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Cod. 2868E
EUR 20,00


Renata Carissoni - Raffaella Gerola - Bonaventura Foppolo - Tarcisio Bottani
I PAAR DI PARRE
Protagonisti delle Poste in Europa con i Tasso del Cornello (XVI-XIX sec.)

256 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2023
Italian text

THE PAARS FROM PARRE
Protagonists of the Post in Europe with the Tassos from Cornello (16th-19th centuries)

This publication provides a first general picture, quite detailed and reliable, of the events of the Paar family over the course of four centuries, also contributing to making known an important aspect of Parre's history in the context of European events.

The first part takes into consideration the origins of the family and the documents from the mid-fifteenth century relating to the events of the Belleboni merchants, who later, far from their homeland, will be identified with the name of their town of origin. This section outlines in particular the figures of Mondino and his sons who occupied an important role in the economic, social and administrative life of Parre.
It was Mondino and his sons who, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, passed into the service of the Habsburgs, initially relying on the activity of the Tasso family, already present for a few decades in the territories of the Empire.

The second part of the volume is instead dedicated to the birth and development of the Paar's entrepreneurial activity in the postal sector; following the stages of the family's rise and outlining the figures of the protagonists, committed to organizing the postal service in a widespread manner in the areas assigned to them, extending and diversifying their skills and acquiring profits, privileges and noble titles at the same time.

The third and final part of the volume is dedicated to the age-old controversy that pitted the Paar against the Thurn und Taxis regarding the identification of the territories of respective competence in the management of the Empire's Post. A dispute that lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century until almost the end of the eighteenth century between mutual complaints, appeals, mediations, imperial pronouncements and attempts at agreement which essentially did not lead to a definitive settlement of the issue.

The volume is completed by a substantial iconographic set and the detailed genealogy of the family.
CONTENTS

PARTE PRIMA
DAI BELLEBONI PARRESCHI AI DA PAR
ORIGINI E ASCESA DI UNA FAMIGLIA
di Renata Carissoni e Raffaella Gerola
* Premessa
* Introduzione
1. Le prime tracce. Grato e i suoi figli
2. Mondino da Parre
3. I figli di Mondino
4. Pietro da Parre, ovvero: la congiura del silenzio
5. I conti tornano

PARTE SECONDA
I PAAR
DA PARRE AI REGNI EREDITARI AUSTRIACI
di Bonaventura Foppolo
1. Mondino e i suoi figli, liberi baroni dell'Impero al servizio di Carlo V (1531)
* Il quadro genealogico delle origini
2. I primi Paar in attività nel sistema postale imperiale
* Martin, Moritz e Peter in Ungheria (1526-1540)
* Moritz de Clerici von Paar direttore della posta di Linz (1529-1562)
* Joseph von Paar direttore della posta di Augusta (1559-1562)
3. I Paar direttori della posta di Pressburg
* Peter (1542-1582/83), Martin (1542-1552) e Mundinus (1569)
* Decreto di Ferdinando I di conferma dei titoli e miglioramento dello stemma di famiglia (1559)
* Decreto di Massimiliano II che nomina Peter von Paar «cavaliere dell'Impero e delle Terre ereditarie» (1574)
* Hanns von Paar (1582/83-1596)
* Pompeius von Paar (1596-1613)
4. Johann Baptist von Paar capostipite della linea di Graz (1568-1600)
* Assegnazione ereditaria del feudo postale (11 dicembre 1596)
5. Johann Baptist fondatore della «Posta di Vienna» a Venezia
* Coinvolgimento di Vienna e Venezia per l'istituzione di stazioni postali fisse (1583)
* La messa a punto del corso postale da Vienna a Venezia nel 1587
6. Da Hanns Friedrich von Paar (1600 - 1613) al fratello Hanns Christoph (1613-1637)
* Assegnazione del feudo postale su tutte le Terre ereditarie asburgiche (1624)
* Inizio dell'annosa contesa con i Taxis di Bruxelles (1636)
7. La gestione delle Poste austriache da Rudolph (1637-1638) a Ferdinand von Paar (1638-1644)
8. Il barone, poi conte, Karl Franz von Paar (1644-1673)
* Investitura feudale di Karl Franz da parte della Corte imperiale (1656)
* Il «Regolamento postale generale» di Leopoldo I (1662)
* Affrancatura delle lettere e problema delle esenzioni
* I profitti realizzati da Karl Franz e i suoi rapporti con l'imperatore
9. La «Posta di Vienna» a Venezia dal XVII secolo al suo tramonto nel XIX
* Le vicende della «Posta di Vienna» fino al compromesso del 1652
* Dalla seconda metà del XVII secolo agli inizi del XVIII
* L'ultimo secolo della «Posta di Vienna» a Venezia
10. Karl Joseph von Paar a capo delle Poste della Corte imperiale per 50 anni (1675-1725)
* Il sistema postale ungherese ritorna sotto la gestione dei Paar (1690)
* Il nuovo regolamento postale del 1695
* Il regolamento di Karl Joseph von Paar del 1699: la materia postale è da considerarsi «Cosa Santa»
* Vicende della direzione postale di Karl Joseph tra la fine del XVII secolo e l'inizio del XVIII
* Aspetti personali e famigliari
11. Incameramento della Posta (prima transazione): 1722
* I regolamenti postali di Carlo VI (1722)
12. Da Johann Adam von Paar (1725-1737) al fratello Johann Leopold (1737-1741)
* Il conte Johann Adam
* Il conte Johann Leopold
13. Johann Wenzel, conte poi principe von Paar (1741-1792), e la seconda nazionalizzazione della Posta (1743)
* I nuovi regolamenti postali di Maria Teresa (1748)
* Difesa degli interessi e del prestigio della casa Paar
* Elevazione alla dignità di principe nel 1769
* Conclusione della vicenda istituzionale e umana del principe Johann Wenzel
14. Wenzel Chrisostomus secondo principe von Paar (1792-1812)
* La funzione di Wenzel Chrisostomus durante l'occupazione napoleonica di Vienna (maggio-ottobre 1809)
15. Carl Joseph terzo principe von Paar (1812-1819) e la definitiva nazionalizzazione delle Poste (1813)
* La sua prestigiosa carriera militare
* La gestione delle Poste e la «terza transazione» (1813)
* La famiglia del principe Carl Joseph
16. Dal quarto principe Carl Wenzel Paar agli altri titolari del feudo postale fino a oggi
* Gli ultimi Paar e il loro rapporto con la terra di origine
17. Le proprietà della famiglia Paar nel corso del tempo
* Il castello di Hartberg
* Il Paarpalais di Vienna
* Il castello di Bechyne
* Il Palác Plat"z di Praga
* La Scuola di equitazione di Joseph Ignaz Paar a Vienna
* Proprietà minori

PARTE TERZA
TAXIS CONTRA PAAR
DUE FAMIGLIE ANTAGONISTE
di Tarcisio Bottani
1. L'ascesa dei Paar e dei Taxis all'inizio del XVII secolo
2. Il dualismo Taxis - Paar nella gestione delle Poste imperiali
3. L'accordo di Magonza del 12 febbraio 1666
4. Controversie e accordi occasionali nel XVIII secolo

APPENDICE
* Genealogia della famiglia Von Paar
* Bibliografia
Cod. 2833E
EUR 25,00


Júlia Benavent - Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi
LA CORRISPONDENZA DELLA FAMIGLIA TASSO
CON ANTOINE PERRENOT DE GRANVELLE
Quaderni di Storia Postale n.36, 2023

192 pp. - softbound - printed 2023
series "Quaderni di Storia Postale" - Istituto di Studi Storici Postali, Prato
Italian text with summaries and philological notes in Spanish

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE TASSO FAMILY WITH ANTOINE PERRENOT DE GRANVELLE
Postal History Notebooks n.36, 2023

Critical presentation of 158 letters, all of them transcribed, exchanged between twelve members of the Tasso / de Tassis postal family and Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, a central figure in the service of the Imperial and Spanish monarchy of his time, organizer of information services and profound connoisseur of the mechanisms of imperial administration.

The letters were exchanged between 1541 and 1564, i.e. when the new great European postal revolution had consolidated, above all thanks to the members of the Tasso family: the echoes of this are reflected in the texts, together with the different aspects of the personality of the different actors, their lives and aspirations, as well as the politics, diplomacy, history and culture of the time.

The volume also contains the transcription criteria, the description of the manuscripts, the list of letters published in tables showing the archival signature, the city of departure, the date, the sender and the recipient, the language in which the letter was written.

From the point of view of Italian philology, these letters are of great importance: written by their own hand, the letters of the Tassis constitute a linguistic corpus of great intensity. They are in fact written in an Italian contaminated with other languages by uneducated people, who write with uncertainty, almost phonetically, with a local lexicon and an insecure and fluctuating handwriting.
Given the linguistic singularity, the criteria of this publication are conservative in order to preserve the language of a particular social group.
Cod. 2796E
EUR 15,00


LE POSTE DEI TASSO
Da Cornello all'Europa

244 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2021
Italian text

TASSO FAMILY POST
From Cornello to Europe

The volume intends to make available to readers a manual able to provide a general picture of Tasso history and to give an immediate comparison between descendants and characters, reserving a wider framework to the great Literati Bernardo and his son Torquato.

In the various chapters, events that develop along 500 years are summarized; a synthetic overview of the complex organization of postal networks that effect most of the European countries from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth century, in Germany to the second half of Eighteenth century.

CONTENTS

* Notes on the origins of the Tasso family, by Gabriele Medolago
* The Compagnia dei Corrieri Veneti, a Bergamo company in Venice from 1400 to 1800, by Adriano Cattani and Bonaventura Foppolo
* The family Tasso at the Pope's service and the subsequent development of the family in Bergamo, by Tarcisio Bottani
* The family Tasso del Bretto branch, by Tarcisio Bottani
* The Literati Bernardo and Torquato Tasso in relation with the family and with Bergamo, by Michela Giupponi
* At the Court of the Habsburg Empire: the birth of the European Post, by Tarcisio Bottani
* The Thurn und Taxis Post in Germany from the XVI to the XIX century, by Tarcisio Bottani
* Management of Innsbruck postal lines of the Thurn Valsassina und Taxis Counts. 1504-1769, by Bonaventura Foppolo
* The Tasso family in Spain, by Marco Gerosa
* The Tasso family in the Duchy of Milan, by Marco Gerosa
* From Rome to Mantua. The descendants of Antonio I Tasso, by Marco Gerosa
* The masters of imperial mail in Venice, by Bonaventura Foppolo
* The Taxis Bordogna and the Post in Trento and Bolzano, by Marco Gerosa
Cod. 2762E
EUR 25,00


Erika Kustatscher
IL SISTEMA POSTALE IN TIROLO E NEI VORLANDE E LA LINEA ENIPONTANA DEI THURN UND TAXIS (1490-1769)

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.

CONTENTS

* The beginnings of the postal system and Innsbruck (1490-1564)
* The era of autonomy of the territorial principality (1564-1665)
* The era of the spread of Absolutism (1665-1711)
* Between the Austrian central state and the Holy Roman Empire (1711-1769)
* The superior master of the Innsbruck Post office
* The geographical routes of the postal service in Upper Austria and the Vorlande
* Mail stations and their owners
* Summary
* Sources and literature
Cod. 2745E
EUR 25,00


Marco Gerosa
LA FAMIGLIA TASSO E LE POSTE NELLO STATO DI MILANO
IN ETÀ SPAGNOLA (1556-1650)

216 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2019
Italian text

THE TASSO FAMILY AND POST IN THE STATE OF MILAN DURING THE SPANISH PERIOD (1556-1650)

The book recreates the postal and human adventure of the Tasso family in the State of Milan during the Spanish domination.

The work investigates how the history of the Milanese branch of the Tasso's postal company is intertwined with the political, institutional and social requirements of the Duchy of Milan, of the Spanish Crown and of the Italian and European contexts existing in the 94 years examined.

This is accompanied by the genealogical history of the family. The author reconstructs the biographic history of the family components, with their conflicts and their relationships with institutions and with the territory.
Cod. 2721E
EUR 25,00


Francesca Brunet
"PER ESSERE QUEST'UFFICIO LA CHIAVE DELL'ITALIA E GERMANIA..."
La famiglia Taxis Bordogna e le comunicazioni postali nell'area di Trento e Bolzano (sec. XVI-XVIII)
"Da dieses Amt der Schlüssel für Italien und Deutschland ist...". Die Familie Taxis Bordogna und die Postverbindungen im Raum Trient und Bozen vom 16. bis zum 18 Jahrundert.

256 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2018
Italian and German text

"BEING THIS OFFICE THE KEY BETWEEN ITALY AND GERMANY..."
The Taxis Bordogna family and postal communications in the area of Trento and Bolzano (XVI-XVIII centuries)

The history of Post in Trentino in modern times is part of the much wider overview of European and non-European postal connections that, between centuries XV and XVI, started being set up in a more and more rational and extensive way. Absolute protagonists of the work of organization and of material-economic management of international Post were the various branches of the Taxis family, native of Cornello, in Val Brembana of Bergamo.
One of these branches, the House of Taxis Bordogna, controlled from XVI to XVIII century the postal stations along the course of the Adige river of Trento and Bolzano, with the relevant in-between stations.

This volume is composed of two parts.
The first one, mainly organized in chronological order, is devoted to the history of the family and of the postal fief:
the birth of the Taxis Bordogna branch, the beginning of its administration of Trento Post, the acquisition of new postal stations in the second half of XVI century and the loss of some of them in the subsequent century; the significant managing of the postal enterprise, during the XVII century, by the sole woman that succeeded in getting the investiture as master of post and not simply as subsidiary tutor; up to the XVIII century, dense with changes inside the House and the postal administration.
The second part, organized in a thematic way, where every topic is handled chronologically, has the purpose to recreate the more properly economic and material aspects of the history of Trento Post in modern times.
Cod. 2686E
EUR 25,00


Tarcisio Bottani
FRANCESCO TASSO E LA NASCITA DELLE POSTE D'EUROPA
NEL RINASCIMENTO
FRANCESCO TAXIS AND THE BIRTH OF THE EUROPEAN POSTAL SERVICES IN THE RENAISSANCE

232 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
Italian and English text

Francesco Taxis (Cornello dei Tasso 1459 - Brussels 1517) is considered the ancestor of the family that, between the end of the fifteenth century and the first decades of the sixteenth century started and organized the Post of the Hapsburgs, creating fast and stable connections with the main European towns, activity for which the credit of founding modern Post of Europe is accorded to the Tasso family.

The text, proposed also in English version, is based upon the figure of the ancestor and examines the documents on which Tasso's fortune is built: after the initial reference to the origins of the family from Cornello and the hint to the first postal tasks in Venice and by the papal court, lingers on the start of Tasso's Post in Tyrol, describing the receipts for some payments received by Francesco and by his relatives for postal activities.

The book describes then the beginning of Post in the Flanders, studying the content of the patent letters by Philip the Handsome and Charles I of Spain who bestowed to Francesco Tasso the role of chief and master of the Imperial Post.

The work is closed by a hint to the diffusion of Post in the main European towns after Francesco's death, occurred in 1517, and to the role of his nephews who took his inheritance on to expand it up to transform it into an international enterprise destined to last for centuries.
Cod. 2566E
EUR 40,00


Bonaventura Foppolo
I TASSO
MAESTRI DELLA POSTA IMPERIALE A VENEZIA
Storia di una famiglia bergamasca dal 1500 alla fine del 1700
THE TASSOS, IMPERIAL POSTMASTERS IN VENICE

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.
Cod. 2548E
EUR 18,00


Clemente Fedele - Marco Gerosa - Armando Serra
EUROPA POSTALE
L'OPERA DI OTTAVIO CODOGNO
LUOGOTENENTE DEI TASSO NELLA MILANO SEICENTESCA

288 pp. - b/w ill. - one map included - softbound - printed 2014
Italian and English text

POSTAL EUROPE
THE WORK BY OTTAVIO CODOGNO
LIEUTENANT OF THE TASSO FAMILY IN THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MILAN

After four-hundred years, the celebrated travel and postal guide by Ottavio Cologno is back in a new and masterfully annotated edition.
A first class opportunity to re-discover the communications modalities of early modern Europe. This guide enhances our appreciation of the history of a technique that is often misinterpreted. In simple words, Codogno's book tells us in great detail about a veritable Italian success story, beginning with the original name brand "poste", created in Northern Italy and exported all over the globe.

CONTENTS

* Gianfranco Lazzarini, Introduction
* Mark Brayshay, Preface
* Clemente Fedele, The postal geography of Ottavio Codogno - Posts for different parts of the world by Ottavio Codogno 1608-1623 - Annexed map: Postal Roads in Europe
* Marco Gerosa, For a biography of Ottavio Codogno lieutenant of Posts in Milan and author of postal guides
* Armando Serra, Essay-Itinerary by Codogno especially in 1608, 1616 and 1623, with hints about Before and after Codogno up to the decline of post by horse
Cod. 2433E
EUR 25,00


edited by Tarcisio Bottani
I TASSO E LE POSTE D'EUROPA
1° CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE
CAMERATA CORNELLO 1-3 giugno 2012
THE TASSO FAMILY AND THE EUROPEAN POSTAL SERVICES
1st INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
CAMERATA CORNELLO 1-3 June 2012

328 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2012
Italian and English text

Proceedings of the convention, which opened up opportunities for further investigation and research into the relationships between the Tasso family and Europe.
Presentation by Gian Franco Lazzarini (Mayor of Camerata Cornello) and Introduction by Adriano Cattani (Director of the Tasso Family and Postal History Museum).

* The wills of Ruggero, Janetto and Leonardo Tasso, by Tarcisio Bottani
* The tale of the Venetian branch of the Tasso family from Cornello in Venice, by Bonaventura Foppolo
* The organisation of the Tasso family postal service seen from Venice. Research at the Venice State Archive, by Georgio Plumidis
* Mantua and the Tasso family, by Lorenzo Carra
* What postal service existed in the sixteenth century? by Clemente Fedele
* Important figures of the Milanese Postal Service, from Simone to Ruggero Tasso, by Marco Gerosa
* The Tasso family in the Tyrol: prospects for research, by Fabrizio Dal Vera
* The Taxis Bordogna Family and the Trent Postal Station, by Francesca Brunet
* Tasso documents in Sicily. The birth of the Regia Correrìa of Sicily, by Vincenzo Fardella de Quernfort
* Villa Celadina, descriptive aspects, by Gianni Molinari
* Villa Celadina and the Tassi houses in Bergamo: the early results of a survey, by Gabriele Medolago
* A History of the Mail Service in Bavaria, by Peter Styra
* The Votive Altar of John Baptist de Taxis dated 1540 - a mystery told through images, by Regina Simmerl
* The End of the Thurn und Taxis Mail System in the 19th Century, by Fabian Fiederer
* Tasso family letters in Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España and Real Biblioteca, by Jùlia Benavent
* The Tassis family collections in the Simancas Archive, by Maria Antonia Blat
* Documents on Juan de Tassis in Simancas, by Maria José Bertomeu
* Relays in the State of Milan in the mid-16th century (on direct sources), by Armando Serra
* Tasso documents conserved at the Municipal Library of Besançon, France, by Giulia Grata
* The Thurn und Taxis Postal Administration in the Spanish Netherlands from 1492 to 1713. A postal historical survey, by James Van der Linden
* History of the horse Post through a Postmaster's family archives in Belgian Luxemburg: 1621-1811, by Vincent Schouberechts
Cod. 2832E
EUR 15,00


Tarcisio Bottani - Wanda Taufer
DA BERGAMO ALL'EUROPA
LE VIE STORICHE MERCATORUM E PRIULA

176 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2023
Italian text

FROM BERGAMO TO EUROPE
HISTORIC ROUTES MERCATORUM AND PRIULA

New edition that takes up and updates the publication created in 2007 in the context of an exhibition on the historic routes of the Brembana Valley with the aim of organizing the considerable amount of contributions of a historical, scientific and descriptive nature dedicated to the topic in a unitary and concise form, however as complete as possible, also providing unpublished documentary elements.

It is characterized by a new graphic structure and by a careful revision of the contents updated on the basis of knowledge acquired with new research and through the comparison with various works published in the last fifteen years.

Problems relating to the origin and location of the main roads already existing in the Middle Ages are clarified, following their evolution over the centuries, with attention to their role in the connections between Bergamo, the Brembana Valley and the lands beyond the Alps.

The book also offers a brief review of the access routes from Bergamo to the Brembana Valley active before the construction of the Strada Priula and alternatives or supplements to the better known «Via Mercatorum».

Many tables with the spots important for their history, architecture and art; many photographs and reproductions of documents.
Cod. 2133E
EUR 40,00


Giorgio Migliavacca - Tarcisio Bottani
SIMONE TASSO
e le poste di Milano nel Rinascimento
SIMON TAXIS
and the Posts of the State of Milan during the Renaissance

240 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2008
Italian and English text

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.

CONTENTS

* Foreword
* Introduction

* The Taxis Family, from Cornello to Europe
* Simon Taxis and the Milanese Posts
* Simon Taxis's Will
* Simon Taxis's Family tree
* The Taxis Family and the feud of Paullo
* Simon Taxis and his brothers in the documents kept in the archives of Bergamo

* Appendix: documents centred on the Posts of Simon Taxis
* Bibliography
* Archives
* Alphabetical index of names
Cod. 1533E
EUR 20,00


Tarcisio Bottani
I TASSO DEL BRETTO
I Documenti Tassiani
dell'Istituto Sacra Famiglia di Comonte

160 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2002
Italian text

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.
Cod. 2132E
EUR 20,00


LA CONTRADA BRETTO
DI CAMERATA CORNELLO
E LA FAMIGLIA TASSO IN EUROPA

176 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2002
Italian text

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.
Cod. 1534E
EUR 20,00


Tarcisio Bottani - Wanda Taufer - Bonaventura Foppolo
MARIEGOLA DELLA COMPAGNIA DEI CORRIERI DELLA SERENISSIMA SIGNORIA

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

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.
Cod. 1532E
EUR 20,00


Tarcisio Bottani
I TASSO
E LE POSTE PONTIFICIE
SEC. XV-XVI

126 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2000
Italian text

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.
Cod. 2747E
EUR 30,00


Italo Robetti & Achille Vanara
LA COMUNICAZIONE EPISTOLARE DA E PER TORINO
VOL.V - IL REGNO DI CARLO EMANUELE IV
(16 ottobre 1796 - 4 giugno 1802)

348 pp. - more than 300 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2019
Italian text

THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
VOL.V - THE KINGDOM OF CARLO EMANUELE IV
(16 October 1796 - 4 June 1802)

This book examines the Piedmontese events from 10 October 1796, coronation of Carlo Emanuele IV, up to 4 June 1802, his abdication.

The historical facts of this timeframe of six years are: the French occupation, the escape of the King to Sardinia, the Republican Provisional Government, the Austro-Russian Restoration, the new pro-French Provisional Government, the "Piedmontese Nation", the 27th military division and, in the course of these events, the life of Post until the modifications of postal distances in 1801.
Cod. 2694E
EUR 30,00


Italo Robetti & Achille Vanara
LA COMUNICAZIONE EPISTOLARE DA E PER TORINO
VOL.IV - IL REGNO DI VITTORIO AMEDEO III (1773-1796)
E LE TARIFFE POSTALI DEL 1795 BASATE SULLA DISTANZA
IN POSTE

334 pp. - almost 500 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
Italian text

THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
VOL. IV THE KINGDOM OF VITTORIO AMEDEO III (1773-1796)
AND THE POSTAL RATES OF 1795 BASED ON THE DISTANCE IN "POST"

The Kingdom of Vittorio Amedeo III lasted from 1773 to 1796, for a period of almost twenty years.
Regarding Post, everything happened according to the well-known patents of 1772, with the rate system described in the 3rd volume.
The second period of kingdom of this unfortunate king was, instead, anything but quiet, starting from the French Revolution that, in 1789, upset the entire Europe.

Just during this troubled period, an important postal reform was implemented in Turin, modifying completely the method used in correspondence taxation. A criterion completely new for Piedmont was introduced with the patents of 1795, that is binding the postage of letters to the distance between the location of departure and to the one of destination (criterion already applied in France on the basis of the leagues travelled). The longer was the route the higher was the postage to pay on delivery. Since the journeys used for post by horse were measured in "post", the same was done for letters. So the parameters became two: one was the kind of letter (simple, covered, double, by ounce) and the other one was for the distance measured in "post".
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.
Cod. 2536E
EUR 25,00


Italo Robetti & Achille Vanara
LA COMUNICAZIONE EPISTOLARE DA E PER TORINO
VOL.II - VITTORIO AMEDEO II E LE PRIME TARIFFE PER LA POSTA DELLE LETTERE (1684-1730)

263 pp. - almost 500 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2014
Italian text

THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
vol.II VITTORIO AMEDEO II AND THE FIRST RATES FOR LETTER POST (1684-1730)

This second volume is connected to Vittorio Amedeo II, the Duke of Savoy who became first King of Sicily and then King of Sardinia. As a duke he introduced the first postal rates for letters (1698), as King of Sicily he issued the first organic edict about Post (1718) and as King of Sardinia he made approve the definitive edict of 1720 that was in force up to 1772.

The book is enriched with almost 500 images and it is divided into three chapters: the first one covers the ducal period (1684-1713), the second one concerns the period when Vittorio Amedeo II was King of Sicily (1713-1720) and the third one is about the period when he was King of Sardinia (1720-1730).

High significance is given to the postal rates related to the town of Turin, but there are also particularly interesting documents, such as the first postal agreements undersigned by France and Piedmont at the end of XVII century and continued during the following one. Furthermore much attention is given to the interventions of the Health Magistrate in Turin, to explain the consequence of the frequent epidemics and infectious illnesses on the treatment of letters: the simple external perfuming, the de-sealing with internal perfuming and the subsequent re-sealing, the use of fumigation and the exposure to heat.

The volume is completed by the tables of the rates for letters, by the Generalship of Post and the chronology of popes and kings, by the analytic index of the most significant writings, by the bibliographic references, by the works and the institutes consulted, by the funds consulted in the history Archives of Turin.
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