel, the courier of Zurich, the agreement with the Fischers of Bern, courier mail in Ferrara, Bologna, Modena and Florence, foreign Post in Venice, mail in Vienna and mail in Poland, mail from Flanders to Brussels, the internal postal jus, the "polizze d'incanto" (policies on contract) of 1747-58, mounted couriers of the Republic of Venice and the rooms of Riva de l'Ogio in Rialto, the general tender of 1761, Girolamo Corticelli, Venetian coins, overseas mail, the fee of 1 soldo per letter and of 3 soldi per ounce, the introduction of postmarks, Post at the fall of the Republic of Venice, catalogue.