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Edgar Degas, La famiglia Bellelli (1858-1869), Parigi, Musée d'Orsay — Much is known about the Italian family of Edgar Degas (1834-1917), above all thanks to Riccardo Raimondi’s book Degas e la sua famiglia in Napoli (Naples, 1958) and to the studies of Jean Sutherland Boggs. Yet, going back to the original records, some details need correcting, and there is a […]

Genealogical notes on Edgar Degas’s family: a grandmother from Livorno ...

November 2, 2026 in English / Genealogical Culture / Genealogies by Matteo Giunti

Baptism registers, 17th century — Many of the people who write to us from the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Australia or France arrive with the same question: “My great-grandfather was Tuscan. How can I find out where he came from?” Often they have a name, a surname spelled in several different ways, perhaps a photograph […]

How to trace your Tuscan ancestors from abroad: a practical ...

November 2, 2026 in English / Genealogical Culture / Techniques by Matteo Giunti

Matrimoni “circensi” a Livorno nel 1840 — Quite by chance we came across a page of the civil marriage registers of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, for the Cathedral parish of Livorno, that certainly deserves a short article. It is October 1840, a month in which no fewer than four marriages took place, one after another, between […]

“Circus” marriages in Livorno in 1840

May 20, 2026 in Curiosities / English / Genealogies by Matteo Giunti

Giovanni March (1894-1974): ascendenza paterna e origini greche. — Much has already been written about the painter Giovanni March, especially his life and artistic career, but little has been said about his family origins, apart from a few scant details about his father and mother and a vague “of Livorno origin”. So we think it worth clarifying once and […]

Giovanni March (1894-1974): paternal ancestry and Greek origins

May 18, 2026 in Curiosities / English / Genealogies by Matteo Giunti

I miei antenati greci: filo genealogico ascendente — I don’t only work on my clients’ genealogies: every now and then I go back to digging into my own ancestors, even though I have already found a great deal in more than 25 years of research. In this post I would like to show one particular line of my […]

My Greek ancestors: a line of ascent

January 12, 2026 in Curiosities / English / Genealogies by 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