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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

Dall’immagine all’identità/1 – La famiglia Recouly-Roux e i Vernière a Livorno — Introduction by Mario Di Chiara, historical and genealogical research by Matteo Giunti. The invention of photography gave the need for self-representation an innovative tool which, in terms of immediacy and affordability, soon surpassed the traditional practice of the painted portrait. From the second half of the nineteenth century, ever wider […]

From image to identity/1 – The Recouly-Roux and Vernière families ...

May 20, 2021 in English / Genealogies by Matteo Giunti

The importance of women in our genealogies — When people ask me how to find out more about their ancestors, what they often really have in mind is researching their grandfathers on the paternal side of the family to discover how far back they can get with their surname. We need to remember that our surname is a […]

The importance of women in our genealogies

May 1, 2021 in English / Genealogical Culture by Matteo Giunti

Livorno: Two or three things I know about her… — “Livorno: due o tre cose che so di lei…” (original title) is a documentary on Livornese identities created by SANTIFANTI for the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the city of Livorno (1606-2006). The genealogical research started in 1999 by Matteo Giunti (this website’s creator) guides us through the history […]

Livorno: Two or three things I know about her…

April 25, 2021 in Documentaries / English / Genealogies by Matteo Giunti

Rai Storia: Livorno the City of Nations — In 2017 I had the pleasure and honor to be interviewed for this documentary on the international history of Livorno, broadcasted by the italian channel Rai Storia. The video below is from the YouTube channel of my association “Livorno delle Nazioni“. If you need to, you can turn on the […]

Rai Storia: Livorno the City of Nations

April 23, 2021 in Documentaries / English by Matteo Giunti