Stories tell he was the prince of a Scottish king during the late Roman Empire who, although endowed with a great fortune, abandoned everything and sought an existence as a hermit in a cave in the mountains of Garfagnana, where he lived until he died.

[5][6][7] The main change in nomenclature was insurged by the city leaders in the year 1680 when they decided to raise a Parish dedicated to San Pellegrino.

[14] On the coat of arms, in the center, is a rampant fox with whitish fur, which according to Antonio "seemed to be so covered with snow that it was white, just as our hills get in winter" and with "a bluish eye that reflects our riches".

To the left and right are grayish or white foxes that "watch attentively for dangers" and below is a loose silk sash on which are written the following sayings (originally in Latin): "Those who teach", likely alluding to Antonio's position as a member of the court of the d'Este for many years.

However, after a disagreement with his stepmother, Laura Corsini, about the property surrounding his father Jacopo Corsi's inheritance, he had to move out of the city in a hurry.

When his father died in 1628, Alfonso III d'Este became Sovereign Duke of Modena, but he considered taking religious vows and abandoning the title.

[20][21] It is at this time that an apogee intensified and a series of improvements began to be demanded by Ferdinand II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, in the castles of Modena as preparation and consequence of the Thirty Years War, but also by the intensification of border fights against the Republic of Lucca.

He was able to concentrate his forces on rebuilding the ruins of the ancient Castle of Fiorano, which would come to fruition in 1634 with a project by the architect Bartolomeo Avanzini, who transformed the place into the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgine del Castello.

[27] Alfonso III died in 1644 and shortly thereafter, in 1646, Antonio ended his activities as Podestà of Trassilico and headed to San Pellegrinetto, a locality where he had property and from where he ascended as Marquis.

It is worth noting that by this time Antonio was already 67 years old and an elderly man, but he knew Francesco's successor, Alfonso IV d'Este from his birth, having also helped him in his short reign, which lasted until his death on 16 June 1662.

It is, also at this time, that some of the city's baptismal books were inaugurated and stopped being subscribed to neighboring parishes such as Trassilico, Gallicano, and Campolemisi, on whom San Pellegrinetto seemed to be dependent when it was founded in the 14th century.

[31] After his ascension as marquis in 1692, in 1694, Giovanni built houses in the village using stone and wood, focusing essentially on recruiting new families for the expansion of the region, which attracted some branches of the Baldi, Battaglia, Benelli, Celeri, Frati, Galanti, Pelletti and Pierotti, who list as accepted at this time to practice sheep farming on the land granted to him near Via alla Fontana.

This added to the fact that Antonio had to finance an expensive expansion of the church of San Pellegrino to accommodate and support the growing demand.

When Antonio died on 2 May 1744, at the age of 76, he was succeeded by his son, named Giovanni II, 4th Marquis of San Pellegrinetto, who was married to Maria Maddalena Rossini.

Among other reasons, Stefano's arguments were inflamed by the sale in 1748 of one of the Corsi family's oldest sheep farms in San Pellegrinetto to another of Maria Maddalena's brothers, Giovanni Rossini, for 45% less than expected.

The constant rivalry was reflected in the sons as well; when Marco began to administer the remaining family property in 1753 at the age of 25 and to ascend de facto as the 5th marquis of the city, he had two of his mother's brothers, Antonio and Felice Rossini, expelled at once.

[37] As the leader of the town of San Pellegrinetto, Marco doubled down on funding, adding a baptismal font to the parish in 1772 and a bell tower at the rear of the church in 1786.

Domenico Antonio, born 9 October 1778, whose lineage was extensive, became the last remaining in San Pellegrinetto after the family's immigration to other localities.

He and his wife Elisabetta were murdered by apparent poisoning and received honors from the Pieve of Santa Maria Assunta in Stazzema, where they were benefactors and financial backers.

Of all the older properties, Arcangiolo lived in the only one that remained, located near the parish of San Martino in Pietrasanta, which had been in the family business for many generations.

Arcangiolo, who was reintegrating himself back into the city of his ancestors, came into contact with a cadet branch whose blood he shared, who were also marquises, but from the town of Caiazzo and recently of Montepescali, a title that had been granted by Grand Duke Ferdinand III in 1819 to Amerigo Corsi, who was a Knight of Malta.

He remained in contact with these cadets until at least the late 1830s, having on 25 November 1837 bought one of the titles, the Marquisate of Caiazzo, for 65,000,000 ducats from Francesco and his father Amerigo.

Since his older sons Oreste, Jacopo, and Giuseppe were already married, with children, and had lost interest in emigrating, Angiolo's solution was to rest his hopes on the younger ones, Lorenzo and Pietro.

In 1890, Pietro, who was already the father of four children received permission and the invitation to emigrate where they would be welcomed on a farm called Emboaba, in the city of Ribeirão Preto, in the interior of the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

[44] Pietro sold his properties and when his father Angiolo died the following year on 5 October 1891 in the town of Pietrasanta, he asked permission to postpone his departure, which was granted.

After Angiolo's burial and Pietro's ascension as 9th Marquis of San Pellegrinetto and 12th of Caiazzo, in early 1896, he left for Genoa with his family, from where the ship would depart to its final destination.