Giovanni Battista de Franceschi

…manuscripts survive? open Rino Cigui, editing Kandler's «Cenni storici di Umago» in the «Atti» for 2004, notes that Kandler was among the first to attempt a systematic history of Umago «assieme al canonico Francesco Roselli ed a Giovanni Battista de Franceschi», and describes him as «cultore di studi storici e autore della raccolta ‹Manoscritti inediti relativi alla Storia di Umago›». The man this archive knows as the leader of the Italian majority in the Diet and a deputy at Vienna for eighteen years also…

…in Istria. 1744 Aggregated to the nobility of Parenzo. (The newspaper gives 1774; the armorial 1744.) 1802 Aggregated to the Noble Council of Capodistria. 1824–25 Confirmed noble by the Emperor Francis I of Austria. 1892 Giovanni Battista de Franceschi is Podestà of Umago. 1931 The title of nobles of Capodistria recognised in the Official List of the Italian nobility. In 1669, when Candia fell to the Turks, part of Morosini's galleys took aboard the Venetian families who had asked to…

…Pola for 16 January 1895, which prints the stenographic record of the opening of the Provincial Diet of Istria at Parenzo — and a De Franceschi is running it. Il signor capitano provinciale apre la seduta e concede la facoltà di parlare all'on. Giovanni Battista de Franceschi, che a nome della maggioranza intera così si esprime… The provincial captain opens the session and gives the floor to the honourable Giovanni Battista de Franceschi, who speaks in the name of the entire majority. What he then says is that the…

…signor capitano provinciale apre la seduta e concede la facoltà di parlare all'on. Giovanni Battista de Franceschi, che a nome della maggioranza intera così si esprime… The provincial captain opens the session and gives the floor to the honourable Giovanni Battista de Franceschi, who speaks in the name of the entire majority. What he then says is that the events of the past year had so moved public opinion as to give the Italians of Istria occasion to raise before the Imperial Government their strongest complaints and most…

…on the estate lists among the mayors of Umag between 1815 and 1918 a Giovanni Battista, «studioso e collezionista di manoscritti inediti della storia umaghese» — a scholar and collector of unpublished manuscripts of the town's history. And here, in 1895, a Giovanni Battista de Franceschi leads the Italian majority of the Istrian Diet. Three sources, sixteen years apart, and on the face of it one man: the Umag branch in politics. Stated as the likely reading, not a proven identity. The Diet report gives no patronymic and no…

…lunghi anni nel Parlamento di Vienna, nella Dieta e nei Consigli delle principali nostre istituzioni, né tradì mai in nessun posto, neppur con l'ombra di un pensiero, quello che era il suo, quello che è il nostro ideale.» Special mention of Giovanni Battista de Franceschi, head of the Italian deputies in the Diet, out of the patriotic family of Seghetto, an example of courtesy and hospitality; he sat, a soldier faithful to his orders, long years in the Parliament of Vienna, in the Diet and in the councils of our…

…one of them wrote the town's history From Cigui's edition of Pietro Kandler's «Cenni storici di Umago» in the same journal, volume 34 of 2004: Kandler was among the first, «assieme al canonico Francesco Roselli ed a Giovanni Battista de Franceschi», to attempt a systematic reconstruction of Umago's past. The note on him reads: «Giovanni Battista de Franceschi, cultore di studi storici e autore della raccolta ‘Manoscritti inediti relativi alla Storia di Umago'. Fu podestà di Umago nella seconda metà…

…«Cenni storici di Umago» in the same journal, volume 34 of 2004: Kandler was among the first, «assieme al canonico Francesco Roselli ed a Giovanni Battista de Franceschi», to attempt a systematic reconstruction of Umago's past. The note on him reads: «Giovanni Battista de Franceschi, cultore di studi storici e autore della raccolta ‘Manoscritti inediti relativi alla Storia di Umago'. Fu podestà di Umago nella seconda metà dell'Ottocento.» A collector of historical studies, author of a gathering of unpublished manuscripts on…

…seconda metà dell'Ottocento.» A collector of historical studies, author of a gathering of unpublished manuscripts on the history of Umago, and mayor of the town in the second half of the nineteenth century. This archive had already identified the Giovanni Battista de Franceschi who led the Italian majority in the Istrian Diet in January 1895 as the Seghetto man, on the strength of his 1898 obituary. Here he is again, from the other side: not only a politician but a working local historian with a manuscript collection to his name.…

…and Vardabasso families of Buie who gave forty crowns to the Lega Nazionale to honour Giovanni Battista's memory; the two houses were joined by marriage. «La morte di un patriota» — 25 November 1897 This archive confirmed Giovanni Battista de Franceschi as the Seghetto man from his obituary of 1898. «Il Piccolo» of Trieste had done it four months earlier and more plainly, in the notice of his death. L'Istria nostra è nuovamente in lutto: la morte le ha rapito un altro dei suoi cittadini più…

…the man leading the Diet majority in January 1895, whose speech this archive published from the stenographic record, is the Seghetto man. And in the same issue, the small thing: forty crowns to the Lega Nazionale «per onorare la memoria del compianto Giovanni Battista de Franceschi, dalle famiglie Franco e Vardabasso di Buie». One correction to the timeline above, from the 1903 volume of the Atti e memorie della Società istriana. It says the family «trasferivasi in Istria nel 1669 ed acquistava dai…