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BUILDING HISTORY (centuries XVII-XX) by Raffaele Ridolfi

This buildings located in the territory referred as “Ferraresi property” have very ancient constructive origins. Pope Innocent X gave them to Francesco Estense Tassoni in 1650, noble of Modena and Ferrara, as well as governor of ancona, for his services. All the lands and the homes were in use paying four golden ducats to the Holy See.
Since then the “property” is always present in registers known as “ Catasto Carafa” of 1779, “Teresiano” of 1784 and it’s present in the Napoleonic and austriac registers of the 8th Century, too. In the 7th century the Turola family owned this property. They were citizens of Ostiglia in the 7th Century and at the end of this Century they lived in Mantua. A figure to remember was Pietro Paolo, benefactor of Ostiglia’s hospital.

 

THE POSSESSIONS IN THE CENTURIES

The location of the buildings, "factories" as called in the past centuries, was very important: in fact they represented a small civil bulwark between two states, Este-Pontifical and the Gonzaga one. Its life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are often troubled by disputes over possession of the large area of surrounding land, as well as extraction of the products harvested there, that in addition to private dance hours pulling in Ferrara, Mantua hours, now the Holy See, by a large production of deeds. Factories, indicating something solid and material compared to almost all the buildings - we  have in our countries, if we may so call them. Still to early nineteenth century in the investigation "Bertani" only be carried out by Napoleon Bonaparte, our area had at least 90% of dwellings made of reeds, straw and mud bricks. The "possession" are sketched out in the first topographic map in 1753. This design served the plant of the Pillars of configuration it between the State of Ferrara and Mantua, which then give way to the famous "Treaty of Melara" concluded in 1757. Then in the nineteenth century the goods will pass to the noble family of Ferrara Massari and will be led by brothers Zanella for generations.

 

THE EXPERTISE

On the 30th July, 1754 the two Possessions were estimated together, for the value of nearly 5,000 Roman crowns of that time. Are the nobles Tassoni Estense of Ferrara, at this juncture became Marquis, who invested with a level Turola Peter Paul factory and surrounding land. The deed is drafted by a notary of Ferrara, Gaetano Antonio Meloni and in it there was a detailed description of the buildings and their value shields at that time. They included everything needed for a large courtyard houses, cellars, wells, barns, stables, sties, etc. ..