Autore: Ambrosoli, Mauro
Titolo: La difesa della fertilità e l’agricoltura temporanea nella prima età moderna. Un aggiornamento
Periodico: Quaderni storici
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 178 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 177 - Pagina finale: 209

Research in the last thirty years have provided enough information to make clear that green cover was the way to keep field fertility. In the 13th-16th centuries Cistercian fathers of Chiaravalle monastery near Milan were able to gain control of a large area of marginal and common lands which lay abandoned between Milan and Lodi. Common pastures were replaced by sown meadows later improved as watered meadows when irrigation canals were dug by the religious orders and lay lordships. After the 1560s workers from Lodi worked in Turin to improve the fodders of ducal estates and a similar management of meadows created private fortunes in Mantua. Sown clovers and other grasses supported large cattle and sheep flocks managed by specialist shephards from Bergamo, rich in capitals and cash: green cover field fertility for the landlord only. This course of husbandry worked well for the large estates run by the religious orders and noble lordships but left smaller sharecroppers and owner occupiers short of fodder. Year 1610 choosen by Lewis and Maslin (2015) to mark the beginning of the anthropocene serve well to illustrate field fertility practices in the light of the climatic crisis of the early 17th century.




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