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- Title
“Scatti” di storia: Nuove donazioni per l’Archivio del Centro Studi Piemontesi.
- Authors
Ludovici, Andrea Maria
- Abstract
In 2020-2021, the Archives of the Centro Studi Piemontesi received two important documentary fonds as a donation and had them inventoried. The fonds are characterised by the conspicuous presence of high-quality photographic prints, dated between 1860 and 1947, which make them an unprecedented source in the already extensive landscape of photographic archives in Piedmont. The first fond comes from the castle of Valperga Canavese and is particularly linked to the history of the Scarampi family of Villanova. It brings to light its frequent relations with the De Seigneux cousins, and its proximity to certain members of the House of Savoy, such as Princess Maria Letizia Napoleon, Duchess of Aosta, Kings Umberto I and Vittorio Emanuele III, Queens Margherita and Elena, Duke Emanuele Filiberto of Aosta and Prince Tomaso of Savoy- Genoa. The prevailing genre among the photographs is that of the carte de visite: souvenir portraits made by leading photographers of the time, such as Nadar, Alexander Bassano, Michele Schemboche, Henri Le Lieure, Paolo and Oreste Bertieri, Giuseppe Vanetti and the Lovazzano brothers. The second fond was donated to the Ca dë Studi Piemontèis by Duke Vittorio Asinari Rossillon di Bernezzo. It includes 840 photographic prints linked to the career and military roles of Giuseppe Mario Asinari Rossillon di Bernezzo (1874- 1943), “First Aide-de-Camp General of HM King Vittorio Emanuele III”, and his sons Giacomo (1903-1990), Air Force Brigadier General, and Germano (1905-1994), Colonel of the Tankers. Among the many pictures, those made by Istituto Nazionale Luce and arranged into four albums are particularly worthy of note. The albums are dedicated to the stay in Italy of Field Marshal Von Blomberg, the Reich Minister of War (2-7 June 1937); King Vittorio Emanuele III’s trip to Tripolitania from 20 May to 3 June 1938 (among the personalities portrayed in the shots, in addition to the king, we can see the Governor of Tripolitania, Italo Balbo, and archaeologist Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli; the pictures are shot in Tripoli, as well as the Sabatra archaeological site, with its monumental Roman theatre); the King’s visit to Forlì and Predappio on 8 June 1938.
- Subjects
ARCHIVES; PRINTS; UMBERTO I, King of Italy, 1844-1900; EMANUELE, Vittorio; MARGHERITA, Queen, consort of Umberto I, King of Italy, 1851-1926
- Publication
Studi Piemontesi, 2022, Vol 51, Issue 1, p205
- ISSN
0392-7261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26344/0392-7261/22-1.LUD