This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... SHORT VIEW OF THE GENEALOGY OF THE IMPERIAL HOUSE OF BONAPARTE HE descent of the Bonaparte family goes back many centuries. The history of Italy says this family was a celebrated one during the XIII century and the history of the Italian cities of Florence, Treviso, San Miniato, and Geneva are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... SHORT VIEW OF THE GENEALOGY OF THE IMPERIAL HOUSE OF BONAPARTE HE descent of the Bonaparte family goes back many centuries. The history of Italy says this family was a celebrated one during the XIII century and the history of the Italian cities of Florence, Treviso, San Miniato, and Geneva are connected with the Bonaparte name. James ("Jacopo") Bonaparte, who in 1527 published his celebrated historical work entitled Ragguaglio storico de tutto L'accorso par giorno nel sacco di Roma dell anno 1527 was still known as a descendant of the old nobility. Later another Bonaparte, Nicholas ("Nicolo"), the author of a play, La vidova, was called to fill a chair in the university of San Miniato, and was a nobleman of high descent. The Bonaparte family became divided into different branches and one of them settled 87 during the XVI century in Ajaccio, the Capital of the Isle of Corsica, there many of them held high social and political positions (Cittadini, Padri del Commune). The proper institutors of the Ajaccio Branch of Bonaparte's were Napoleon (" Nabulione di Buonaparte"), the Emperor's grandfather, and Lucian, uncle of Great Napoleon, later Cardinal of Paris. The following list shows the generations of the Imperial family of the Bonapartes: Nabulione di BUONAPARTE Carlo Bonaparte Born Ajaccio, Mar. 29, 1746, --died Montpellier Feb. 24, 1786. (Mary Letizia di Ramolino, of Saracen, North African, descent, born Ajaccio Aug. 24, 1750, died Borne Feb. 2, 1836.) I.) Joseph (Mary Julia Clary). II.) Napoleon (1. Josephine Tascher). (2. Marie Louise of Austria.) III.) Jerome (1. Elizabeth Patterson). (2. Catharinaof Wuerttemberg.) IV.) Lucien (1. Christine Boyer). (2. Laurencia Bleschamp.) V.) Mary Anna Elizabeth (Paschalis di Bacciocchi). VI.) Louis...
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