Talk:Amedeo Preziosi

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Una din picturi este Bucurestioara, nu Dambovita.

Greek woman

"Greek woman": I can propose as an addition to the context of this epoch, that his third child and daughter Catherine Preziosi married, in 1884 in Constantinople/Istambul, John Castelli who was issued from the Castelli family, a famous local Italian family, who were Genovese merchants and industrials trading and living for a long time in Greece (Island of Chios) and in Ottoman Empire (Constantinople, Istanbul); so we can say he had relations with the Genovese minority: at this epoch those minorities were influenced by a mixture from Italian, Greek, French and English cultures as can be seen in the children's names, and the fact that the gravestones are written in French, as was his mother. Each community, even under Ottoman power kept his original culture, and first his religion, but practiced various languages; the city remained San Stefano, etc. This relative tolerance and openness ended with the rising of the young Turkish nationalism after 1918, so we do not know where went Amadeo's children, but the Castelli family left Istamboul during the years 1920–1930 as many others minorities. Catherine Preziozi / Castelli lived with John in Tabriz (Iran) during 30 years with a trading activity in carpets, and they had five children; they returned in Constantinople in 1910 but left after for Roma (Italia) in 1917. Catherine is reported to be dead in the year 1923. A great part of Castelli family exiled to Italy, France, some to England, a few to US, but not many to Genova from wHere their ancestors originated and had left more than 8 centuries before. – discussion moved from article by Certes (talk) 00:40, 2 March 2022 (UTC)