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One of the most predictable implications of photography consists of the ability to fix some images returning them in a variable timeframe for the observation. In all the major world cities, it is common to incur in some book where recent photos are compared to old ones searching the same point of view in order to make the comparison more accurate and stimulate the critical ability of the observer. An exercise that sometimes stimulates a sort of regret for the past, pointing out a diffused excess of nostalgia for times gone by. Nevertheless, the reality and meaning of modern city images are not always so prosaic. What happens when photographs are evocative of a reality that is completely lost in the collective imaginary even though it still exists and functions, despite being forgotten and buried in the depths of the city? This is the case of very few pictures capable of telling the story of a city, Milan, and its only "real" river, the Olona, whose waters, humiliated and rejected, continue to flow in total amnesia. It is a different story when photography does not have the role of nourishing nostalgia, but the power to make visible and explain the variation of a presence and its progressive obliteration. Some pictures testify to the passage from the bucolic amenity of the river and its banks in a pre-urban context to a muscular urban infrastructure. A rigid channelized river, shown with confidence, is trying to keep its presence, until the moment of its inevitable decline and disappearance. It is in these images that the possibility of reconsidering the Olona as a part of the new project for the city lies.

TIl saggio analizza la gestione del patrimonio fondiario e del network relazionale del monastero di S. Prospero di Reggio Emilia, nel corso del Trecento. Attraverso l'analisi di una fonte inedita si è visto come diversi fattori (economici, politicosociali, demografici) influirono sul cenobio reggiano, mettendo in luce aspetti di continuità e di discontinuità. Continuità che si può riscontrare nel network di relazioni imperniato sul monastero, composto principalmente da comitatini e da esponenti dei ceti cittadini. Tra essi spiccano anche membri di estrazione aristocratica, i quali, al fine di radicarsi nel monastero, prendeva in conduzione terre monastiche in affitto oppure in feudo. Discontinuità che invece emerge in maniera evidente a livello della contrattualistica agraria. Sotto la spinta di esigenze economiche (aumentare la resa dei coltivi, razionalizzare e compattare i fondi) e politiche (ricostituire un solido network dopo le epidemie di peste e il governo di Feltrino Gonzaga) i contratti agrari ridussero la loro durata, da lunghi a mediobrevi, e in alcuni casi aggiunsero clausole volte a caricare il rapporto di dipendenza tra il massaro e l'abate. DOI 10.17464/9788867743322 ; The aim of this paper is to illustrate the management of the properties and the relational network of the monastery of S. Prospero in Reggio Emilia during the 14th century. The analysis of an unpublished source allow us to see how different causes of the Crisis of the 14th century (economic, social, demographic and political) affected the monastery, showing aspects of continuity and discontinuity. On one hand continuity can be spotted in the relational network gravitating around the abbey, consisting of both rural and urban population. The members of the urban oligarchy in order to establish deep roots in the monastery of S. Prospero used to receive monastic lands in feud or in leasing. On the other hand, discontinuity can be obviously spotted in the agrarian contracts. Under the pressure of economical (increasing the land's yield and compacting the farms) and political needs (restoring the relational network after the Black Plague and the Feltrino Gonzaga's government) the agrarian contracts reduced their duration, from long time ones to short ones, and sometimes they added new clauses, whose aim was to increase the dependency between the abbot and the peasants. DOI 10.17464/9788867743322