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Omodeo Tasso

January 01, 1970

Omodeo Tasso or Omodeo de Tassis[1] (XIII Century – 1290) was the late-13th century Italian patriarch of the Thurn und Taxis dynasty generally credited with initiating the first modern postal service as the administrators first of the Imperial Post and later their own postal network.

Omodeo's family was known to have lived in the Val Brembana in Cornello dei Tasso since c. 1200.[2] The feuding between the Guelf Colleoni and the Ghibelline Suardi in the nearby commune of Bergamo caused them to relocate to the more distant village of Cornello, where Omodeo grew up. Around 1290,[3] after Milan had conquered Bergamo, Omodeo organized 32 of his relatives into the Company of Couriers (Italian: Compagnia dei Corrieri) and linked Milan with Venice and Rome.[4] The recipient of royal and papal patronage, his company was so comparatively efficient that post riders became known as bergamaschi throughout Italy.[5]

Legacy edit

Under the misspelling "Omedio Tassis", Omodeo figures prominently in the Thomas Pynchon novella The Crying of Lot 49.[6][7]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Albero genealogico dei Tasso (PDF) (in Italian), Museo dei Tasso e della storia postale
  2. ^ Originally from Almenno, around 1200 they moved to Cornello, in the upper Brembana valley.
  3. ^ The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work, Vol. 25, p. 476. Utgiver Americana Corporation, 1958. Accessed 3 October 2013.
  4. ^ Turismo Lombardia. "Il Borgo di Camerata Cornello dei Tasso 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine". Accessed 3 October 2013. (in Italian)
  5. ^ López Jurado, Luis Felipe. Prefilatelia de Murcia: Historia Postal del Reino de Murcia desde 1569 hasta 1861, pp. 26 ff. "La Familia Tassis". Editora Regional de Murcia, 2006. Accessed 3 October 2013. (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. Lippincott & Co., 1966.
  7. ^ Hurley, Patrick J. Pynchon Character Names: A Dictionary, p. 155. McFarland & Co., 2008.

References edit

  • Tarcisio Bottani (2002). Tasso del Bretto. I documenti tassiani dell'Istituto Sacra Famiglia di Comonte (in Italian). Corponove Bergamo. ISBN 9788887831184.
  

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