Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi was born in Bologna on 25 April 1874, to Giuseppe, a wealthy landowner, and Annie Jameson, an Irishwoman and granddaughter of the founder of the well-known Jameson&Son distillery. He spent his childhood in the family villa near Sasso Marconi (BO), where he received a mainly private, occasional and highly experimental education.…

Mi chiamo Angelo Gallardi, vivo in Argentina e come molti altri discendenti di immigrati, il mio interesse per la genealogia si è risvegliato raccogliendo i documenti per la cittadinanza italiana, poco più di 4 anni fa. L’interesse non si è fermato a quei documenti e partendo da un piccolo e limitato albero che ho fatto…

Assunta Adelaide Luigia Saltarini Modotti, known as Tina, was born on 17th August 1896 in Udine into a large family of very modest circumstances. In 1905, his father, Giuseppe, emigrated to the United States in search of fortune. For this reason, at the age of twelve, Tina was forced to work as a labourer in…

Leopoldo Cassese was born in Atripalda (AV) on 20th January 1901. After graduating in Literature in 1925 from the Federico II University in Naples, he graduated from the School for Archivists and Paleographical Librarians in Florence, where he was a pupil of Luigi Schiaparelli, with whom he also collaborated on the Guida storica e bibliografica…

Luigi Numa Lorenzo Einaudi was born in Carrù (CN) on 24th March 1874. Soon orphaned by his father, he moved to Dogliani, his mother’s hometown, with her and his three brothers. He attended the Umberto I national boarding school in Turin and successfully graduated from the Cavour classical high school, before graduating with top marks…