Name of Object:

An open letter from the Tuscan community in Constantinople to the Chargé d’Affairs of Tuscany, protesting the detention of three Italian democrats exiled by Ottoman authorities

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:

Constantinople, 9 August 1848

Description:

Italian communities abroad actively supported the movement for Italian national unification known as “Risorgimento”. The Italian community in Constantinople raised funding to donate a cannon to the Kingdom of Sardinia, which in 1848 was at war with the Austrian Empire. After the Kingdom of Sardinia’s army was defeated, conflicts between the most moderate wing of the nationalist movement and the republicans (supporters of Giuseppe Mazzini) broke out and the Kingdom of Sardinia’s authorities started to persecute the latter.

Type of Object

Archival document

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

ASLI, Carte Mangini, 1, fasc. 1848

Citation of this web page:

Massimo Sanacore "An open letter from the Tuscan community in Constantinople to the Chargé d’Affairs of Tuscany, protesting the detention of three Italian democrats exiled by Ottoman authorities" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;130;en

Prepared by: Massimo Sanacore
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 130