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- 1814 - 1860 (Creation)
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Archive
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Biographical history
The consulate general of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Genoa is one of the oldest Grand Ducal consulates.
In the period 1814-1860 the following consuls and regents succeeded each other:
- Francesco Bocci, provisional consul, later consul general (1814-1828)
- Fedele Quaglia, regent of the Consulate (1828-1829)
- Alessandro Scacerni, consul general (1829-1833)
- Carlo Pietro Cecconi, in charge of the Consulate then consul general (from 1833)
Vice consular dependencies:
- Finale (since 1819),
- Lerici (since 1850)
- Portofino (since 1816)
- Portovenere (since 1853)
- San Pier d’Arena (since 1857)
- Sarzana (since 1847)
- Savona (since 1816)
- Sestri di Levante (since 1857)
- Spezia (since 1815)
Repository
Archival history
With r.d. 1 April 1860, following the annexation of Tuscany to the Sardinian Kingdom, the Tuscan consulates and vice consulates still existing in the "ancient provinces of the Kingdom" definitively cease and are invited to put an end to their ancient functions.
The attributions are entrusted to the naval officers of the respective localities.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turin establishes that the archives of the consular offices of Tuscany must be delivered to the Intendants of the district through a special inventory of all the papers, books and objects.
Only a few days later, on April 1860, the archive of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Consulate General in Genoa, was handed over by the former consul general Carlo Pietro Cecconi to the officer delegated for the purpose by the governor of the city of Genoa, and since then it is part of the fund Intendenza generale di Genoa, Archivio Amministrativo.
On the occasion of its deposit a precise list was compiled. Today it allows us to understand its structure and to reorder the documentation.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
The archive has come to us almost in its entirety, only a few pieces are missing. They can be identified thanks to the presence of the deposit list.
The following documentation is preserved
- the regulatory instruments (mainly printed material)
- the institutional correspondence (incoming letters and copy book registers, a protocol)
- the instruments of control and supervision on the movement of Tuscans subjects and foreigners to Tuscany
- the instruments of control and supervision on the Merchant Navy
- the papers aimed at the protection of Tuscan subjects and the documentation produced in the performance of notarial functions (notarial and authentication services)
The fond consist mainly of correspondence (files and copy-books) and registers.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The architecture of the papers, received by the Intendenza of Genoa was not completely changed. However the documentation appears to have been partially reorganized. The reordering we publish is virtual.
The original structure of the archive of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Genoa is readable through the deposit list which from now on will be called "ancient lists".
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Finding aids
The archive was partially inventoried in the Archivio di Stato of Genoa web-site, called Ianua (https://ianua.arianna4.cloud/).
Thanks to this initial tool, which identify the folders containing the documentation produced by the Consulate, and to the ancient deposit lists, it was possible to proceed to the virtual reordering and to edit the inventory of the papers.
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Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Publication note
Lisi, C., Gli archivi del Consolato generale del Granducato di Toscana (1814-1860) e del Consolato di Lucca (1814-1847) a Genova, in Atti della Società Ligure di Storia Patria, n.s., LXIII (2023), pp. 135-176 (https://www.storiapatriagenova.it/Scheda_vs_info.aspx?Id_Scheda_Bibliografica=7284)
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Alternative identifier(s)
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Subject access points
Name access points
- Cecconi, Carlo Pietro (Subject)
- Quaglia, Fedele (Subject)
- Bocci, Francesco (Subject)
- Scacerni, Alessandro (Subject)
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Archivist's note
Ordinamento virtuale e inventariazione a cura di Costanza Lisi