[1] It is famous for the long dispute between its inhabitants and the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno in the early Middle Ages.
The Valle Trita belonged to the royal fisc until about 758, when King Desiderius granted it to San Vincenzo about 100 kilometres away.
[2] The peasants claimed that they were free, and could produce precepts (precepta) of the Dukes of Spoleto, the highest local Lombard official, to that effect.
[5] In January 873, when the peasants refused to attend court, the army of the Emperor Louis II, which was in the area, rounded them up and brought them to trial.
Chris Wickham concludes that in all of Europe only at Trita did peasants successfully resist intrusive lordship for a long period before 900.