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https://doi.org/10.58565/vda.3.1.6
Giorgi Family Fonds – personal documentation of Nikola Giorgi Bona and correspondence with his son Luka (1834 – 1855)
Ivona Fabris
orcid.org/0009-0008-4428-3256
; Državni arhiv u Dubrovniku, Dubrovnik, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Following the archival processing and analytical description of the material, this paper presents the archival fonds HR-DADU-259 The Giorgi Family as a whole, as well as part of the material belonging to the series Members of the Giorgi Bona Family, i.e. the content of 147 letters exchanged between Nikola Giorgi Bona (1778 – 1855) and his eldest son Luka (1815 – 1888), an Austrian colonel. The original archival material follows the course of the military career of Luka Giorgi Bono, a young nobleman from Dubrovnik, educated at the prestigious military academy in Wiener Neustadt (Bečko Novo Mjesto) in the 1930s. He began his military career in northern Italy, after which he served for years in Galicia and again in northern Italy and Tyrol during the revolutionary events of 1848/1849, then in Bavaria, the Baltic, and the Czech Republic. The content of the letters exchanged mostly between the son and the father, from 1834 to 1855, reveals private relationships between family members, but also a broader picture of social, economic, and political conditions during the Austrian administration in Dubrovnik, experienced from the perspective of the last members of Dubrovnik nobility. The analysis of the materials of only one archival box, i.e., one subseries within another series, Members of the Giorgi Bona family, more precisely the correspondence of Nikola Giorgi Bona with his eldest son Luka, revealed a series of information about the life of this Dubrovnik noble family and a whole series of less and more known historical events from first half of the 19th century. For historiographic research, original archival material such as this is a valuable source of data as it conveys unique and direct testimonies. Any further research into the handwritten legacy of the Giorgi family will certainly be facilitated by the analytical inventory completed and recently published at the official website of the archives.
Ključne riječi
Giorgi Bona family; Dubrovnik; Austrian administration; Dubrovnik nobility; private correspondence; manuscript legacies; State Archives in Dubrovnik (DADU)
Hrčak ID:
293349
URI
Datum izdavanja:
24.2.2023.
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