Vervio lies in the Valtellina between Tirano and Bormio, at the foot of Monte Masuccio, and for centuries it belonged to the Venosta, the Tyrolean lords who guarded the parish of Mazzo with a line of castles: the one at Nova stood here. The municipality appears for the first time in a parchment of 1447 kept in the archive of Tovo, the village opposite, on the other side of the Adda. A few years later, in 1453, Vervio and Tovo together bought from the bishop of Como the investiture of pastures, woods, fishing and church revenues, paying a hundred gold ducats for it.
Inside, however, the municipality was two: the quadra of the Mountain and the quadra of the Plain, each divided into hamlets and at odds with the other over civil and religious independence. The parish censuses of 1617 show them close in size, with the Plain slightly larger, a little over six hundred souls in all. From here came the deaf-mute painter Felice Carbonera, active in the second half of the nineteenth century, and here, in the hamlet of Rogorbello, on the night between the 2nd and 3rd of February 1945, five partisans of the Gufi brigade and a civilian were surprised in their sleep and seized by the Brigate Nere: it is remembered as the Vervio massacre.
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