STORIA DI BOLOGNETTA del Prof. SANTO LOMBINO ( quarta parte ) The foundation and urban
From the English capital, from which Philip II, ruler of an empire pluricontinentale had prescribed, June 3, 1573, the criteria to be followed to build new cities in the U.S. territories of Conquest, came clear guidelines for the construction of new settlements. It was considered essential to the existence and the centrality of a large square or rectangular square from which branch off in an orthogonal street diritte e ampie che formino un reticolo regolare. Nel caso del comune feudale che stava nascendo, il barone pensò di partire dall’edificio preesistente, il fondaco, ma non mancò di prevedere una piazza contigua ed anche, in seguito, una più grande piazza centrale. Le vie, perpendicolari alla regia trazzera costeggiata dal fondaco e a monte di essa, furono allineate in direzione nord-sud e, consentendolo la conformazione del terreno, tutte abbastanza ampie, fatta eccezione per la prima, ad est del fondaco, ancor oggi popolarmente indicata come “la strada stretta” (tratto iniziale dell’attuale via Monachelli), che, in quanto tale, servì evidentemente da esempio da non ripetere per le successive strade. Marco Mancino pianificò la lottizzazione in modo che “habitaturi et citatini” costruissero blocchi di case a spina composti da più corpi, per consentire alla maggior parte delle costruzioni di usufruire di tre muri comuni ai fabbricati laterali e a quello retrostante.
Il potere baronale richiedeva inoltre una sede fisica la cui posizione facesse rilevare anche simbolicamente i rapporti di forza: il palazzo del feudatario fu costruito quindi con robuste mura a nord dell’abitato, in posizione altimetrica dominante rispetto a tutte le strade, su uno slargo pianeggiante ancor oggi chiamato chianu casteddu, piano del castello, corrispondente alle otto-novecentesche vie parallele Trentacosti, Saverino, Romano.
Il territorio not intended for use as buildings was divided into three parts: the feudal, cultivation by employees of the lord, the one given in lease to settlers (these lands are still called 'nchiuse) and the third, including common land used for to civic uses, where everyone has the right to legnatico, grazing, storage of manure ('u cummuni).
Dynasty Mancino-Palmer.
Marco Mancini, the purchaser of the estate, is indicated in the act of sale, without further specification or qualification, as "this city". For its part, Francesco Nicotra top del XX secolo, raccogliendo la testimonianza del signorino Monachelli, lo definisce “ricco mercatante genovese, passato in Sicilia con l’idea di acquistarvi una piccola signoria e godervisi in pace gli ozi che gli permetteva la bene spesa attività della sua giovinezza” . Le due cose non paiono in contraddizione, e possono essere entrambi vere: basta disporle nel tempo e notare che Marco Mancino aveva nel 1588 finanziato la costruzione del convento di S. Francesco con attigua cappella che ospitava una attivissima comunità dei Cappuccini nel vicino comune di Ciminna ed acquistato nel 1593, come si è detto, il feudo di Tumminìa dagli indebitatissimi signori Bosco, conti di Vicari.
Il fondatore era però senza eredi natural: it was his desire, expressed in 1624, three years before his death, that the feud was right after his death, with an annual pension of 2,120 ounces, from Troy or Trajan Parisi, Baron Milocca (Miles) and his legitimate heirs, as long as they assume the name of Marco Mancino. Thus was born the dynasty Mancino which lasted until the nineteenth century. In his will, Marco Mancino I has to be buried in the chapel of the Capuchins in Palermo, the infirmary where he had founded. Another proof of this close relationship with the Franciscan religious order: the first revelation of the country speaks of a Hospice of the Reverend Capuchin Fathers from the early decades of the life of the new land were present with their religious activities. In the same act established a legacy of the founder marriages destined for a poor girl in the country: every year, at the expense of the Lords Mancino, it would be given a dowry of 12 oz for the kit to offer to a young orphaned or otherwise needy and not able to meet the costs of her marriage. This linked actually lasted until the nineteenth century, assigned to the barons first save and the Congregation of Charity of Bolognetta then.
On April 10, 1627, who died as a parent, Troiano Parisi gets the royal investiture by the name of Marco Mancino II. The process of appointment on which to pronounce favorably King Philip IV of Spain, talks about the possession of the town called Bolognetta (possessionem firms appointed by Bolognetta lands "), then using the name provided in the sales Beccadelli-Lefty: a clear sign that the two names were used interchangeably in the country and still use the name of current can be ignored, at least in official documents.
Marco Mancino third he dies without legitimate children ("sine filiis legitimis") in September 1664 at age 33 in the city of Palermo, and is buried in the church of S. Domenico. It 's very likely that he died suddenly, and this would explain the lack of any testamentary disposition. It then becomes the holder of the fief Jerome Parisi and Seventh, as the second brother ("fraternal used SECUNDO genitus"), under the name of Marco Mancino IV.
Thus succeeded the feudal lords of the noble family of the Marquis of Ogliastro until Marco Mancino VII, who married Joan Deodato Landolina and Moncada, daughter of the Prince of Torrebruna (July 1776). These built in 1780 a large fountain in the square-abbeveratorio more of the country (Razor square, then more elegantly named Fountain Square, between 1927 and Giolitti then the square of the war dead) and in 1785 restoration of the Cathedral Church of Ogliastro. Appointed governor for life of the Monte di Pietà of the capital, promoted the new regulation in 1779, but was arrested in 1784 after the discovery of false in the management of certain loans. The family came to extinction then Mark VIII Mancino, who began work in the fateful year 1812, without male heirs, who squandered his wealth by supporting the Bourbons until the end of their reign.
