I mercanti ed i consoli italiani alle foci del Danubio: la famiglia Gagliardo
The Italian Merchants and Consuls at the Mouth of the Danube: the Gagliardos

Summary/Abstract: Numerous studies have been dedicated to the Italian Emigration in the EasternMediterranean and the Black Sea. In the first decades of the 19th century, commercialimportance of these areas has imposed to Sardinian Foreign Ministry to set up, inaddiNumerous studies have been dedicated to the Italian Emigration in the EasternMediterranean and the Black Sea. In the first decades of the 19th century, commercialimportance of these areas has imposed to Sardinian Foreign Ministry to set up, inaddition to consular agency in Constantinople, a school of oriental languages, wheresome of the consuls established in Galați: Stefano Berzolese and Francesco Mathieulearned. This article makes an attempt to bring new information on the Italians settled inthe Danube port cities: Galați, Ismail, and Braila. Relying upon consular reports found inNational Archives of Turin, we tried to reconstruct fragments of commercial and consularactivity of Gagliardo family. Its members were grain merchants in Ismail, Odessa, andGalați, were consuls for the Kingdom of Sardinia and for the Kingdom of the TwoSicilies and one of them, after naturalization, was elected in Moldavian ad-hocAssembly.

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