Books, articles and dissertations — including several written by members of this family.
Parenzo, 1879 archive.org/details/listrianotestor00frangoog
The family's own historian on his own country: 524 pages, published at Parenzo by Gaetano Coana and dedicated «alla gioventù dell'Istria». Read here end to end in September 2026 from the Internet Archive's scan. It is the source for the Seget estate's chain of owners and the Cretan origin of that branch, for the whole shape of the diocese of Pedena in which Gallignana and Gologorica sat, and for the 1764 roll of colonist families on the Seget lands. It is also, and importantly, silent about Carnia.
p. 363 — the Seghetto and Giuba estate, Cuchich 1604, Valier 1623, and the de Franceschi «emigrata dall'isola di Candia»p. 363–364, footnote 3 — Giambattista de Franceschi, deputy to the Imperial Council, and the roll of 30 April 1764p. 484 — the parishes of the diocese of Pedena, and the chapter at Gallignana with its archpriestp. 173 — the disputed appointment to the pieve of Gallignana, 1324–1335p. 328–329 — the siege of Gallignana, May 1617p. 205 — Francesco Claj, priest of Gallignana, and the Croatian translations, 1 January 1563
Free and complete online, which the archive had not realised. The OCR text layer is poor — accents garbled, words split at line ends, footnotes badly mangled — so page references above are approximate to the printed pagination shown in the scan, and anyone quoting should open the image.
«Lettere di Carlo De Franceschi a Giovanni Kobler»
Atti e Memorie della Società Istriana, 1928
The letters in which Carlo, about 1873, sets out what his family believed about itself: that it came from Carnia and settled in Istria «intorno al 1700»; that De Franceschi still lived at Mione and Muina; that his trisavolo Giambattista built the 1711 house at Gologorica; and the blazon of the family arms.
The single most important narrative source in this archive.
Held. A copy is in this project's source library: texts/1978 Kobler - Memorie per la storia della citta di Fiume (Atti Rovigno 3) FULL TEXT.txt
Camillo De Franceschi, «Storia documentata della Contea di Pisino»
ed. Carlo de Franceschi, Venice 1964
Carlo's son on the county the family lived in — still the standard work. With his editions of the Labin statutes, the Piran chartulary and «Gli Artizoni di Parenzo».
Some of the primary sources Camillo used were destroyed in the Second World War and its aftermath. For those documents his articles are now the only witness.
Unione degli Istriani www.unioneistriani.it
The armorial of Venezia Giulia. Its entry «Franceschi (De) — Pisino, Moncalvo, Pola» names Carlo and Camillo and gives the family's arms; a separate entry covers the Seghetto, Capodistria and Umago branch, and others the Capodistria and Ližnjan families.
Blasonario_D.pdfBlasonario_F.pdf
The blazon of the Moncalvo arms is credited to «(C. de F.)» — Carlo himself — with Benedetti and de Totto supplying the tinctures. It formalises his testimony rather than confirming it independently.
Petar Puhmajer, «Stancija de Franceschi u Segetu kod Umaga»
Ministarstvo kulture RH, Zagreb 2019, ISBN 978-953-312-048-5
The conservation monograph on the Seget estate: how it was bought from the Valier in 1720, how the house was built and rebuilt, and the two Istrian branches.
Held. A copy is in this project's source library: articles/2015 Prostor 23 - (Puhmajer, Seget stancija).pdf
storia&ricerca, issue 134, 23 May 2020, Rijeka www.lavoce.hr
The Italian-language daily of Rijeka on the Seget estate: the county in Crete, the 1538 defence of Calus, Lemiores and Sabionera, the shipwreck of 1669, the hundred thousand ducats of 1716, the library of four thousand volumes and its destruction, and the arms on the tympanum. Photographs by Gianfranco Abrami.
Where it and the Blasonario disagree on a date, the armorial is preferred and the difference is stated.
Deborah Howard, «Titian's Portraits of Grand Chancellor Andrea de' Franceschi»
The life of Andrea de' Franceschi, born 1473, Grand Chancellor of Venice from 15 September 1529 until his death in 1552, buried at Santi Giovanni e Paolo — his embassies, his will and its five codicils, and the Titian portraits he left his nephew.
Josip Banić, «Venetian Istria in the Embrace of a Nascent Dominium (c. 1381 – c. 1470)»
Doctoral dissertation, Central European University, 2021
A modern historian's verdict on Camillo: one of three figures who «tower» over Istrian medieval studies, and the only surviving witness to sources lost in the war. Quotes Egidio Ivetic that for medieval Istria one must rely on Benussi, Carlo De Franceschi and De Vergottini.
Rovinj www.crsrv.org
Catalogues the paintings in the chapel of Stancija Seghetto — formerly Villa De Franceschi — and records their poor condition; and a Pentecost whose patron Antonio Alisi identified as «un de Franceschi nobile di Seghetto».
Libellarium 15 (2), 2024, pp. 25–46 — University of Zadar doi.org/10.15291/libellarium.4520
The paper that told this archive its subject's library still exists. Written by the librarian of the Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica in Zagreb who catalogued the collection. It establishes that the books and family archive of the De Franceschi of Gologorica reached the NSK after 1945, stood unprocessed for over fifty years, and now hold 2,480 catalogued items under the shelfmark PDF — Poklon De Franceschi — together with fourteen boxes and seven folders of family archive containing Carlo's and Camillo's manuscript drafts, the family correspondence, estate papers, photographs and an album.
2,480 items: 138 serials and 2,341 monographs, 1503–1945«pronađena izbačena iz ormara i razbacana po kući» — found in 1945 thrown out of the cupboards and scattered about the houseGiulio De Franceschi, painter, Rijeka 1856 – Gologorica 1942Seventeen stamped ex libris of Tomaso Luciani (Labin 1818 – Venice 1894)217 of 2,341 books carry any ownership mark — the family used signatures, never a bookplate
Open access and free. The ResearchGate copy is behind a bot check; the journal's own PDF at morepress.unizd.hr is not. In Croatian, with an English abstract.
Held. A copy is in this project's source library: articles/2024 Marin - Oznake vlasnistva Knjiznica obitelji De Franceschi, Libellarium 15(2).pdf
Arhivski vjesnik 67 (2024), pp. 189–211 doi.org/10.36506/av.67.7
The published inventory of the family archive, shelfmark PDF 2.337 — fourteen boxes and nine folders, described box by box by the three librarians who arranged them. It is the document this archive was about to write to Zagreb to ask for. Among what it lists: the household accounts of Gologorica for 1925–26 and 1929–30; a lease of the second floor of the house to the parish priest in 1907; the photograph album; five boxes of correspondence including Carlo's «Lettere archeologiche a Pietro Kandler»; the personal papers of Carlo, Camillo, Gian Pietro and Giulio; and the architect's plan of the family chapel in the cemetery at Gologorica.
Shelfmark PDF 2.337 — 14 boxes and 9 folders, material from the 18th century to 1943Box 6 — the photograph album, and «Maria De Franceschi, Parenzo, 187[?]»Boxes 7–11 — «Lettere archeologiche a Pietro Kandler»; Camillo to his sister Faustina, 1886–1893Box 12 — «Cappella della famiglia di Carlo de Franceschi nel cimitero di Moncalvo di Pisino», by the architect Giuseppe HirschFolder 6 — «Nelle fauste occasioni delle nozze Maria De Franceschi — Luigi Salamon, Pola, 25 ottobre 1897»
Open access at ojs.srce.hr. Croatian, with an English abstract. Found through Crossref after ResearchGate refused this session.
Held. A copy is in this project's source library: archives/2024 Marin Jurisic Matijaca - Arhiv obitelji De Franceschi NSK Zagreb, Arhivski vjesnik 67.pdf
Vjesnik historijskih arhiva u Rijeci i Pazinu XXI (1977), XXII (1978), and part III hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/187555
Kobler's side of the correspondence — the letters Carlo was answering — edited and published in three parts. Sixteen years of letters between two men who, Jelinčić notes, never managed to meet. It contains Kobler's inventory of the Defranceschi households of Fiume, his question «È forse Lei un Discendente?», and the record of Valentino Defranceschi, come from Carnia and made a citizen of Fiume in 1739.
Valentino Defranceschi, «venuto dalla Carnia», citizen of Fiume 1739; the Chapel of St Helen, 1764; his tomb in the Duomo, epigraph 1785Giovanni Antonio De Franceschi, doctor of law and municipal chancellor, d. 1727Giovanni Battista Defranceschi, come from the County of Pisino about 1740
Open access on Hrčak, free. Italian letters with a Croatian editorial apparatus.
Held. A copy is in this project's source library: articles/1977, 1978 and 1981 Jelincic - Korespondencija Kobler-De Franceschi I-III, VHARP 21, 22, 24.pdf
Vjesnik istarskog arhiva 32 hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/494160
The parish chronicle of Gologorica for 1892–1918, as kept by the parish priest Ljudevit Žváček — on the national-political, moral-religious, economic-social and ethnographic life of the village. Žváček is the same priest to whom Giulio and Camillo de Franceschi let the second floor of their house in 1907. Croatian, with Italian and English versions of the article.
Open access on Hrčak. Not yet read in detail by this archive.
Held. A copy is in this project's source library: articles/Trogrlic - Gologorica u Kronici Zupe 1892-1918, VIA 32.pdf
Miroslav Bertoša, «Gologorički De Franceschi: između etosa i etnosa»
in «Etos i etnos zavičaja», Čakavski sabor, Pula – Rijeka 1985, pp. 177–253
Seventy-six pages on the De Franceschi of Gologorica by one of Croatia's leading historians of Istria — «between ethos and ethnos», on a family that was Friulian-Carnian in origin and Italian-national in politics, in a village that was Croatian in speech. It is the standing scholarly account of the household this archive's Gologorica registers reconstruct, and it is the source Trogrlić leans on for the statement that the family settled there in the seventeenth century.
«furlansko-karnijske obitelji De Franceschi, koja se naselila u Gologoricu još u 17. st.» — quoted by Trogrlić«Wallungen der Akkulturation» in the second half of the 19th century — Bertoša's conclusion, as reported by Daniela Simon (2024), who points to pp. 225 and 228
Still not read by this archive. It is a 1985 book chapter and not online; it would have to come from a Croatian library or by interlibrary loan. Daniela Simon's 2024 monograph cites it as «Bertoša, Miroslav: Etos i etnos zavičaja, Pula/Rijeka 1985, S. 177–253, insb. S. 225, 228», which is the sharpest pointer we have to the pages that matter. It remains the most important single thing still unread.
Prostor 23 (2015) 2, pp. 208–221 — Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/220895
The first study anyone has made of how Gračišće grew — the family's own parish. It locates the bishop of Pedena's palace in the village, and the Salamon palace built facing it; and its source list points at the Franciscan cadastre of Gallignana of about 1820 at Trieste, and at the published urbaria of the County of Pazin of 1498 and the sixteenth century.
«Gotovo istovremeno nasuprot biskupskoj rezidenciji gradi se palača Salamon»ASTr, Catasto franceschino, Distretto di Pisino, Comune di Gallignana d'Istria, foglio IV sezione IV
Open access on Hrčak. Its Franceschi citations are all to Carlo's book of 1879 and Camillo's of 1964.
Croatica Christiana Periodica IV (1980), no. 6 archive.org/details/izvjestaji_picanskih_biskupa_svetoj_stolici_1589-1780-ivan_grah_1980
Every report the bishops of Pićan (Pedena) sent to Rome between 1589 and 1780, summarised from the Vatican archive. Pedena was the diocese of Gallignana and Gologorica, and the bishop was the temporal lord of Gologorica from about 1600. The reports give the lordship, the colonus tenants and what was done to them, the diocese's revenue, the names and ages of the clergy, and the replacement of the Glagolitic liturgy with Latin.
Bishop Zara, 1606 and 1614 — lordship of Gologorica «lately» acquiredBishop Aldrago, 1770s — «gospodar Gologorice, Škopljaka i Tupljaka»1656 and 1661 — Juraj Kukurin, parish priest of Gologorica, aged 52The fifteen colonus families of Tupljak, sold for sixty florins of tax
Free full text on the Internet Archive. The De Franceschi in its footnotes are Carlo and Camillo, cited as authorities; no member of this family appears in the text itself.
Udine, Forum, 2010 archive.org/details/ferigo-le-cifre-le-anime
The collected demographic history of Carnia by the historian who did the work on its migration. It quotes the headmen's return of 1679 in full — the document this archive's whole Carnia argument rests on — and states that the men listed in it are weavers. It also traces the «strada dei furlani» into Istria from a weaver's-shop purchase at Montona in 1511 and a Carnian's will dictated at Pedena in 1540.
p. 100 — «da Mione, Zuane De Franceschi con un suo fiolo, Zuane d'Erman: questi tre nell'Istria, luogo imperiale»«onde dire cargnel in Istria equivaleva a dire tessitore»The 1679 return covers only the imperial county and undercounts
Free full text on the Internet Archive. Ferigo died in 2007; this is the posthumous collection.
Prace Komisji Językowej nr 17, Polska Akademja Umiejętności, Kraków 1930 archive.org/details/kpbc.umk.pl.Magazyn_236_09_HD_007_181344
A dialect atlas of Slavic Istria with six maps, made by a Polish Slavist in the 1920s. Both of this family's parishes are survey points: Gologorica as I, 3 and Gračišće as I, 2, a — different dialect groups. It records actual words from each. It also states, against the assumption this archive had been carrying, that Moncalvo is the older name of Gologorica and the Slavic name replaced it around 1102.
Gologorica (Moncalvo di Pisino I 3) — pp. 27, 49, 60, 68–9, 72, 130Gračišće (Gallignana I 2a) — pp. 6, 18, 51, 60–3, 65–6, 131p. 130 — «nazwę Gologorica zamiast dawniejszej Moncalvo»The Čepić dialect wedge, cut off from its centre by the Istro-Romanian villages
Free on the Internet Archive, from the Toruń university library copy. Written in Polish; the dialect data are in Małecki's own phonetic transcription and are quoted here as printed.
Rovinj–Rovigno / Trieste, 1970– ; 53 volumes archive.org/search?query=%22Centro+di+ricerche+storiche%22+Rovigno
The scholarly journal of Istrian history, published by the Italian research centre at Rovinj. The complete run from 1970 to 2024 is free on the Internet Archive, along with the monographs of the Collana degli Atti. It edits and prints archival material — parish registers, cadastres, town statutes — as well as articles, which is why a marriage entry from Valle in 1795 naming a De Franceschi of Gologorizza is findable in it.
vol. 3 (1972) — the registers of Valle; the marriage of Piero De Franceschi of Gollogorizza and Anna Bembo, 22 January 1795vol. 3 (1972) — Moncalvo as a nineteenth-century name for Gologorizza, and the confusion with Golaš near Vallevol. 4 (1973) — Cervani and Ettore De Franceschi on depopulation in Venetian Istriavol. 15 (1997) — «La popolazione dell'Istria nell'età moderna»
Downloaded in full (53 volumes, about 75 MB of text) and searched in September 2026. The bulk of «De Franceschi» hits are citations of Carlo and of his son Camillo as authorities; the scan reported here filtered those out and looked only for the surname standing near this family's places.
Atti del Centro di ricerche storiche di Rovigno, vol. XXXIV (2004), pp. 473–494 archive.org/details/AttiRovigno34-2004
Twenty-two pages on the exact migration this family made, built from the parish and notarial books in the state archive at Pazin. It names the Cargnelli, distinguishes the pedlars from the home weavers, shows them buying vineyards in the eighteenth century and being written down as «D.no» for the first time — and lists a Dominus Vittorio De Franceschi among the Carnian landowners of Sanvincenti.
«D.no Vittorio De Franceschi, D.no Valentin Lupieri, D.no Antonio Fabris» — Sanvincenti, later 18th c.The D.no title as a mark of new stratification among Carnian immigrantsDescendants of Gio. Batta Giorgis of Mione still at San Pietro in Selve in 1945
Free on the Internet Archive as part of the complete run of the Atti.
Collana degli Atti del Centro di ricerche storiche di Rovigno, n. 15 (1997), 450 pp. archive.org/details/RovignoAtti-15-1997
The standard demographic history of early-modern Istria, counting hearths province by province from 1508. It gives Gallignana at a hundred and fifty hearths in 1508 — equal largest in the Habsburg county with Pisino — the collapse of the 1520s, and the trebling by the urbarium of 1571 that is the shape of the repopulation.
1508 hearth count — Gallignana and Pisino, 150 hearths each1531 — Pisino down from 150 to 861571 urbarium — Gallignana 258 families, Pedena 60 to nearly 2001510 and 1615–17 — Gallignana holds against Venice both times
Free on the Internet Archive. The underlying hearth lists and urbaria are Ivetic's sources; none has been consulted directly here.
Rovinj–Rovigno, 1991– archive.org/details/LaRicerca42-43
The centre's bulletin, shorter and more local than the Atti. Numbers 42–43 of December 2004 carry a survey of the noble estates of the Umago country, half of it on the de Franceschi of Seghetto, built from the archives of Trieste, Pazin and Rijeka: the Venetian war pension of 1674, the walled estate, the library of three thousand volumes, the tenants' brass band, the brickworks that stamped its bricks, and the tomb with the family arms in the cemetery at Umago.
nn. 42–43 (2004) — the de Franceschi of Seghetton. 60 (2011) — the Vinodol chamber administration seated at Cirquenizzan. 67 (2015) — the reprint of Joso Defranceski's book on the war camps
Free on the Internet Archive.
Histoire Bd. 218, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2024 — open access, CC BY www.transcript-verlag.de/shopMedia/openaccess/pdf/oa9783839471548.pdf
A monograph on cultural hybridity in Istria in exactly the decades this family's last Istrian generation lived through, built largely on «Naša Sloga» and on the Trieste and Pazin archives. It gives the scholarly account of Carlo De Franceschi's politics, of his son Camillo's, and of Giovanni Battista de Franceschi's three terms in the Vienna parliament — including a Croatian Party demand that his 1885 election be annulled.
Carlo as the first to warn that the Istrian Slavs sought political realisation, and lifelong for their «necessary and unavoidable assimilation»The 1848 interpellation for Italian as the sole official and school languageKlana, May 1870 — the relief money taken back to the LandesausschussJohann de Franceschi in the Reichsrat 1873–79, 1879–85, 1885–91The demand to annul the Vodnjan election of 22 May 1885 — AST-LDL-AP (1891) fasc. 138Bertoša 1985 on Gologorica, pp. 177–253, esp. 225 and 228
Free from the publisher as a PDF under a Creative Commons licence. Written in German. Brought to this archive's attention by the family, September 2026.
Held. A copy is in this project's source library: printed/2024 Simon Daniela - Die bedrohte Ordnung der Vielfalt (open access).pdf
Caracas 2002, revised 2012; on ResearchGate www.researchgate.net/publication/317624821
A Venezuelan historian's history of the Corsican Franceschi of Ersa in Cap Corse, from Pietro Franceschi (1694–1771) to the emigration to Venezuela by way of the French Caribbean. Ninety pages, and not one line of it touches Istria — which is what makes it the answer to the Corsica marker on the family's own map.
Rovinj 2009 crsrv.org
Cites Camillo De Franceschi throughout as the authority on Pula, and yields his Pula bibliography — including «Testamenti polesani del secolo XV con alcuni cenni sulle antiche casate patrizie di Pola», sixteen fifteenth-century wills he transcribed.
«Istra iz pera Nobilea» — Pietro Nobile's Istrian drawings
Croatia, exhibition and study volume
Camillo De Franceschi bought the Nobile drawings for the Provincial Library in 1934 and 1941 from heirs at Koper; Giulio De Franceschi appears as an illustrator of monuments; and the author reports finding the ex libris «De Franceschi – Seghetto» on books in that library's holdings — the Seget house's own library.
Istra kroz stoljeća I/1, Pula–Rijeka 1979; full text at idoc.pub idoc.pub/documents/krizman-1979-anticka-svjedocanstva-o-istri-6nq981771plw
Every Greek and Latin writer who mentions Istria, with commentary. Cites Carlo De Franceschi eleven times and places the ancient Alùon between Pićan and Gologorica.
Sveučilište u Splitu, Filozofski fakultet, 2025; open access repozitorij.ffst.unist.hr/islandora/object/ffst:5139
The best single study of the Dalmatian family: origins, genealogy to the eighteenth century, noble status, arms, the conquest of Imotski, and the Perinuša and Opačac estates.
Ferdinand Šišić, «An Abridged Political History of Rieka (Fiume)»
Imprimerie Graphique, Paris 1919
Written for the Paris Peace Conference, with a documentary appendix of Fiume's election papers — including the protocol of 20 April 1871 signed «Frco Defranceschi».
Regan & Nadilo, «Istarski kašteli … sjeverno od Čepićkog polja»
«Građevinar» 64 (2012) 6, pp. 515–522
An architectural survey of Gologorica: the house of 1711 with its arms, inscription and relief of Christ, and the benefice held on lease by the De Franceschi from 1772 until 1848.
Elvis Orbanić, in «Acta Histriae» 32 (2024) 1
Koper 2024
On the votive record at Sveti Petar u Šumi — and, in its source list, the Gologorica parish archive: baptisms 1691–1763 and deaths 1646–1777, held in the parish.
Nakladni zavod Hrvatske, Zagreb, July 1946; scanned on Scribd www.scribd.com/document/580941415
The ethnic cadastre of Istria taken to the peace negotiations. 664 pages. The source behind this archive's count of twenty-five Defranceschi families in Istria on 1 October 1945; identified, not yet read.