The lowest areas of the territory are found in the north-west, facing Anagni, and are used to cultivate vinyards and olive groves.

This period culminated in the rule of Pope Boniface VIII, who was born in Anagni to a nobel family and whose notorious interference in power and politics ultimately led to his downfall.

In 1300 Boniface VIII succeeded in manipulating the Conti family into the sale of the feifdom of Sgurgola to his nephew Pietro Caetani.

In the summer of 1303 Pope Boniface VIII sent the physician and alchemist Arnaldo da Villanova to reside in Sgurgola, and it was here that he composed one of his most important work of the apocalypse, De mysterio cymbalorum Ecclesiae, in which he predicted the imminent arrival of the antichrist and the end of the world, and called for true evangelism and extolled the virtues of absolute poverty.

Boniface VIII had a hand in politics in greater Europe, particularly in France, Scotland and England where he was actively promoting Rome's interests.

He sent his men to organise a conspiracy to overthrow the Pope, gathering support from the displaced Lords of Sgurgola and the surrounding territories.

The coming of the railway in the mid 1800s opened Europe and the world to the region, and many Sgurgolani relocated to Rome and beyond seeking a better life.

Those who remained continued to work the land, with the area being known for some of the best wine, table grapes and olive oil being sent throughout Europe by train.

Cases were also reported in Sgurgola in connection to the mass rape, slaughter and torture of civilians by the Maroccan Gourmiers of the French foreign legion - termed Marrocchinate - in the days following the Allied victory at the Battle of Monte Cassino in May 1944.

It is estimated there were over 60,000 victims of this brutal atrocity across the province of Frosinone with wide reaching cultural consequences for the population.