Pietro Ermanni

…agricoltore, portando seco un infante di sesso mascolino» Born the day before — 20 August 1808, at three in the afternoon, at Mione, and named Gio: Batta Benedetto «ha pure dichiarato esser il neonato figlio di Pietro Ermanni, e di Orsola nata Crosilla jugali», farmers of Mione — a household this archive did not have Lupieri Gio: Batta, thirty-two, «medico di professione» — a physician — and Lupieri Valentino, thirty, both of Luint «Gio:…

…earlier so valuable, because that one did: «suo fratello Osvaldo». What can be said: a man of fifty-six does not carry a stranger's newborn to the town hall. And Gio: Pietro Erman de Franceschi is the son of a dead Pietro Erman — so a living Pietro Ermanni at Mione in 1808, married and with a first child, is most naturally his own son, named for his grandfather. The alternative is a brother. Inferred, and labelled so. What is documented is the household itself: Pietro Ermanni × Orsola née…

…— so a living Pietro Ermanni at Mione in 1808, married and with a first child, is most naturally his own son, named for his grandfather. The alternative is a brother. Inferred, and labelled so. What is documented is the household itself: Pietro Ermanni × Orsola née Crosilla, agricoltori of Mione, and their son Gio: Batta Benedetto, born 20 August 1808 at three in the afternoon. One more detail worth keeping: the father is entered as plain «Ermanni» while the older man signs «Erman De…