Bianchi is a village of names. Its own comes, on the most accredited hypothesis, from the Bianco family, among the first to settle here after arriving from Scigliano; the Scigliano families moved in the middle of the 17th century, after the earthquake of 1638 had wrecked their town. And each hamlet says what it was: Murachi is a surname, Censo the zone where a levy was collected, Serradipiro the pear tree from which the patron's statue was carved, Palinudo a land fenced with bare stakes, Ronchi the farm tool called a runca. About Paragolio nobody can say anything. The comune separated from Scigliano in 1820.
In 1792 bishop Grillo, of the diocese of Martirano, made the church of San Giacomo Apostolo a parish; the oldest church, though, is the one at Serradipiro, with its wooden altar of 1609. Not far off stand the ruins of the Cistercian abbey of Santa Maria di Corazzo, where Joachim of Fiore was abbot, and in the municipal library, opened in 2010 inside the town hall, 16th-century parchments are kept, among them acts signed by Charles V, bulls of Benedict XII and documents of Constance of Hauteville on the privileges of that abbey. Between 1940 and 1943 the village was a place of internment: here, on 19 November 1942, the Pole Enrico Brochis died; his wife Olga Mizrah Brochis was freed in September 1943.
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