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Name of Object:

Register listing 'all of the subjects of the Grand Duke of Tuscany [Italy] residing in Tunisia'

Name in original language:

Stato nominativo di tutti i Sudditi di Sua Altezza Reale il Gran Duca di Toscana residenti in Tunisi

Location:

Livorno, Italy

Holding Institution:

State Archives of Livorno

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Holding Institution (original language):

Archivio di Stato di Livorno

Date of Object:

1850

Description:

The names appearing in this list are mostly Jewish, including that of Giacomo Castelnuovo (Livorno, Italy, 1819 – La Goulette, Tunisia, 1886), a medical doctor who had to flee Italy because of his liberal ideas and his support for Italy’s national unification. Initially he went to Egypt, where he founded two Italian newspapers, Lo Spettatore Egiziano and Il Progresso d’Egitto.
The author of many medical publications, in Tunis Castelnuovo became the Bey’s personal physician. He served as president of the Tunisian branch of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, and promoted the construction of a synagogue, on a plot of land granted by the Bey.
A Freemason, he fought in Italy in the wars for Italy’s unification. He was awarded honours by both the Italian King (who ennobled him) and by the Bey of Tunis.

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

ASLi, Governo civile e militare, b. 433

Citation of this web page:

Massimo Sanacore "Register listing 'all of the subjects of the Grand Duke of Tuscany [Italy] residing in Tunisia'" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;109;en;N

Prepared by: Massimo Sanacore
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 109

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