 The road was certainly used by the Roman military during the Samnite Wars of the fourth century BC.The first mention of Pizzone appears in the "Volturnense Chronicle".A few decades after the destruction at the hand of the Arab invasions of 881 AD, and at the time of the reconstruction of the Abbey of San Vincenzo al Volturno, the lord of the area decided to start populating the area between 935 and 981 with settlers from the land of the Marsi.