In 1579 the village assemblies of Piano, Vissone and Solato refused to pay their tithes to the Federici, and Giovanni Dolfin, bishop of Brescia, placed the village under interdict. The following year Carlo Borromeo crossed the Val Camonica on pastoral visitation and did not stop at Piano: he drove straight past. The community took the point and backed down over the tithes, and on the fourth of September, on his way back, the cardinal came through the village. It is an excommunication lifted in a very concrete manner, with a halt granted the way a signature is granted.
Pian Camuno, four thousand four hundred inhabitants in the province of Brescia, lies in the lower Val Camonica on the Brescian bank of the Oglio. It was called simply Piano until the royal decree of the eleventh of January 1863 added the reference to the valley; on a map of Lake Iseo and the Camonica drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in 1510 it appears annotated as Pià, which is still the name in dialect today. On the sixth of December 1809 forty deserters from Napoleon's army hid in a farmstead: discovered, many escaped, sixteen remained shut inside and the building was set on fire. A nineteenth-century painting on the front of a hay barn still records it.
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