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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…

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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?

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