The Rovelli family, “marangoni” that is, carpenters, lived for generations in Cusio Superiore, a district that in the 15th century was part of the municipality of Averara, of which it was the Quadra di Sopra. At the beginning of the 1600s Francesco di Simone Rovelli, lived in this house ‘murata, porticata, solerata, zovata, lobiata e piotata,‘ that is, built with solid walls and a large stone entrance portal with a chamfered arch, with a framed border, with a portico on the ground floor overlooked by the carpenters“ workshop, with more beamed slabs covered with plank floors, with wooden balconies, the characteristic ”lobie“ and with the roof covered with slates. In this house had workshop Antonio Rovelli (1641-1710) and then his son Ambrogio (1674-1747), who in contracts said to have workshop ”at the fountain of Cusio.“.
In 1794 part of this large house, the one toward the widening of the fountain, was given by Angelo, fu Gian Maria, who by then lived in Bergamo, to Gio Battista Anatalone Paleni, while Antonio's house was still inhabited by Giuseppe di Lorenzo Rovelli. On the house was a fresco with Madonna and Saints dated 1603, donated to parish priest Don Giacomo Beretta in 1966 and of which the second layer still remains. An underground passageway then remains in this house that crossed the street and led into a cellar toward the church and that people said once led all the way to Cusio Basso. In this workshop of marangoni, carvers and inlayers, worked, the progenitor Antonio with his sons Giuseppe, Antonio, Giovan Maria, Francesco and Gio. Battista and great-grandson Lorenzo until 1854.
In the Rovelli workshop he learned the art of carving and inlaying Gio. Paolo Caniana (1669-1749) of Romano, who was here from 1685 to 1690, when on August 23 he married Caterina Guarinoni of Averara, where he then went to live before moving to Alzano where he would be engaged, with his more famous brother Gian Battista, in the creation of the well-known sacristy.
