Orsola de Benzoni

…Giuseppe, 1748–1778 , Married Francesca Tomasich in 1772, died in 1778 leaving a son Valentino; the widow remarried in 1783 to Giovanni Bassan. , Valentino di Giuseppe , Civic engineer and steward of Fiume, with a house on the Corso until 1827. Married Orsola de Benzoni in 1793; sons Francesco Giuseppe, Giovanni Nepomuceno, Pietro Giulio and Antonio, daughters Teresa, Lodovica, Giuseppa and Anna. His wife died in 1807 and he built a family tomb in the cemetery where she lay. , Francesco Giuseppe , Patrician councillor and royal harbourmaster of Fiume. Died 22 December 1885 — within Carlo's lif…

…em answer. The lead was worth having. It was not evidence. , key: true , us: And it turns out to bear on this family directly. Kobler's own article on the three Fiume stocks of the surname records that Valentino Defranceschi, civic engineer and steward of Fiume, «ammogliatosi nel 1793 con Orsola de Benzoni», married an Orsola de Benzoni in 1793 and had eight children by her. So the Defranceschi married into the Benzoni — the Fiume house that had produced, two generations earlier, the vicar general of the diocese of Gologorica and Gallignana and then a bishop. And Giovanni Antonio's own mother was an Orsola, which is where the name in the family comes from. The bishop is buried i…

…aving. It was not evidence. , key: true , us: And it turns out to bear on this family directly. Kobler's own article on the three Fiume stocks of the surname records that Valentino Defranceschi, civic engineer and steward of Fiume, «ammogliatosi nel 1793 con Orsola de Benzoni», married an Orsola de Benzoni in 1793 and had eight children by her. So the Defranceschi married into the Benzoni — the Fiume house that had produced, two generations earlier, the vicar general of the diocese of Gologorica and Gallignana and then a bishop. And Giovanni Antonio's own mother was an Orsola, which is where the name in the family comes from. The bishop is buried in the collegiate church at Fium…

…ni and Orlando are on it. The De Franceschi are not, and neither are the Bono. The sentence on the modern page has taken a real list and widened it. , turn: None of which is the interesting part. The interesting part is what the Benzoni actually were, because in 1793 Valentino Defranceschi married Orsola de Benzoni — and that was not a marriage into an ordinary merchant family. , house: lab: c. 1650 — two brothers from Cremona , text: Giovanni Battista and Vincenzo, trading. Giovanni Battista married Antonia Tremanini in 1653 and was, in Kobler's words, «negoziante molto attivo e fortunato». Vincenzo already owned a house with vineyard and wood at Šk…

…councillor , text: «Patrizi consiglieri che abitavano in Fiume nel 1848» — the patrician councillors living in Fiume in 1848. The list is alphabetical, and there between Dall'Asta and Deseppi stands «Defranceschi Francesco». That is Valentino's grandson, Francesco Giuseppe, son of Valentino di Giuseppe and Orsola de Benzoni, royal harbourmaster of Fiume. Twelve names further down the same list: «Kobler Giovanni», with a footnote saying that he and Cimiotti were the two historians of Fiume and also its two last patricians. , daughter: lab: And then, two hundred pages from the family article, one of the fourteen children , text: Kobler finishes his account of…