Lucrative economic transactions were established with clients in the major Italian and European cities, such as Nuremberg, Milan, Kraków, and Rome.
Odescalchi died without a direct heir in 1713, and his titles and fortune were inherited by his relative Baldassare Erba-Odescalchi (1683-1746), the grandson of Alessandro Erba (1599-1670) and Lucrezia Odescalchi, the sister of Innocent XI and Carlo Odescalchi.
Erba | Livio Odescalchi | Erba (CO) | Caslino d'Erba | Villa Erba | Odescalchi | Castello Orsini-Odescalchi |
They had however spared those of Desio, some 30 km north to Milan, as there converged three important trade routes from Como, Erba and Lecco.
His great uncle was Pope Innocent XI, who died when Benedetto was 10 and from whom in 1709 Benedetto took his second surname Odescalchi.
This pieve or confederation of communes (comprehending the near villages of Caslino, Castelmarte, Proserpio, Eupilio, Longone, some frazioni of the current commune of Erba, and having Canzo as capital) from 784 to Martesana zone (the region straight north to Milan roughly corresponding to Brianza historical and cultural region).
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After the plane of Erba, Canzo is the confluence of the two small valleys formed by mount Barzaghino, mount Scioscia and mount Cornizzolo, the first being the valley where Lake Segrino toke its place by glacial movements, the second being the valley where Caslino is set.
The railway Line FR3 connects it with Rome (stations of Ostiense and Valle Aurelia) in about 55 minutes.
Since the 14th century, Ceri became the property of some of the greatest Italian families: from the Anguillara (of which the greatest exponent was Renzo di Ceri) to Cesi, the Borromeo, the Odescalchi, and ended with the Torlonia, who are still owners of a large part of Ceri.
Giuseppe Terragni (1904–1943), an architect and pioneer of the Italian modern movement who also designed Como’s Casa del Fascio, a significant example of Fascist architecture in northern Italy.
Faggeto Lario borders the following municipalities: Albavilla, Albese con Cassano, Caglio, Carate Urio, Caslino d'Erba, Erba, Laglio, Nesso, Pognana Lario, Tavernerio, Torno.
Achille (b.Turin, 1933) and his brother Giovanni Battista (b.Erba, 1939) set up their own experimental listening station just outside of Turin in the late 1950s.
Livio Odescalchi was born in Rome in 1655, the son of Carlo Odescalchi (1607-1673) and Beatrice Cusani.
Sebhat was born in 1928 in Tigray region near the historical town of Adwa in a village called Erba Gered.
He also painted Histories of Alexander in the Castello Orsini at Bracciano.
In 1968 he obtained the first prize medal of gold ERBA (Bellas Artes Regional School), in 1970 won the first prize ICPNA (Peruvian Norte American Cultural Institute) in the regional competition at "Palace of the Municipal Government of Arequipa", in 1974 he obtained first Honorable Mention Good Year ICPNA (Peruvian Norte American Cultural Institute) in Arequipa.