The name of Ispani appears in a document of the viceroyal period which concerns an annotation of the Royal Chamber of Naples on the looting carried out by the pirate Dragut Pasha. The barbaresco corsair, after having sacked the nearby Policastro, set fire to and destroyed the village of Ispani which on 26 November 1557 had a hundred inhabitants; only twenty survived. In the Census of the Kingdom of Naples Ispani appears in 1595 with only 40 inhabitants, then in 1614 with 70 inhabitants and in 1660 with 50 inhabitants.