The collection of wild fruits was further economic activity involving the extraction of natural resources. In this area, the product of greater weight on the diet was made up from certainly chestnuts. But we must point out that only up to a point that economic resources could be credited to the use of uncultivated areas. In many cases, in fact, more and more systematically over time, we do not merely take advantage of the wild chestnut, but proceeded to graft trees, raise them, grow them. In
Trecentonovelle chestnuts appear only on one occasion in the novel where CLXXV Foraboschi But, coming back from Valdarno towards Florence, he stops to greet a friend in Cascia farmer. The farmer invites him to drink and gives him so hard that the dried chestnuts But just can not chew:
"Few years have passed that Florence was a gentleman named Pero Foraboschi, who, being old and having years of the new , returning to Florence and the Arno Valley coming to Cascade, he was invited to the month of October, almost in order to drink there with a peasant, who accepted the invitation, he was traveled dried chestnuts, for so great so it takes away Pero several in hand, and starting to want to eat one, between whom he had few teeth and bad, and the chestnut was as hard as stone, 'and there was no way that' if not cavasse rimettessela of mouth and in her hand, and ripresene another which shape does not soak in like ever, and testing or the other or one o'clock, and all the evidence in hand if the ritolse, without them tame. And thus failing in his hand, takes his leave, and coming to Florence, not dimorsò never, ever way or between one o'clock or the other you put in your mouth, and the more the sputter and rugrumava, more hardened. "
emerge from the work cited several elements that allow us to make considerations: the fact that the story is set in Cascia (now in Umbria), an area of \u200b\u200bhigh ground, which confirms for the populations of high hills and mountains, the chestnut plays a role of primary importance because it gives a significant contribution to the subsistence food of the inhabitants. In addition, we can not neglect the humble conditions of his Pero Foraboschi: chestnuts were characterized as a food destination mainly popular because of easy availability and the very high calorific value. This explains why under the influence of progressive increase their tution is the centuries between the XI and XIII, where the nature of the soil does not recommend the expansion of arable land was provided, in fact, often the plant of chestnut, which are not we sometimes hesitated to sacrifice the original forest cover. From the foothills of the Alps Amiata, from the mountains of the Ligurian Apennines Calabria, the shortage of bread wheat is remedied by regularly, according to a meaningful expression with the "bread tree" [...]
Trecentonovelle chestnuts appear only on one occasion in the novel where CLXXV Foraboschi But, coming back from Valdarno towards Florence, he stops to greet a friend in Cascia farmer. The farmer invites him to drink and gives him so hard that the dried chestnuts But just can not chew:
"Few years have passed that Florence was a gentleman named Pero Foraboschi, who, being old and having years of the new , returning to Florence and the Arno Valley coming to Cascade, he was invited to the month of October, almost in order to drink there with a peasant, who accepted the invitation, he was traveled dried chestnuts, for so great so it takes away Pero several in hand, and starting to want to eat one, between whom he had few teeth and bad, and the chestnut was as hard as stone, 'and there was no way that' if not cavasse rimettessela of mouth and in her hand, and ripresene another which shape does not soak in like ever, and testing or the other or one o'clock, and all the evidence in hand if the ritolse, without them tame. And thus failing in his hand, takes his leave, and coming to Florence, not dimorsò never, ever way or between one o'clock or the other you put in your mouth, and the more the sputter and rugrumava, more hardened. "
emerge from the work cited several elements that allow us to make considerations: the fact that the story is set in Cascia (now in Umbria), an area of \u200b\u200bhigh ground, which confirms for the populations of high hills and mountains, the chestnut plays a role of primary importance because it gives a significant contribution to the subsistence food of the inhabitants. In addition, we can not neglect the humble conditions of his Pero Foraboschi: chestnuts were characterized as a food destination mainly popular because of easy availability and the very high calorific value. This explains why under the influence of progressive increase their tution is the centuries between the XI and XIII, where the nature of the soil does not recommend the expansion of arable land was provided, in fact, often the plant of chestnut, which are not we sometimes hesitated to sacrifice the original forest cover. From the foothills of the Alps Amiata, from the mountains of the Ligurian Apennines Calabria, the shortage of bread wheat is remedied by regularly, according to a meaningful expression with the "bread tree" [...]
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