#portoferraio

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Portoferraio, Livorno, Italy

Bjorn Agerbeek

#Portoferraio #Livorno #Italië #Italy #Europe

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Elba

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Isola d'Elba - Portoferraio

#elba #isola d'elba #portoferraio #arcipelago toscano #porto #travel #arecco #arecco francesco #sea

[thingsdavidlikes]

Napoleone, l'Affaccio... by myndroom https://flic.kr/p/2nPjqE7

#photography #napoleon #portoferraio #elba #street #architecture #myndroom

[ultralowoxygen]

Selfie x2 by Cecilia Araldi Via Flickr: Rollei xf 35 . Rollei crossbird creative

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✨POST DELLA SETTIMANA✨ Scatti di mare 🏖️🌊 presenta: 📍 Isola d'Elba 📷 Post di @barbarachiriotti Complimenti per il bellissimo feed!! 👏👏 Seguite la nostra gallery @scatti_di_mare e utilizza l'hashtag #scatti_di_mare nelle tue foto e reels 🌊 🔄Repost gradito! #sansone #isoladelba #elba #elbaisland #isola #portoferraio #livorno #toscana #tuscany #toskana #mare #spiaggia #azzurro #domenica #luglio #estate #estate2022 #fotodellasettimana #meraviglia #senzapensieri #paradisebeach #paradiso #bellezzeitaliane #spiaggedasogno #visitelba #sealovers #beachvibes #beautifulplaces #vistadallalto (presso Spiaggia Di Sansone) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf1QSAaMv8E/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Le stazioni di ricarica per veicoli elettrici Enel X Way da 15 kW presso il Conad di Portoferraio LI: situate presso il parcheggio del supermercato ma li accanto troviamo anche bar, pizzeria e diversi negozi https://www.forumelettrico.it/forum/colonnine-enel-x-way-20-kw-conad-portoferraio-li-piazzale-arcipelago-toscano-t37270.html #enelxway #isoladelba #Portoferraio #livorno

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#Portoferraio

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#Portoferraio #isoladelba, 14 febbraio 2023 ❤ (presso Portoferraio, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cop9OtbodGR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#portoferraio #isoladelba

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#ChiaraTenerini #DeborahBergamini #DlIschia #Emendamento #forzaitalia #Portoferraio #tribunale

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L'Isola d'Elba a novembre, la spiaggia delle Ghiaie un paradiso sempre.

#Isola d'Elba #Portoferraio #Spiaggia delle Ghiaie

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Portoferraio, Elba, Livorno, Italy

Bjorn Agerbeek

#Portoferraio #Elba #Livorno #Italy #Europe

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Portoferraio nell'Elba

La rada di Portoferraio (da Google Earth) Portoferraio è lo scalo marittimo più importante dell’Elba, situato a levante dell’ampia rada naturale che si apre sulla costa settentrionale dell’isola tra le punte Falcone e Falconaia e, data la sua particolare posizione, i colli che la circondano e la profondità all’interno della costa offre efficace protezione dai venti provenienti da tutte le…

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Giuseppe Donizetti — served Napoleon on Elba and accompanied him during the Hundred Days

Portrait of Giuseppe Donizetti later in life

Giuseppe Donizetti was born into poverty in 1788, in the Northern Italian city of Bergamo. The eldest of his siblings, he worked from a young age, training as a tailor’s apprentice. His true talent was in music, which was spotted early on in his life.

Giuseppe was conscripted in 1808 at the age of 20. He served the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in the Seventh Italian Regiment. He fought against Austria in the War of the 5th Coalition in 1809. He spent the years of 1811, 1812 and 1813 in Spain.

In 1811, he was became ill en route to Spain and was hospitalized at Castelnaudary in France. 43 years later in 1854, he wrote about it to the court of the Ottoman Empire:

“Constantinople, November 22, 1854. Mémoire to His Highness Achmed-Fethy Pasha. Finding myself in a comfortable position thanks to the beneficences of Our August and Glorious Sovereign, I cede to the Hospital of Castelnaudary (Aude), in which I was ill in 1811, the portion coming to me of the legacy left by the Emperor Napoleon I to the Battalion of the Island of Elba. The papers establishing my right to participate in the credit opened up by the Decree of August 5, 1854, issued at Biarritz by His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Napoleon III, I have been obliged to send to France at the time when I was honored with a brevet as Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Your Highness's Very humble Servant, Joseph Donizetti.”

Location and photograph of Castelnaudary

After the dissolution of the Kingdom of Italy and the First French Empire, he enlisted in the French military and was stationed on the island of Elba as a military flutist. It was on Elba, in the town of Portoferraio, where he was married in 1815.

That same year, he accompanied Napoleon during the Hundred Days, traveling with him on the same ship from Elba to Antibes, France. He likely fought at the battle of Waterloo.

Landing of Napoleon I in Antibes in 1815

After Napoleon:

The Austrians took control of Northern Italy after the fall of Napoleon. According to the historian Emre Aracı, Giuseppe was “a greal admirer of Napoleon and the French […] Giuseppe strongly opposed his country’s domination by the Austrians. Evidence shows that he secretly took part in the Carbonari resistance and even appeared at court trials.”

Giuseppe Donizetti became a composer, and had a full career as Instructor General of the Imperial Ottoman Music. He even composed the first National Anthem of the Ottoman Empire, the Mecidiye Marşı. His main legacy is introducing Western marching music to the military of the Ottoman Empire.

He was employed by the Ottoman government on 17 September 1828 for an annual salary of 8,000 francs. This was considered a very high salary by his family. Giuseppe’s trouble with the Austrian authorities after the fall of Napoleon may have been a motivator for him to leave Italy. He moved to Constantinople at the age of 39 and spent the rest of his life there.

Giuseppe’s patron was Sultan Mahmud II, who ruled from 1808 to 1839, and Sultan Abdulmejid I, who ruled from 1839 to 1861.

According to the historian Emre Aracı:

“The Donizettis were so well-liked in the Ottoman capital that when fire broke out near their house Ahmet Fethi Pasha, the sultan's brother-in-law, ordered all the houses surrounding the maestro's home to be razed to the ground in order to prevent the flames reaching the building.”

Sultan Mahmud II

His brother, Gaetano, called him his fratello turco— Turkish brother, writing to his friend that “He loves Constantinople, to which he owes everything.”

Giuseppe even encouraged his brother to move to Constantinople, but Gaetano declined. “I do not want to play the fool like my brother, the Bey, who, after having earned more than I perhaps, stays there in ancient Byzantium to scratch his belly between the plague and the stake,” wrote Gaetano.

Giuseppe moved to Constantinople two years after the creation of the Imperial Musical School (Muzıka-i Hümâyûn), which was an Ottoman institution which trained its students in Western style of music. He was specifically recruited as an expert to help lead this effort.

Giuseppe’s younger brother, Gaetano. By Francesco Coghetti, 1837

Gaetano Donizetti, though younger than Giuseppe, became the much more successful and internationally well-known brother, producing nearly 70 operas in his life. Gaetano is considered one of the most successful opera composers in history. Because of this, Giuseppe is widely known as Gaetano Donizetti’s brother. The historian Emre Aracı pointed out that this has actually been good for Giuseppe’s reputation because it has enabled him to be remembered when many other composers have been forgotten.

Both brothers were awarded the Ottoman Order of Nișan-i Iftihar. When Gaetano received the award at the Ottoman Embassy in Paris, he proudly said: “Napoleon belongs to two centuries, I to two religions.”

Burial:

Giuseppe died in 1856, and is buried in the vaults of St. Esprit Cathedral, on the European side of Constantinople, in the district called Pera (now called Beyoğlu). According to Emre Aracı, the district “was once the home of a thriving Christian community”. The Church was built in 1846, 10 years before Giuseppe died.

Interior of St. Esprit Cathedral

Giuseppe and his brother Gaetano are two great success stories and examples of people from impoverished backgrounds who go on to live prosperous and interesting lives.

Sources:

Herbert Weinstock, Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, 1963

Emre Aracı, Giuseppe Donizetti at the Ottoman Court: A Levantine Life, The Musical Times, Vol. 143, No. 1880 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 49-56

Emre Aracı, Giuseppe Donizetti Pasha and the Polyphonic Court Music of the Ottoman Empire, The Court Historian, Volume 7, 2 December 2002

Özgecan Karadağli, Western Performing Arts in the Late Ottoman Empire: Accommodation and Formation, 2020

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Telemaco Signorini, El bagno penale en Portoferraio, 1894

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Napoleon comes to Elba and admits he made some “bêtises” a few years back

Baron Vincent [Charles Humbert Marie Vincent, first Director of Fortifications on the island of Elba], in his “Memorial de L’Ile d’Elbe ou détails sur l’arrivée et le séjour de Napoléon dans l’Ile d’Elbe,” written in Portoferraio in 1814 recounts in detail all the places which he had visited – often at dawn – with the Emperor throughout the island. Napoleon had known Baron Vincent for several years, as he noted to the Commissioners of the Allied Powers on board the frigate which brought him into Portoferraio bay on 3 May, 1814: “Colonel Vincent is the man who best judged events. I made some serious mistakes in not listening to him, and I would not be here if I had known that better”. — napoleon.org 

 Translated by google/me: 

The Emperor, during this walk, which was quite long, seemed very calm, busied himself with everything, incessantly questioning and wanting to know everything thoroughly. Back on board, he had lunch with a wonderful appetite. During this meal, he turned to me and started talking about the Santo Domingo expedition. “I have to render you,” he said to me, “striking justice in connection with this sad war; you had in the past given me excellent advice and made known useful truths; I didn't notice it, circumvented as I was by certain people who made me commit very serious blunders on this occasion.” Grand Marshal Count Bertrand protested and claimed the expression was inaccurate to describe some political errors: "I repeat to you that I have been made to commit stupid things,” said the Emperor, “that is, unfortunately for me, the correct word.”

Mémoires de tous : collection de souvenirs contemporains, tome 3.  Général du génie Vincent

#Elba #Baron Vincent #memoirs #Napoleon admits to blunders but he was made to do them