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…ons. That one is «Memorie autobiografiche», and it was never printed in his lifetime, because — as a Trieste reviewer put it in 1926 — «Impossibile sarebbe stato il pensarne la pubblicazione sotto l'Austria». It would have been impossible to think of publishing it under Austria. , rows: lab: What it is, and when he made it , text: «Le Memorie sono scritte in forma di lettere, ché dall'aprile al dicembre 1883, l'illustre storiografo istriano, già settuagenario, dettava per compiacere al desiderio del figlio Giampietro, morto immaturamente un anno dopo.» The Memoirs are written as letters, dictated between April and December 1883 by the historian, already in his sev…

…de: Sankt Veit am Flaum , la: Vitipolis , lane: kvarner , coords: 45.33, 14.44 , parish: Rijeka , diocese: Rijeka , lead: The largest documented concentration of the surname anywhere in Croatia — 447 records, once Vitipolis is recognised for what it is. , body: The indexed church books give 225 records under Fiume, 178 under Vitipolis and 44 under Rijeka. They are the same city. Vitipolis is the Latin for the city of Saint Vitus — Rijeka's patron, and the saint its cathedral is named for — which is also what the German Sankt Veit am Flaum means. Read together they make Rijeka the single biggest cluster of this…

…og this morning: «La Ricerca» of 2004 says there is a tomb of the counts de Franceschi of Seghetto in the cemetery at Umag, «munita di stemma famigliare», and a photograph of it would be worth having. The photograph arrived the same day. The family went and stood in front of it. , rows: lab: What it is , text: Not a headstone: a walled burial enclosure with its own iron railings and a flight of steps up to a gate, and inside it a canopy — a semicircular stone arch carried on four columns, with a wrought-iron cross and two kneeling angels on the crown of it. The arch is filled with a black-painted iron tympanum of scrolling acanthus. Cypresses behind. It is the mos…

…The second, 25 March 1909, is the thing itself: the paper takes page 351 of Carlo's own «L'Istria», with its 1102 charter and its three Slavic place-names, and turns his argument inside out. It is set out on the Gologorica line, because it is about the village rather than about him. , close: Reading order, for what it is worth: «L'Eco di Pola» tells you what he did, «Il giovine Pensiero» tells you where he came from, and Don Ramiro's letter from Pisino tells you what it was like to stand next to him on a Saturday morning. , chapel: heading: Valentino's chapel, and the words over its door , lead: This archive has been carrying Kobler's one-sentence summary of Valentino D…

…scendants at Fiume keep a great genealogical tree going back to a very remote stock; but the continuation was neglected, so the link to the Benzoni of Fiume is missing from it. A family with a magnificent chart and a hole where the join should be. That is exactly the condition this archive found itself in, and exactly what it is for. , source_house: Giovanni Kobler, «Memorie per la storia della liburnica città di Fiume», reprinted as vol. 3 of the Collana degli Atti of Rovigno, 1978 — the Benzoni, Bono and De Franceschi family articles, the list of wholesale houses, and the chapter on the collegiate church. Read from the Internet Archive copy, September 2026. The modern page checked against it…