| Titre | Métallurgie pré-industrielle, pollution, vie rurale : le cas de la haute Italie | |
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| Auteur | Raffaelo Vergani | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 125-126, 1992 Métallurgie à la campagne | |
| Page | 69-79 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Preindustrial Metallurgy, Pollution, Rural Life : Alpine Italy
Riva d'Agordo, a village in the Venetian Alps, lies a few hundred meters above the Imperina Vale where, at the start of the Quattrocento, copper pyrite was mined and "baked" in open hearths so as to extract copper. Sulfurous by-products polluted the land and damaged crops, as documents from 1580 prove. Mining and metal- working grew throughout the 17th and 18th centuries with, as a consequence, more pollution. The village adapted its economy to the new activities in Imperina Val : in 1766, more than 90% of men fit for work were employed extracting metal. Villagers did not fight against the inevitable pollution. Instead, they used it to bargain for gifts to charities, tax exemptions, and compensation for lost farm income. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1992_num_125_1_3354 |
