THE 1500'S AGEROLESE

We give some news of aim '400 in order to introduce the picture of the agerolese 1500's. Those good ones in order to put in relief the fact that rose to Agerola lay-religious works of attendance on the model of the bloomed laicali agencies to Naples. Those not beautiful, in order to speak about the plague of 1497, which they followed that one of a 1522 and second one of 1526. This last one made to release the alarm to Castellammare, whose stable Executive 3 November 1526 to invite the inhabitants of Agerola infested from the plague to abstain coming in Castellammare and perceiving the University of Pimonte and Gragnano to take care of from the plague infection that acts cruelly in Agerola.

 

An other epidemic had from the june 1528 and hard one until July 1529. While the morbo imperversava and it decimated the families, a new one badly was pulled down on the population, the banditry. A gang of criminals, formed from various elements and under the commando of such Antonio Brancato, I blot myself of crimes and, above all, ruberie and racketeerings, when here an other disaster.

July 1530, duchessa the Costanza, “being to stay in Amalfi, came authorized with power of attorney of its husband to giving in furnishing one separated of ducati 135, he due annually and riscuotibile from the University of Agerola in three annual expirations. Such operation involved increases for the population, on which they weighed gia the prices of the kinds before needs. For giving an idea of the cost dell to life we give some prices here: Grain for the breadmaking, carlini eleven to tomolo. Fave sand banks, carlini eleven to tomolo. Oil of olive, carlini seventeen to coil. Wine, ducati five to botte. Salata meat, grain eight to coil. Salami affumati, grain ten to coil. Lousy fresh meat de, grain six to coil. Fresh meat of lamb, grain eleven to coil. In the 1543 fiscal impositions they touched high levels much and the tax for fire was increased of three carlini annual. To the already critical situation the earthquake of it joined opens them 1561, that I bring breakdowns to the houses and made prosciugare the reserviors because of the lesions in the walls, lesions that had to be repaired before that the autumn reached. In 1571 died Costanza Piccolomini leaving its heir Giovanni Piccolomini and, to one serious, consequent debt situation a much equally heavy fiscal encumbrance. To the times of the archbishop Carlo Montilio, Agerola, visited many times over, he counted 253 fires and he had the unearned income of duc. 382 and grain 3. To this point our University had need to realize greater entrances. It was, therefore, not more negligible see again pays. Onerous taxes corresponded from the citizens could not be increased to IE gia and then our University control pays of the Agerolesi ecclesiastics. The thing piacque to Giulio archbishop Rossini for which you achieve some in 1577 one scomunica to ours does not talk. Corrected the presumed one without justice from part of our common one, the archbishop revoco the scomunica. It needs of reperire the lacked return in the communal cases forced, but, the University to hit with generic and approximate esteem the assets included in the organic catastale catalogue and not to maintain the resource to the collette and to the already passages. 18 August 1582 died also Giovanni Piccolomini and with its dead women the Ducato di Amalfi, lasted very ended also 123 years, because the vedova of duca the Giovanni endured after the death of the husband it put in sale the Ducato. Agerola in 1583 paid its part of redeems and re-entered in the Federal property. The University once again tried to compile the book catastuolo or map of the massaro, but without i listen.