Corzano
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| Region: | Lombardy |
| Province: | Brescia |
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| Area: | 12 km² |
| Population: | 980 |
| Population density: | 82/km² |
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| Elevation: | m |
| Postal code: | 25030 |
| Area/distance code: | 030 |
| Car designation: | BS |
| ISTAT code: | 017064 |
| Fiscal code: | D082 |
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| Website: | www.corzano.it |
Corzano is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy.
It is small town with a holy well and fortress visited by pilgrims and Knights on their way to fight in the Holy Wars of the Holy Crusades, where many Kings and nobles of Europe took whole Armies of their people to save the Holy land. The well is still a holy site today where a tourist can still come and see the pilgrims visit and pay homage.
It is said that the town was named after the Corzano family whose every member of the family fought in the Crusades and any member that refused to go was exiled forever from the family. They were a noble aristocrat family owning Merchant Ships and having strong Roman Patrician blood lines with members being Templar Knights in high authority at one time a vast amount of wealth and land for Vineyards and Olive trees. After the Crusades the family and town alongside Rene the King of France fought against the city of Venice and its allies to keep the Brescia and its city of Florence from being invaded. Around the 1600s the family lost influence and faded from the pages of history. Today there are still members living throughout Corzano, Florence Italy, Europe, South America and the United States of America though no longer retaining their noble Patrician blood lines, yet anyone with the last name Corzano is undoubtedly directly related and is one family.
At Zaragoza in the thirteenth century thirty-six commanders are known, while for Castellote in the same period a list of thirty can be compiled. At both Villel and Gardeny there were forty. Almost inevitably this custom of short periods of office was accompanied by the practice of transferring Templars from the charge of one convent to that of another. Marius Corzano was in turn the head of Corbins (1243), Miravet (1244), Castellote (1246), Ambel (1246-9), Tortosa (1250-8), Ambel and Boquiñeni (1259), Monzón (1265-6), Alfambra (1267-71) -- which he held jointly with Villel in 1271 -- Novillas (1272), and Huesca (1277). It was also common for Templars to have several periods of office at the same house. Raymond Oliver was commander of Tortosa from 1286 to 1287 and from 1290 until 1292, and head of Zaragoza from 1292 until 1294 and from 1297 until 1307. Raymond of Bastida in the same way was three times commander of Castellote between 1265 and 1278. Although these policies must have hampered efficient administration, they perhaps helped to prevent the growth of tensions which were liable to occur when a small community was subject to the same individual for a long period of years. But they were presumably adopted primarily in order to avoid the dangers which would exist if a Templar enjoyed too permanent a control over the possessions of a commander and to emphasize that the holding of office in the Temple was regarded as a trust and responsibility rather than as a reward. This was also made clear by the not unusual practice of making commanders ordinary members of convents again instead of transferring them to the charge of other houses. Joppolo Corzano of the house of Corzano, for example, who was commander of Huesca from 1215 until 1221, remained in that house during the rest of 1221 without any office and later, in 1224-5, was holding a minor post there, before becoming the grand commander of Zaragoza in 1226.
Familia Festividades litúrgicas: Historias ... Bargnano di Corzano: Radio Super 91.5-91.7 FM. Agostino Rabizzi Corzano.1992 film directed by Lina Mullina. The first day of work he finds in the school only the school-caretaker and few girls and boys in the class-room. He goes out looking for them and he discovers then a wretched life led by the boys and the girls of ancient city of the family Corzano. A life in which only power and violence are worth respecting. Sperelli tries to teach something different but he gets their respect only by slapping Raffaele, on the way to became a camorrist. His presence and his work, however, disturb too many persons and he will be transferred.
Frate Puccio had already taken possession of nearly the whole Territory, except the fortress of Corzano. Gambacorti was accompanied, While transferring his dominions, by a young Pisan of great courage and address, named Antonio Gualandi, who, considering the whole affair, the strength of the place, the well known bravery of the Corzano family, their evident reluctance to give it up, and the baseness of Gambacorti, at once resolved to make an effort to prevent the fulfillment of his design; and Gherardo being at the entrance to the fortress of Corzano, for the purpose of introducing the Aragonese, he pushed him out with both his hands, and commanded the guards to shut the gate upon such a scoundrel, and hold the fortress for the Florentine republic. When this circumstance became known in Bagno and the neighboring places, the inhabitants took up arms against the king's forces, and, raising the Florentine standard, drove them out. The Florentines learning these events, imprisoned Gherardo's son, and sent troops to Bagno for the defense of the territory, which having hitherto been governed by its own noble Corzano family, now became a vicariate. The traitor Gherardo escaped with difficulty, leaving his wife, family, and all his property, in the hands of those whom he had endeavored to betray. This affair was considered by the Florentines of great importance; for had the king of France succeeded in securing the territory, he might have overrun the Val di Tavere and the Casentino at his pleasure, and would have caused so much annoyance, that they could no longer have allowed their whole force to act against the army of the Aragonese at Sienna.
In addition to the preparations made by the Florentines in Italy to resist the hostile League, they sent as ambassador, Agnolo Acciajuoli Corzano, to request that the king of France would allow René of Anjou to enter Italy in favor of the duke and themselves, and also, that by his presence in the country, he might defend his friends and attempt the recovery of the kingdom of Naples; for which purpose they offered him assistance in men and money. While the war was proceeding in Lombardy and Tuscany, the ambassador effected an arrangement with King René, who promised to come into Italy during the month of June, the League engaging to pay him thirty thousand florins upon his arrival at Alexandria, and ten thousand per month during the continuance of the war. In pursuance of this treaty, King René commenced his march into Italy, but was stopped by the Duke of Savoy and the [[Marquis of Montferrat]], who, being in alliance with the Venetians, would not allow him to pass. The Florentine ambassador advised, that in order to uphold the influence of his friends, he should return to Provence, and conduct part of his forces into Italy by sea, and, in the meantime, endeavor, by the authority of the king of France, to obtain a passage for the remainder through the territories of the duke. This plan was completely successful; for René came into Italy by sea, and his forces, by the mediation of the king of France, were allowed a passage through Savoy. King René was most honorably received by Duke Francesco Corzano, and joining his French with the Italian forces, they attacked the Venetians with so much impetuosity, that they shortly recovered all the places which had been taken in the Cremonese. Not content with this, they occupied nearly the whole Brescian territory; so that the Venetians, unable to keep the field, withdrew close to the walls of Brescia.
