The name of Zenevredo is a juniper wood. In the old papers the place is Cenevretum, then Zenepretum, and in Italian it would mean ginepreto, the place where junipers grow. The first traces seem to go back to the seventh century, when a group of Benedictine monks began to live on these lands; and in 1164 the village is among those that an imperial deed puts under the jurisdiction of Pavia, which means it counted for something and had a castle and a lordship of its own. For centuries it belonged to the Pavia monastery of Santa Maria Teodote, called della Pusterla, so much so that people called it Zenevredo della Pusterla; and the monks' lordship ended only with feudalism, in 1797.
Then the game of passports begins. Zenevredo remains Lombard land until 1743, when the treaty of Worms hands it to the Savoy, and at once it sends its own representative to Voghera, to the assembly of the landowners; the comune, at the time, was a mayor and four councillors. With Napoleon it ends up in the department of Marengo and then in that of Genoa; with the Restoration in the district of Montù Beccaria, province of Voghera. Only in 1859, when the Franco-Piedmontese army takes Lombardy, does it enter the province of Pavia. Meanwhile the hills have stayed where they were, on the right bank of the Versa, just above the plain: and this is the village of Carlo Dossi, writer and archaeologist.
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