Infact Maleto, then Malalbergo,
is visited to the boundary with the "Estense"
state and for of more placed on a channel,
the Navile, that represented more for Bologna
a vital artery commercial verse Ferrara and
towards the north. The neighborhood to the
extensive boundary was an of the main causes
of the demographic increase. But the greater
impulse to the local economy stocked from
the formation of the "port" river stimulated
to the commerce also the agricultural workers
that could sell their products directly to
the markets of two town.