

TO NOTE STYLE! IMPECCABLE ... ......
This however does not stop the fantasy of the employees (of place names) and some years ago, flourished, as it were, round and junctions named after movie stars, singers and athletes, there is also the proposal to name a street after Mickey Mouse, I swear it's true.
Then there is Piazza Liber Paradisus. That first of all, with all those they certainly are not meeting the delivery of free-range three-quarters of Bologna. And while I imagine the clogging of the telephone stations of taxis, for the complicated spelling necessary to the understanding of the name: "Radiotaxi? I send a car to Piazza del Paradiso Free? "" As it says, please? "" A car. Place a car ... Libreparissus "" What did he say? Square Free Paris? "" No, Piazza Libroparisso. The new town square, the palace all in short glass! "" Ah, ok ... 9 Monza in three minutes, good day. "
In fact, aside the sarcastic and provocative with whom I have deliberately introduced the topic, the fact that the vast majority of history books for the school did not mention this a gap is not insignificant.
The Liber Paradisus which is called the Square the new headquarters of the municipality, the district Navile is a document dating back to 1257 with which Bologna, first in the world, declared the abolition of the serfs (last class of the society, feudal memory), and the unconditional release of all those who belonged, regardless of sex or age. The release, to be honest, it cost a lot of money to municipal coffers, because the servants were paid to their masters to the current market price, which did not involve differences between men and women, but only between adults and minors (at that time the largest age is around 14 years), and redemption was the total price of 54,014 lire Bologna. Beyond the gesture, so to say, humanitarian, should be taken into account the economic interests of such a move: more free citizens, and we're talking about almost six thousand people, primarily meant more revenue in taxes. Moreover, even then, about six and a half centuries in advance on the theories Taylor of the industrial revolution, it was understood that it could increase the productivity of a free individual than that of a man held in a state close to that of slavery.
The writing of the Liber Paradisus, in Latin, was entrusted to four solicitors, one for each of the constituencies in which it was divided by the municipality, and provide a full list, broken down by quarter, the names of freed slaves, 5855 as a whole, and 379 owners to which they belonged. The title, so call it, this volume is inspired dall'incipit the prologue of that attributed to Rolandino de 'Passengers, which tells of how God had created in Paradise, in principle, the man absolutely and completely free.
Incidentally, Rolandino de 'Passengers character was a not insignificant period in the life of the city of Bologna: Secretary of the Municipality of Bologna in 1246, marked half a century for all the political events of the city . And, personally, and that no one wants to hurt me, makes me Bossi in mind the early days after the election victory last April, the boss of three hundred thousand men with guns ready HOT Rolandino is in fact given the answer that the dry Bolognesi gave the Emperor Frederick II after the battle of Fossalta: " if the Emperor Frederick will be with his hosts, find the Bolognese with swords in hand ready to stand like lions."
The book, recently restored, besides fully accessible in digital format, is preserved in the State of Bologna, Piazza de 'Celestine.
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