stazione di posta = post house, posthouse, posting house

Post house (historical building)
A post house, posthouse, or posting house was a house or inn where horses were kept and could be rented or changed out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_house_(historical_buildin...

stazione di posta
Una stazione di posta, o semplicemente posta, ai tempi dei trasporti a trazione animale, era un luogo adibito a sosta temporanea dei corrieri, delle vetture private e delle diligenze che trasportavano persone, merci e corrispondenza, principalmente per effettuare il cambio dei cavalli[1]. La sosta nelle stazioni rappresentava anche la fermata per la salita e la discesa dei passeggeri.
Insieme ai cavalli freschi venivano assegnati anche nuovi postiglioni, mentre quelli che avevano guidato la vettura fino alla stazione, tornavano alla posta di provenienza riaccompagnandovi al passo i cavalli stanchi[2].
Infine, i viaggiatori che proseguivano, durante il cambio dei cavalli, potevano mangiare nella locanda di posta.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stazione_di_posta



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* in a mansio (post-house) *

mansio (post-house) = ancient Roman station = great imperial inns which served as ration depots and halting places for military details, as well as the putting up of travellers

From The Inns of Greece & Rome, and a history of Hospitality from the Dawn of Time to the Middle Ages,
by W. C. Firebaugh,
with an Introduction by Wallace Rice [...] 1928; pp. 108-125.
... The stages of travel were so admirably calculated that the end of each day’s journey found the traveller at a station where fresh horses and pack animals could be obtained, and where food and lodging were procurable. The post-houses were, in reality, great imperial inns which served as ration depots and halting places for military details, as well as the putting up of travellers, when otherwise unoccupied by imperial missions or other official guests. The entire system was an outgrowth of the Persian Post Service, but in many ways the Roman aggressiveness improved upon the model.
... In spite of all the care taken to shield him, Titus fell a victim to the dangerous and criminal enterprise of his brother Domitian,* in a mansio (post-house) * in the Sabine country, almost at the very gates of Rome. He was taken with that raging fever which caused his death, and tradition has it that the fever was the result of a poison which set his blood on fire. The assassination of Aurelian by his trusted general Mucapor in the post-house at 111 Coenophrurium, between Heracleia and Byzantium, proved yet again that notwithstanding the most painstaking precautions, the gravest danger could still attend and menace even princes in these imperial public houses.
... An episode in the life of Helvius Pertinax, who later became emperor, will serve to illustrate the severity of the regulations governing the post-houses and service.
... Savage also speaks of the mal aria (malaria) which aided the cause of the cutpurses, and which still infests the Roman Compagna. It was a case of danger succeeding danger, and, as is easily seen, from the remarks of Didier on the post-house at Monteroni, the ancient Roman station (ad turres), the robbers which caused such terror of old have yielded before the fever which today has everywhere established itself:
“A great house of stone, in these reaches a rare thing, rears itself from the edge of the road; it is Monteroni, the only posting house between Rome and Civita Vecchia. I enter, solitude reigns throughout; not a soul comes forward to receive me. I call, and a silence as icy and impersonal as death responds to my voice. At last I discover two postillions lying on the floor on a filthy and ragged mattress; two others are lying wrapped in their cloaks, not before the fire, however, but in the center of the hearth itself. Every one of them had the fever and they were so weak that it would have been impossible for any of them to have mounted a horse. Of them I was unable to obtain bread, and it was the same with water.”
https://elfinspell.com/ClassicalTexts/Firebaugh-TheInnsOfGre...

* in a mansio (post-house) *

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- mansio (post-house)
- ancient Roman station
- great imperial inn
- served as ration depot and halting place for military details, as well as the putting up of travellers
https://elfinspell.com/ClassicalTexts/Firebaugh-TheInnsOfGre...