Chapter ID: CBB211751048

Storia familiare e storia produttiva a Cedrasco. Approfondimenti prosopografici (secoli XV-XVIII) (2022)

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A bloomery furnace existed and was active in Val Cervia, one of the valleys of the Bergamesque Alps near Valtellina, from the second half of the fourteenth century. After a first roasting at high altitude, the iron ore was purified and transformed into crude iron (or cast iron) in another furnace, before being worked in forges. The proximity to Val Cervia, with plentiful supplies of timber for producing charcoal and water from the river Cervo, together with the stable presence of a skilled workforce from the upper Val Brembana (Bergamo), enabled these activities to be carried out in the town of Cedrasco where, between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the waters of the irrigation channel (roggia) provided power for the mills, bellows and the trip-hammer of an iron smelting furnace and a forge, before flowing into the Adda. During the fifteenth century, the Faburro de Gavazzi family produced round iron bars (verzelle) on behalf of the Capitanei and the Beccaria families of Sondrio in this forge at the entrance to the Val Cervia. Towards the end of the sixteenth century, these activities passed into the hands of the Salis family of Soglio who constructed a new, larger forge with two bellows, two furnaces and a small forge called “la chioderia”, where iron was transformed into bars, nails and keys. Despite changing hands, the forge remained active for virtually the whole of the nineteenth century. It was turned into a small hydroelectric power station in the first half of the twentieth century. Even this power station has now fallen into disuse and the only trace of the area’s glorious past is the old irrigation channel (roggia) which still flows through the town.

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Ilaria Sanmartino
Santinucci, Giovanna
Farinelli, Roberto
Vergani, Raffaello
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