 In one of the points more width seen on the gulf, carefullied lay down on the contrafforto that it divides it goes them of the dragone from that one of the Reginna, is Ravello: the more precious gem of the amalfitana peninsula, and to which more evocative beauty is reached through one of the roads.
Of perceived the mysterious magic and
of it immortalò the memory Giovanni Boccaccio, that it had you vary friends to Ravello, between which Angel from Ravello "optimus atque venerabilis vir ET amicus" and to which it did not have to be ignoto these "dilettevole border of the coast of Amalfi", if to the beginning of the quarter novel of the second day of its "Decameron" therefore it represented the fantastic splendor of the landscape. "Credesi
that navy from Reggio to Gaeta is nearly the dilettevole part
than Italy, in which, much near to Salerno, it is a coast over
' l regarding sea, which the inhabitants call the coast of Amalfi,
flood of picciole cities, garden and the Fontanas, and rich and
procaccianti men in action of mercatanzia, like some others:
between which said cities, n' are one called Ravello... "
The tradition wants it founded from the Roani in YOU century during the second
gotica war. Mentioned sin from IX the century like possedimento of the Amalfitana
Republic, "being itself in the 1081 normanno Guiscardo moved to the shipment of east against emperor Alessio Comeno, the Amalfitani embezzling itself from of he the dominion was created just doge; to noble the Ravellesi trincierati in the Taurus they wanted to remain faithful to the Normanni giving itself to duca the Ruggieri: For such fact the Amalfitani named dappoi that Rebello place. Duca the Ruggieri in prize of the found fidelity ne' Rebellesi and in order to make onta the Amalfitani, cooperossi near Pope Vittore III, than rattrovavasi in Capua, to raise that city to vescovado, exempting it from the metropolitan of Amalfi, and soggettandola immediately to the Pope ".
Therefore elevated to center episcopal in 1086, it came joined from Pope Clemente
VIII in 1063 to that one of Scale and in the 1084 press and incorporated to
the diocese of Devout Amalfi from WAYS During the first given bag to Amalfi
from the 6 Pisani August 1135, its castle of Fratta resisted giving to time
to Ruggiero the Normanno to reach to defeat the invaders. The Pisani was revenged
orribilmente in the July of 1137 having it for three days. Ravello made always
ducato part of of Amalfi following some the fates during its autonomy and also
when it became feudo.
To the end of XI the century it counted
approximately 36.000 inhabitants and it numbered 13 parishes,
4 monasteri and a hospital. Defined "most opulent, most equipped and impregnable" to the par of the near Scale, in XIII the century it was lived from a great number of noble - between these we remember the Rufolo family that the same Boccaccio in mentioning Ravello writes: "in which, as today v' it has rich men, ve n' it had already which richest Landolfo (probably referring to Lorenzo) Rufolo was called" - a lot that very many persons "coveted of being ascribed to its Seat of the Noble ones". After the terrible pillage operated from the Pisani, the city began to become depopulated finchè towards the end of XIII the century "it saw to approach the hour of its forfeiture". A lot was rinomata for its tintorie that in 1294 Carl II granted to i Ravellesi the monopoly of that industry. All the laniera, cotoniera and frustagnera production of the ducato one of Amalfi could not be ink that in the plants of Ravello. I privilege was confirmed from Giovanna II allorchè the
powerful Plagued family of tried to implant one tintoria near
Scale. The industry of the tintoria began to lose its importance
from XV the century, in order then to disappear probably for
the plague of 1656: Spaces were the tried ones you of Chiarelli
bishop in 1750 to make to live again it.
Thanks to prof. Adriano Caffaro for the helping.
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