The Carteggio Giacomo Serra

Edited by Oriana Cartaregia - from 1987 to 2002

The correspondence Serra consists of 98 letters addressed for the most part to the MarquisGiacomo Serra by his sons and daughters Gio. Carlo, Girolamo, Maria Maddalena, Ambrogio e Giovanni Battista. The biggest nucleus of correspondence refers to Giovanni Carlo and Girolamo correspondence from 1776 to 1780 at the Teresian College of Vienna.

The correspondence was probably part of some family funds attached to the Archive of the University Studies of Genova.

Some of those funds were received by the Library and placed in a box called "Laura". Even today, 37 letters to the Marquis Giacomo Serra, Genoa (mostly from Vienna from the abbot Giuseppe Antonio Pozzi, tutor of Girolamo and Gio Carlo Serra, 1776 -1780)can be found amongst the material in the box marked Laura File 1700/13.

The image that the letters give us of the two characters, protagonists in the changeover from the oligarchic republich to the Ligurian republic, is unusual and curious. Gio Carlo and Girolamo did not have yet twenty years at that time and were just building their cultural background, so that very little in these letters allows to predict their future destiny. If on one side the historic political interest of this correspondence is rather limited, an "intimate" angle transpires about small family interests offering us a very realistic insight into the methods of education of that period. For the nature of family correspondence, we have not considered it necessary to support the catalogues with the regesto of the letters.

Here is a short list of topographical letters flanked by the same sender.

 

Letters 1-44                SERRA, Gio. Carlo Francesco Antonio

Lettera 45                    SERRA, Girolamo Francesco Luciano  

Lettere 46-97              SERRA, Gio. Carlo Francesco Antonio

Lettere 98-184            SERRA, Girolamo Francesco Luciano  

Lettere 185 e 186       DE MARI, Giovanni Battista

Lettera 187                  BRENTANO CIMAROLI, Luigi  

Documenti 188 (a-t)    Pagelle dei F.lli SERRA alla Scuola Militare di Sorèze

Lettera 189                  SERRA, Maria Maddalena  

Lettere 190-194           SERRA, Ambrogio

Lettera 195                  SERRA, Giovanni Battista  

Lettera 196                  SERRA, Giacomo

Documento 197           Copia di Legge del 18/IV/1776  

Documento 198           Foglio di appunti

Bibliografia

Synthetic Bibliography .

L. T. BELGRANO, Della vita e delle opere del Marchese Gerolamo Serra, Genova, 1859

M. G. CANALE, Della vita e delle opere del Marchese G. C. Serra, Genova, 1890

L. GRILLO, Appendice ai tre volumi della raccolta elogi di Liguri illustri, Genova, 1873, pp. 63-89

M. DAMONTE, La famiglia Serra e Gian Carlo Serra, La Storia dei genovesi, VIII, Genova, 1988, pp. 243-271.

O.CARTAREGIA,   Il carteggio Giacomo Serra nella Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova, Materiali della Società italiana di studi sul secolo XVIII. Pubblicare il Settecento. Edizioni e ricerche in corso, edited by Alberto Postigliola, Roma, 1991, p. 109-111.

C. FARINELLA, Gli anni di formazione di Gio. Carlo e Girolamo Serra, Loano 1795. Tra Francia e Italia dall'Ancien Régime ai tempi nuovi. Atti del Convegno 23-26 novembre 1995, Bordighera-Loano, 1998, pp. 55-127. [You see in particular the Bibliography cited in notes]