Plan
cur. Costanza Lisi

• To create a tool to consult Italian consular archives (1814-1860)
• To offer freely available online inventories
• To enhance the value of content through multiple, reasoned and standardized access keys
• To study Italian communities abroad
• To identify the prevailing activities of the nationals
• To delve into the history of the consular institution
• To investigate, through a more detailed listing parts of the consular archives (thematic focuses)
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To know more

• RiMe. Rivista dell'Istituto di Storia dell'Europa Mediterranea
• La Fabrique Consulaire
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Highlighted documents

• Register of vessel arrivals and departures in Tripoli in Lebanon (1826-1847)
• Register of vessel arrivals and departures in Beirut (1825-1864)
• Deeds drawn up by the Sardinian Consular Post in Thessaloniki (1826-).
• The subjects of the Kingdom of Sardinia in Constantinople (1830-1835 ca). A list
• Deeds drawn up by the Consulate of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Genoa (1814-1858)
• The subjects of the Kingdom of Sardinia in Tunisia. A list (1830-1835)
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News

• September publication
  1. Another small archive. The Kingdom of Sardinia Consulate in Beirut, preserves 18 registers. Among these, a valuable volume records the passages of Sardinian ships through the port. Names of ships, captains, traces of their histories, trajectories, cargoes, and trade.
  2. Kingdom of Sardinia, Proconsulate in Tripoli of Lebanon, There are few documents remaining from the Kingdom of Sardinia Proconsulate in Tripoli, Lebanon, just few papers hidden in the larger collection of documents from the Italian Consulate in Beirut. However one volume contains a continuous record of ship arrrivals and departures. This data perfectly matches that recorded in the Beirut documents. The records describe passages, stopovers and transported goods. The trajectories of Beirut vessels are becoming clearer.

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• Publication of a guide to the documentation produced by the consulates of the Kingdom of Sardinia in the Ottoman Levant and North Africa. The reconstruction of the consular network in the years 1825-1859, the life of the officers, news and histories of the proconsuls and dragomen.
  Lisi, Costanza, La rete consolare del Regno sardo nel Levante ottomano e in Africa del Nord. Repertorio, Torino, Celid, 2024, 458 p. (Deputazione Subalpina di storia patria. Biblioteca di storia recente, N.S., vol. XXXVII)

• The inventories of the archives of the Tuscan consulates in Liguria are on line: Duchy of Lucca. General Consulate of Genoa; Grand Duchy of Tuscany. General Consulate of Genoa; Grand Duchy of Tuscany viceconsulates of Lerici, Finale Marina, Sarzana, 'San Pier d'Arena'. New digital inventory of the archive Grand Duchy of Tuscany. General Consulate in Rome (1817-1853)

• The inventories of the archives of the Sardinian consulate on line:

  • General Consulate and Embassy Chancellery in Constantinople;
  • General Consulate in Alexandria in Egypt;
  • Consulate in Thessaloniki then Vice-consulate then Proconsulate then Consular Delegation then Consulate;
  • General Consulate in Tunis
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• A brief introduction to the inventory of the archives of the Sardinian Consulate in Constantinople and of the Sardinian Consulate in Alexandria of Egypt in 'La Fabrique Consulaire'
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