In early 1800 Giorgio Gallesio (1839) described the
"Uva Albarola or Bianchetta del Genovesato” accompanying his text with an
amazing picture from Daniele Del Re, that beautifully depicts the true
characters of this varieties. Gallesio was well informed about the synonymy of
the Albarola from the Cinque Terre (in the eastern Liguria) and the Bianchetta
from Genoa area. This true synonymy has been later refused by Dell’Olio and
Macaluso (1965), who claimed the two varieties were different. As a consequence
of this study the two grapes were separately registered in the Italian
Catalogue, but later evidences brought
them back to the same variety (Schneider et
al., 1993). As to other ancient quotations, the ”Albarola trebbiana” is
mentioned by Acerbi’s correspondent G. Guidoni (1825) among the grapes from
Cinque Terre (La Spezia province of Liguria region).