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MARCO DE MARCHI
L'ovvio e l'imprevisto di un collezionista filantropo
Catalogo della collezione sul Risorgimento Italiano

208 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - 2nd ed. 2007
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MARCO DE MARCHI
The obviousness and the impredictability of a philanthropist collector
Catalogue of the collection on Italian Risorgimento

The volume presents the collection of Marco De Marchi, now belonging to the Museum of Risorgimento in Milan. Gathered during many years of study and research, it is focused on the issues of the pre-unity Italian States, of the Kingdom of Italy and of the Italian colonies. It includes all the cancellations of the Italian States, some of them never shown before.

CONTENTS

The obviousness and the impredictability of Marco De Marchi - Notes on the political and economical situation of Italian States in the years when the first postage stamps were introduced - The Collection De Marchi - Cancellations of the Lombardy-Venetia Kingdom, of post offices in Lombardy after the annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia and to the Kingdom of Italy, of the Duchy of Modena, of the Kingdom of Naples, of the Duchy of Parma, of the Papal State, Sardinian-Italian cancellations of the post offices in the Marches, Umbria and Romagne (1860-1863), of the Kingdom of Sardinia, of the Kingdom of Sicily, Sicilian cancellations after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, cancellations of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany