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- 1860 - 1941 (Creation)
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Biographical history
A Sardinian Consulate had been established in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1825. (inventory available at https://archiviconsolari.it/regno-di-sardegna-consolato-generale-di-s-m-il-re-di-sardegna-in-alessandria-degitto).
Following the unification of Italy, the Royal Consulate of Italy gradually assumed the functions previously exercised by the other consulates of the former Italian states.
The Consulate General of Italy in Alexandria, Egypt, will close in December 2013.
From 1860 onwards, they served as consuls in Alexandria, Egypt:
- Giovanni Domenico Bruno Cunci, consul with credentials as agent and consul general (1860-1865), appointed on 11 August 1860
- Giuseppe De Martino, from 1 September 1870, also agent and consul general for Egypt, in Alexandria (1865-), appointed on 21 December 1864
- Giulio Malmusi, consul (1877-1879), appointed on 13 February 1877
- Giovanni Battista Machiavelli, vice-consul with consul credentials, then consul (1880-1885), appointed on 23 November 1879
- Giovanni Venanzi, vice-consul with credentials as, then consul (1885-1888), appointed on 22 March 1885
- Giuseppe Pirrone, consul (1889-1894), appointed on 18 July 1889
- Cesare Romano, consul (1894-1902), appointed on 12 April 1894
- Giulio Amedeo Iona, consul (1902-1904), appointed on 28 July 1902
- Enrico Acton, consul with general consul credentials (1904-), appointed on 22 August 1904
- Guido Meli Lupi di Soragna, consul with general consul credentials (1906-), appointed on 14 October 1906
- Mario Paolo Camicia, consul with general consul credentials (1909- ), appointed on 17 September 1907
- Girolamo Naselli, consul with general consul credentials (1912-1915), appointed on 15 June 1911
- Mario Paolo Camicia, general consul (1915), appointed on 7 February 1915
- Felice Maissa, consul general (1915-1919), appointed on 21 November 1915
- Guglielmo Vivaldi, consul general (1919-1923), appointed on 22 August 1919
- Galeazzo Della Croce di Dojola, consul with general consul credentials (1923-1932), appointed on 10 July 1923
- Ugo Sabetta, consul general (1932-1933), appointed on 23 June 1932
- Franco Fontana, consul with general consul credentials (1933-1937), appointed on 18 May 1933
- Silvio Camerani, consul general (1937-1939), appointed on 30 November 1936
- Camillo Giuriati, consul, then consul general (1939 -), appointed on 6 June 1939
Archival history
The papers of the Italian Consulate in Alexandria of Egypt were transferred to the ASDMAE at the end of the 1970s directly from the consular offices that created them. They were transferred in bundled consignments, that is, in generally coherent or homogeneous groups, accompanied by inventory cards. The parcels were in turn placed in large, numbered jute sacks. The sacks, in the form in which they had been sent from the creator, remained in storage for several years without being physically rearranged.
In the mid-1990s, under the supervision of the then ASDMAE Director Vincenzo Pellegrini, a first arrangement took place. Almost all the papers were then placed in folders, with some of the information provided by the creator on the back. The documents were also placed on the shelves in a logical order reflecting the functions carried out by the Consulate. The information provided to the Ministry by the office of Alexandria are, as the census showed, generally accurate, although in some cases incomplete. In summary, the structure and content of the documents, now collected in folders, was described and easily understood to the extent that it was in the offices in Alexandria.
In time, the material has partially lost its physical order, but the archival efforts made by the staff of the ASDMAE were not in vain. In fact, the information on the backs of the folders and the transfer lists found in the files of the ASDMAE made it possible to carry out, with a certain degree of speed, a general survey of the papers, which mainly, but not exclusively, consisted of the criminal and civil proceedings of the consular tribunals and related documents.
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The archive of the Consulate in Alexandria, Egypt, consists mainly, though not exclusively, of case files relating to criminal and civil proceedings before the Consular Courts of Alexandria, together with related documentation.
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Related units of description
Cover of the dossier 10. 1871 archived in ASDMAE, Royal Italian Consulate in Alexandria, Egypt, R. Consular courts, Criminal matters, 1871, b. 1-53 (detail)
Publication note
Archival arrangement and inventory by Costanza Lisi
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- Iona, Giulio (Subject)
- Camerani, Silvio (Subject)
- Fontana, Franco (Subject)
- Sabetta, Ugo (Subject)
- Della Croce di Dojola, Galeazzo (Subject)
- Vivaldi, Guglielmo (Subject)
- Massa, Felice (Subject)
- Naselli, Girolamo (Subject)
- Camicia, Mario Paolo (Subject)
- Acton, Enrico (Subject)
- Giuriati, Camillo (Subject)
- Romano, Cesare (Subject)
- Pirrone, Giuseppe (Subject)
- Venanzi, Giovanni (Subject)
- Machiavelli, Giovanni Battista (Subject)
- Malmusi, Giulio (Subject)
- De Martino, Giuseppe (Subject)
- Bruno Cunci, Giovanni Domenico (Subject)
- Meli Lupi di Soragna, Guido (Subject)