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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…

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