The Defranceschi Archive
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Camillo De Franceschi

Camillo De Franceschi, 1868–1953. Gologorica. Every mention of this name in the archive — 36 across 20 pages.

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Years1868–1953
LineOut of Carnia
Found inBiography
What the archive knows

Historian, Archivist, Irredentist

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Camillo De Franceschi, in Croatian · Camillo Romano Defranceschi

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Appears on: The Defranceschi Archive · Back to Carnia · Changes · The Candia decrees · Errands · The Lines · The Gologorica Line · Carlo's Letter · The Library in Zagreb · Carlo's Book · David's Map · The Other Franceschi · defranceski.com · The People · Open Questions · Lives on one scale · About · Seget, and Crete · Sources · The Timeline

Back to Carnia

…Two villages a mile apart in one parish, two hundred years apart in the documents, and the same road out of both. What the family did once it was there, from the Istrian encyclopedia Bertoša's entry, written out of Camillo De Franceschi's own researches, gives the Gologorica family a shape this archive had only in pieces. It also settles an argument published on this site this morning. 1661 — and the first man has a name and a trade «La prima menzione del…

…an apparatus the 1926 edition does not. Miroslav Bertoša, «De Franceschi», in «Istarska enciklopedija», Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, Zagreb 2005, in Italian and Croatian in parallel, from istrianet.org. Its stated bibliography: Camillo De Franceschi, «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino», AMSI 1963, vols 10–12; C. Pagnini, «In morte di Carlo De Franceschi», AMSI 1972–73; M. Bertoša, «Etos i etnos zavičaja», Pula and Rijeka 1985; Carlo De Franceschi, «Uspomene», Pula and Rijeka 1989. The charters…

…archive marks it as inference: it is the right shape and the right dates, and it is not proved. Gortani also has «un de Franceschi vivente nel 1421» at Luint. So the three charters sit at the end of a chain that runs: Bertoša 2005, citing Camillo De Franceschi, who never published a line on Carnia or on his own family. The citation is therefore in Camillo's working papers, and the Trieste inventory says where. Cartolare 30, «Genealogia e storia», holds his «Regesti di pergamene carniche dell'archivio Magrini di…

…Gortani, «Le vecchie famiglie di Gorto», Tolmezzo 1898. Gilberto Dell'Oste, «Carte del vicariato foraneo di Gorto in Carnia (1270–1497)», Tolmezzo 1999. Mauro Bacci, «I Ministeriali del Patriarcato di Aquileia», Padua 2003. The inventory of the Archivio Camillo De Franceschi e famiglia, SIASP Trieste. None of these is yet held by this project; all are in print and obtainable. Svetvinčenat — a third Carnian household of the name, and this archive had never looked This page has followed…

…turns up twice in one province. This archive has published both families for months and kept them apart, and now has three independent reasons to go on doing so. ⭐⭐ And there is a way to settle it — part of it is already settled Camillo De Franceschi — Carlo's son, of the Gologorica family — published «Il Consiglio nobile di Parenzo e i profughi di Creta» in the «Atti e memorie della Società istriana di archeologia e storia patria», new series volume 2, in 1952. It is a study of exactly the migration…

Changes

…L'Eco di Pola, 3 September 1887 — a de Franceschi «integerrimo deputato al Parlamento» stands godfather to a workers' society banner at Umago, beside the wife of the Podestà.· La Fiamma, 1912 — a scholarly bibliography citing Camillo De Franceschi's «Dante a Pola» (Giornale dantesco, Florence 1906) and his work on pilgrims to the Holy Sepulchre who stopped at Pola.· And two contemporary sources giving Carlo's birth year as 1810, against the register's 1809 — filed as an open question.…

…397. And a correction to the shelf. Vjesnik 18 (Zagreb, 1916) carries Milko Kos, publishing twenty unpublished Vienna parchments expressly to «fill out and in many places correct Franceschi's conclusions on the genealogy of the lords of Pazin». Camillo De Franceschi's Storia documentata is cited across this site; on the medieval lords of Pazin it must now be read beside Kos. Kos also quotes Camillo admitting he was «unfortunately not in a position to establish a complete and certain genealogy» — which is the best…

…Contea di Pisino»; and a 2022 article on the Zagreb collection. /searched/ Sept 2026 yield The society's published guide and archive inventories SIASP, Trieste (siasp-aps.org) «Archivio Camillo De Franceschi e famiglia», 26 boxes, 19th–20th century. The 2017 guide and the full 39-page inventory, both downloaded. A second complete family archive, distinct from Zagreb's. /searched/ Aug–Sept 2026 Aug–Sept…

…«Il Trecento a Trieste» (1897), illustrations for «L'Istria nobilissima», and a headpiece drawn for Camillo's Arcadia essay of 1929–30. The individual sheet records remain unread. /searched/ Sept 2026 pending Camillo De Franceschi, «Il Consiglio nobile di Parenzo e i profughi di Creta», AMSI n.s. 2 (1952). Found cited in Milena Joksimović, Tabula 17 (2020) «Atti e memorie della Società istriana», n.s. 2 (1952) — Camillo on the Cretan refugees Not digitised.…

…inside it, from Ersa in Cap Corse, first generation Pietro Franceschi 1694–1771, out through the French Caribbean to Venezuela, with not one line touching Istria. That closes the Corsica marker on the family's map. «Atti» 39 of Rovinj yields Camillo De Franceschi's Pula bibliography, including «Testamenti polesani del secolo XV con alcuni cenni sulle antiche casate patrizie di Pola» — sixteen fifteenth-century Pula wills he transcribed, which is the obvious next reading for the southern-Istrian cluster. «Istra…

…formations of the same root, recorded so the next search does not stop at them. Nothing joins either man to a line on this site; what the book proves is that two households of the name were living and trading in Trieste in 1869, twenty years before Camillo De Franceschi settled there. The directories for other years would say whether they stayed. /searched/ Sept 2026 yield «Acquisitions» has sat on this project's research log as a wish list for months. DAPA publishes a current…

…what cannot be done from here is read them. The Zadar paper of 1840 is the one to open first. /searched/ Sept 2026 yield A queued item finally worked: the site's page of his selected works IstriaNet — Camillo De Franceschi's collected bibliography Forty-five entries between 1898 and 1964, with volumes and pages, compiled from the Italian librarians' biographical database and the Trieste civic library catalogue. Three land on questions open on this site today.…

…converted and searched «Hrvati i Karolinzi» — the 2000 exhibition catalogue, OCR'd No person of the name, and none expected — the catalogue is about the ninth century. But the surname is in it three times, and every one of them is Camillo De Franceschi in the bibliography, cited for his 1932 and 1933 work on the early-medieval church sculpture of Pula and Sv. Ivan od Nimfeja, alongside Gnirs, Marušić, Šonje and Rapanić. Sixty-seven years after he published, the standard national catalogue of Croatia's…

…Jadranski zbornik XI (1979–81), pp. 293–307 A summary of the whole published Kobler correspondence. /searched/ — pending Not yet obtained Gentileo, «Bibliografia degli scritti di Camillo De Franceschi», AMSI 55 (1954) Camillo's full published bibliography. /searched/ — pending Not yet obtained Camillo de Franceschi, «Povijest Pazinske knežije na temelju isprava» (Pazin 2023)…

…«Le cap Corse: généalogies et destins» (2006) The reference work for Cap Corse families; would settle whether the Tomino Defranceschi are in it. /searched/ — pending Not yet obtained Camillo De Franceschi, «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino», AMSI 1963 vols 10–12 The authority the Istarska enciklopedija cites for the Agrons charters. 516 pages. Republished in Croatian translation at Pazin in 2023. The highest-value unheld book after the…

The Candia decrees

…of the other four, and this archive will not guess. grant Sixty households, allotted before they arrived ⭐⭐⭐ The council: admitted, disputed, and settled by decree This is the question in the title of Camillo De Franceschi's 1952 paper — the one document this archive has spent a month trying to obtain. The answer is one sentence of a volume printed in 1904. 1673, ottobre 26 c. 258 Il Provveditore alla Sanità in Istria affitti le case…

Errands

…annata 1859, contenente la voce «Famiglia Franceschi», insieme al frontespizio del volume. err/biblioteca-civica-archivio-z-cd539c n medium Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica, Zagreb Shelf list for the Camillo De Franceschi bibliography Gentileo, «Bibliografia degli scritti di Camillo De Franceschi», AMSI; Camillo De Franceschi, «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino» Camillo is the second historian of this family and this archive holds almost…

…del volume. err/biblioteca-civica-archivio-z-cd539c n medium Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica, Zagreb Shelf list for the Camillo De Franceschi bibliography Gentileo, «Bibliografia degli scritti di Camillo De Franceschi», AMSI; Camillo De Franceschi, «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino» Camillo is the second historian of this family and this archive holds almost nothing of him — no portrait, and none of his own writing read at first hand. The…

…n medium Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica, Zagreb Shelf list for the Camillo De Franceschi bibliography Gentileo, «Bibliografia degli scritti di Camillo De Franceschi», AMSI; Camillo De Franceschi, «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino» Camillo is the second historian of this family and this archive holds almost nothing of him — no portrait, and none of his own writing read at first hand. The bibliography is the map to the rest.…

…two titles, and whether either is digitised. Sent 14 September 2026 from David's own account (thread 1a09e08b4e206bd2). Awaiting a reply. Poštovani, molim podatke o primjercima i signaturama za: Gentileo, «Bibliografia degli scritti di Camillo De Franceschi» (AMSI), te Camillo De Franceschi, «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino». Zanima me i je li išta od toga digitalizirano. sent err/nacionalna-i-sveu-ili-na-knj-24ab0f n medium Sveučilišna knjižnica u Puli…

…is digitised. Sent 14 September 2026 from David's own account (thread 1a09e08b4e206bd2). Awaiting a reply. Poštovani, molim podatke o primjercima i signaturama za: Gentileo, «Bibliografia degli scritti di Camillo De Franceschi» (AMSI), te Camillo De Franceschi, «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino». Zanima me i je li išta od toga digitalizirano. sent err/nacionalna-i-sveu-ili-na-knj-24ab0f n medium Sveučilišna knjižnica u Puli (Naučna biblioteka) The…

…villages are Zrenj, Čepić, Šalež, Nugla, Grimalda, Crnica, Sočerga and Kodolje — not Šterna and not Sovinjak, which are the two places this family is actually documented in. The surname occurs in the article only as citations of Carlo and Camillo De Franceschi, the historians, caught disagreeing with one another in print. Still to read: the Buzetski zbornik article, which is about the fief's villages specifically and may reach further south. Nothing further. The request was answered in full and…

The Lines

…all, and its six appearances are all as godparents, five of them labelled «of Gologorica». The descent is not in doubt; where its earliest evidence sits is. The sweep is here. This archive's own family, and Carlo and Camillo De Franceschi's. /story/ svetvincenat Svetvinčenat — the castle the name never left inf var(--r-istria, var(--teal)) Carnia, inferred and not documented. Kandler's list of the Carnian families…

The Gologorica Line

…probably arose only in the nineteenth century. Its evidence is a man of this surname: in 1795 Pietro De Franceschi of Gollogorizza, marrying at Valle, gives only the Croatian name, «perché il nome italiano Moncalvo sembra non esistesse ancora». Camillo De Franceschi — Carlo's son, and the historian of the County of Pisino — is quoted in the same footnote calling Gologorizza «una delle prime località abitate dell'Istria che abbiano avuto nome slavo», one of the first inhabited places in Istria to have borne a Slavic…

Carlo's Letter

…von Carlo De Franceschi, Camillo, hervor. Diese Autoren begriffen die slawischen Bevölkerungsgruppen als Usurpatoren einer natürlichen Ordnung, die sich dadurch auszeichnete, dass ihre Territorien von einem superioren Volk zivilisiert wurden.» Benussi and Camillo De Franceschi understood the Slav population as usurpers of a natural order in which their territory had been civilised by a superior people. That is the son who published his father's memoirs in 1926. And what the surveillance was actually like…

Carlo's Book

…volume of the «Archeografo Triestino»; noticed also in «Il Piccolo» of 16 April 1926. Both read from the Internet Archive's run of the paper, September 2026. The book: Carlo De Franceschi, «Memorie autobiografiche», with preface, notes and appendices by Camillo De Franceschi, Archeografo Triestino / Lloyd Triestino, Trieste 1926, about 300 pp. The bibliography of Carlo's works is from istrianet.org. And then it was found, free, in an afternoon The section above was written saying this archive…

David's Map

…Padua, then opened a notary office in Rovinj. There he married Caterina Bembo (from the family of the Istr http://istra.lzmk.hr/clanak.aspx?id=674 istra.lzmk.hr Poreč 45.22716, 13.59474, on Camillo De Franceschi Birth was here Carlo De Franceschi spent a lot of time here devoted to Retired at the end of '76, he was able to devote himself to his favorite country history studies in Parenzo and Moncalvo di Pisino, where he permanently resided in the last years…

The Other Franceschi

…— see the register of the dead. And he is still cited: Egidio Ivetic writes that for medieval Istria one must rely on Benussi, Carlo De Franceschi and De Vergottini. carlo-de-franceschi carlo-portrait camillo Camillo De Franceschi 1868–1953 Poreč· Trieste· Venice History, archives Carlo's youngest child, and the one who turned the family's history-writing into a profession. Archivist and historian of Venezia Giulia; he edited the…

defranceski.com

…letters patent http://chan.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/ Where the Napoleonic titles of Defrance and Franceschi-Delonne are registered. Regional and community Istra County https://www.istra-istria.hr/hr/ Istrianet — Camillo De Franceschi https://www.istrianet.org/istria/illustri/defranceschi/camillo/ The two portrait photographs of Camillo are here. Istria–Fiume–Dalmatia, Italian biographies http://istria-fiume-dalmatia.blogspot.com/p/italian-biographies-istria.html…

The People

…then Trieste 1848 Statistica Agraria dell'Istria Annuario della Società Agraria Istriana Gologorica parish registers, Pazin Records Office microfilm ZM34K-214 and ZM34K-215 camillo-de-franceschi Camillo De Franceschi born died porec gologorica Historian Archivist Irredentist documented Carlo's youngest child. Imprisoned at twenty-one for a firecracker in a Trieste square; died…

The Defranceschi Archive

…1807, 1830, books digitised BA Poreč MU Potpićan ŽU Pićan porec Poreč Parenzo istria 45.23, 13.6, Poreč Poreč-Pula Where Camillo De Franceschi was born in 1868, and where his father published L'Istria in 1879. The Gologorica branch reached Poreč before it reached Crikvenica. It is also the seat of the diocesan archive that holds the later registers for half the parishes in this…

Open Questions

…Christoforus Francisci quondam Johannis gismanus de Carnia». These are the oldest documents anywhere that touch this family, and they carry it back four hundred years before the Gologorica house. Bertoša attributes all three explicitly to the researches of Camillo De Franceschi — so the citation is Camillo's, not his, and the trail runs through Camillo before it runs to Udine. Three lines at once. First, Camillo's «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino», AMSI 1963 vols 10–12, which is the encyclopedia's own cited…

Seget, and Crete

…led the fleet to its last victories, in the expeditions of 1769 and 1784 against the Barbary corsairs. Pietro Kandler 1805–1872 The Triestine father of Istrian historiography — and, two generations later, the scholarly predecessor of Carlo and Camillo De Franceschi of the other Istrian branch. Giacomo 1808 Member of the General Council of the Department of Istria. Giorgio 1866 A physician; volunteered in the Risorgimento campaigns with Garibaldi. Giovanni Battista, Francesco,…

…came as refugees to Šišan, and in the period following the loss of Candia (1669) some 60 families were granted houses in Poreč, while several families arrived in Pula.» ⚠⚠ And the footnote on that sentence cites «De Franceschi 1952» — Camillo De Franceschi, «Il Consiglio nobile di Parenzo e i profughi di Creta», AMSI n.s. 2 (1952), pages 57–115. The standard account of what happened to the Cretan refugees at Poreč was written by this family's own historian, a professional archivist,…

The Timeline

…at Moncalvo, 16 October year Carlo elected deputy for Pisino to the Imperial Constituent Parliament year Carlo expelled from the imperial magistrature as 'a known apostle of Mazzini' year Camillo De Franceschi born at Parenzo, 3 August year Camillo sentenced to two years for irredentist activity year Treaty of Rapallo — Istria to Italy year 25 Defranceschi families counted in Istria, 1 October…

The Library in Zagreb

…Lines page already says Corsica is not this family; here is the proof, written by a Franceschi. «Atti» of the Centro di ricerche storiche di Rovigno, vol. 39 Rovinj 2009, 740 pp. 120 hits Every hit is Camillo De Franceschi cited as the authority on Pula — Carlo's son, of this archive's own Gologorica family — and it hands over a bibliography this site did not have: «La popolazione di Pola nel secolo XV e nei seguenti» (Archeografo Triestino, ser. III vol. III fasc. 2,…

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