Italy - Stampless Letters

Picked these two up yesterday in a lot at an estate auction. Don't know what is is about Italian stampless letters (Italian states, I guess really). I'm not Italian, and certainly don't speak the language, but they are just so pretty.
Both letters were sent to the same person, Bart. Parodi (?) and look to be invoices.

First one, both sides. Sent from Milan to Genoa, in 1840, I believe.



and contents.



And the second, not quite as pretty. Sent to Genoa from Livorno in 1850



and it's contents



Kinda neat, I thought.

In 1840, Milan, was part of the Austrian province of Lombardo-Veneto, while Genoa belonged to the kigndom of Piamonte (Torino)-Sardinia. The later, was to unify Italy on the forthcoming dècades.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WOW-1698-IT...STRK:MESE:IT

Hi James you can easily buy Italian states letters back to the 1500s. I currently have in my ebay shop 1698 & 1704. I recently sold a pile of them from the 1600s. No one can read the contents but these would be merchants and the contents likely business trade contents. And many with very nice writing. I sold many that were sent to Livorno in the late 1600s over the years. They used to deliver them on Italian mounted horses. Some if your lucky still had a small piece of string attached under a paper seal. A good area to collect many folk looking for those done by Corsinni an Italian merchant.