Livorno Gen[ealogy]

Tracing Lives, Reconnecting Stories — Genealogical Research in Italy and Worldwide

Matteo Giunti

Angelica Palli: una questione di calendari… — The recent unveiling of a plaque for the 150th anniversary of the death of Angelica Palli (1798-1875) at the Famedio di Montenero in Livorno prompted us to check her exact dates of birth and death, as we always do. Let us say at once that the dates are correct; still, […]

Angelica Palli: a question of calendars…

October 28, 2025 in Corrected dates / English / Genealogical Culture by Matteo Giunti

VIDEO: Conferenza “L’antico cimitero degli Inglesi di Livorno: storia, documenti e sepolture significative”, di Matteo Giunti — The recording of Matteo Giunti’s lecture (in Italian) on the Old English Cemetery of Livorno: the history of the cemetery in Via Verdi, the archival records and some of its most significant burials.

VIDEO: Lecture “The Old English Cemetery of Livorno: history, records ...

May 10, 2025 in Cemeteries / Documentaries / English by Matteo Giunti

VIDEO: Conferenza “Gli Inglesi a Livorno: intrecci culturali e matrimoniali”, Livorno 28 maggio 2024 – di Matteo Giunti — The recording of Matteo Giunti’s lecture (in Italian) given in Livorno on 28 May 2024 on the English in Livorno: cultural exchanges and intermarriage between the British community and the city.

VIDEO: Lecture “The English in Livorno: cultural and marital ties”, ...

June 6, 2024 in Cemeteries / English by Matteo Giunti

Pubblicazione: Evidenze d’archivio sulle famiglie Modigliani e Garsin. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi 2020. — INTRODUCTION Approaching the biography of Amedeo Modigliani a hundred years after his death, one might think there is very little left to add to the vast literature on the subject. Looking at the most widely read texts, one finds a substantial uniformity of views, based on the same body of […]

Publication: Archival evidence on the Modigliani and Garsin families. Proceedings ...

February 7, 2023 in Corrected dates / English / Genealogical Culture / Genealogies / Publications by Matteo Giunti

Dall’immagine all’identità/4: Ritratto del piccolo Guibert per lo zio Polidoro — “A mon oncle Polydore. Henry Guibert.” (To my uncle Polydore, Henry Guibert). Images: Di Chiara collection, Rome. This article builds on our previous article on the Guibert family. A few weeks after that first article, our friend the collector Mario Di Chiara tracked down the Bartolena studio photograph shown above […]

From image to identity/4: Portrait of the young Guibert for ...

January 31, 2023 in English / Genealogies / Techniques by Matteo Giunti

Giuseppe Maria Cambini: note genealogiche sulla famiglia allargata. — Federico Marri’s very recent paper, which finally solves the long-standing mystery of the birth of the well-known composer and violinist Giuseppe Maria Cambini (born in Montelupo Fiorentino, not in Livorno, on 8 April 1746), prompted us to publish these brief genealogical notes, gathered while trying to find out more about […]

Giuseppe Maria Cambini: genealogical notes on his extended family

January 28, 2023 in English / Genealogies by Matteo Giunti

Dall’immagine all’identità/3 – “Sofia e Ida Kauffmann, Livorno, 1881” — Introduction by Mario Di Chiara, historical and genealogical research by Matteo Giunti. For a general introduction, see the first “episode” of this series: From image to identity/1 – The Recouly-Roux and Vernière families in Livorno. INTRODUCTION The author of this photograph, Ugo Bettini, had been the most respected professional photographer […]

From image to identity/3 – “Sofia and Ida Kauffmann, Livorno, ...

January 27, 2023 in Cemeteries / English / Genealogies / Techniques by Matteo Giunti

Introduction by Mario Di Chiara, historical and genealogical research by Matteo Giunti. For a general introduction, see the first “episode” of this series: From image to identity/1 – The Recouly-Roux and Vernière families in Livorno. The recent discovery, in the Genoa area, of two nineteenth-century cartes de visite (cdv) from […]

From image to identity/2 – The Guibert family in Livorno

December 6, 2022 in English / Genealogies / Techniques by Matteo Giunti

Giacomo Lumbroso chi? — Prompted by the recent and interesting article by our friend Silvia Menicagli in WSI, we went back to the research carried out some time ago on the Modigliani, Garsin and related families, commissioned first by the collector Mario Di Chiara and then by the Institut Restellini. Back then, the Modigliani […]

Giacomo Lumbroso who?

September 25, 2021 in English / Genealogical Culture / Genealogies / Techniques by Matteo Giunti

Today, 18 July 2021, is the 378th anniversary of the death of the Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy, who died and was buried in Livorno on 18 July 1643, and not on the 12th or the 19th, as his biographies state. Before this discovery of ours, the Treccani encyclopaedia gave the […]

François Duquesnoy: the true date of his death

July 18, 2021 in Corrected dates / English by Matteo Giunti