Putignano - Puglia - Italy

The Prince Romanazzi Carducci prince of Santo Mauro

Romanazzi Carducci Grand'Uff. Guglielmo, Prince of Santo Mauro, (1881-1968).

principe Romanazzi Carducci di Santo Mauro

Last descendant of a very noble Putignano family that has expressed illustrious personalities over the centuries.

Son of Giovanni Antonio Romanazzi Carducci (who was several times Municipal Councilor and Provincial and died 1926 when he was already a Senator of the Kingdom) and of Baroness Maria d'Amely Melodia, he studied in Cava dei Tirreni, Naples and Florence.

Brilliant Cavalry Officer, in 1904 he married Donna Giulia Countess Saluzzo of Corigliano Princess of Santo Mauro. The Prince in Putignano participated in World War I.

Il principe a Putignano Before and after the war he devoted himself passionately to the work of land transformation in his fief of Palagiano. He also participated in political life: he was Municipal Councilor of Palagiano, Provincial Councilor of Taranto; Podestà of Putignano. He was interested in artistic events: in Naples he promoted and directed the Autonomous Body of San Carlo Theater; in Bari he managed the Petruzzelli for four years, offering memorable shows.

Shortly before his death, Don Guglielmo Romanazzi - Carducci donated to the Municipality of Putignano the Palace in Plebiscito Square (see page 91) and the Villa of San Pietro Piturno, the first because it was a city museum, the second by to allocate to a nursing home. This is "a noble gesture of magnificent munificence and princely patronage, which did not have the same in the history of our town", as stated in the minutes of the solemn meeting of the City Council on 16 January 1967, in the which one accepted the donation.

Genealogical Tree Romanazzi Carducci Family

Family Romanazzi Carducci

EU 1922: Marquis, mpr., ric. 1899 - Giovanni Antonio, of Giuseppe of Giovanni Antonio (e of Rachele Carducci). Brothers: Guglielmo, Giuseppe, Orazio, Leonardo, Lorenzo, Lodovico, Rachele.

ES 1960: Guglielmo, of Giovanni Antonio, Principe, Marchese, Don; Giuseppe, of Giuseppe, of Giovanni Antonio, Noble of Marchesi; Lorenzo, of Giuseppe, of Giovanni Antonio, Noble of Marquis; Rachele, di Giuseppe, di Giovanni Antonio, Noble of Marchesi.

Marquis (mpr.) recognised with C.N.I. of 10.IV.1969.

A1. Marquis Giovanni Antonio (* 23.III.1847 † 13.V.1926) (title recognised with Ministerial Decree of Mini 16.VI.1899)

giovanni Antonio Romanazzi Carducci

= Noble Maria Amelj (* Binetto 20.II.1860 † 6.IV.1886).

B1. Marquis Don Guglielmo (* Putignano 6.V.1881 † Bari 6.III.1968), authorized to assume marital appointments the title of Prince of Santo Mauro with Royal Decree motu of 6.VI.1935, Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

= Napoli 1.II.1904 Countess Donna Giulia Saluzzo Princess of Santo Mauro (* Napoli 9.I.1884 † Napoli 21.II.1948), authorized to transmit the title with Ministerial Decree of 8.V.1933.

C1. Donna Maria Alasia (* Napoli 14.XII.1904 † ?), Princess of Santo Mauro since 1968.

= Napoli 14.VII.1932 Don Mariano Lombardo Duke of Cumia

B2. Giulia (* Putignano 27.XI.1882 † Napoli 3.II.1968)

= Napoli 2.VII.1906 Duke, Marquis and Count Don Pietro Piromallo Capece Piscicelli Duke of Capracotta

B3. Ottavia (* Putignano 19.I.1884 † Gioiosa Jonica 30.I.1973)

= 20.VIII.1916 Alberto Macri

A2. Giuseppe (* Putignano 8.V.1851 † 24.III.1930), Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

= Portici 27.IV.1887 Donna Rachele de Notaristefano of Dukes of Vastogirardi (* Napoli 28.X.1864 † Bari 8.II.1951).

B1. Giulia (* Bari 12.IX.1888 † ivi 8.VIII.1971)

B2. Anna (* Bari 1.I.1890 † 13.III.1916).

B3. Marchese Leonardo (* Bari 8.IV.1893 † ivi 1985)

= Andria 28.VI.1922 Maria Porro Spagnoletti Zeuli († VI.1986).

C1. Marchese Giovanni Antonio (* Bari 10.I.1924)

= 10.VII.1957 Luisa Guaccero

D1. Giulio (* Bari 18.VII.1958)

= 2.IX.1989 Giuliana Mucelli

E1. Maria Alasia (* San Donà di Piave 23.VII.1990)

E2. Edoardo Leopoldo (* San Donà of Piave 18.VII.1993)

D2. Alessandro (* Bari 18.VI.1961).

A3. Orazio (* Putignano 7.IX.1856 † 27.VIII.1912), Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

= 15.IX.1894 Laura Tateo (* 23.XII.1875 † ?).

B1. Ludovico (* Putignano 15.VIII.1896 † Bari 11.VI.1960).

B2. Giulia (* Putignano 21.XI.1897 † ?)

= Filippo Alfonso Grilli

B3. Armando (* Putignano 7.I.1901 † ?)

= Maria Immacolata Macrì

The public administration

The city chronicles tell that many devout people from Putignano led by a priest left for pilgrimages to Monopoli on the eve of Ferragosto. The citizens took part in the procession in honor of Maria SS della Madia. At the same time monopolitan pilgrims came to the church of S. Maria la Greca to venerate the silver image of the Assunta, which in 1798 was requisitioned by the Bourbons. The two groups met along the road and exchanged the kiss of peace. The people of Putignano, however, were obliged to return to the city no later than 3:00 pm on the day of August 15th, as since the most remote times, every year on this day the election of the city government took place.

The elected took office on 1 September, the day on which the administrative year began in the Greek manner. The citizens of age who paid a tax were voters.

In order to designate the administrators, they all met in the church of St. Peter under the chairmanship of a Governor (if a doctor) or a Captain (if not a doctorate) appointed by the Balì, according to the rules of Ferdinando king of the Ostrogoths.

In 1636, due to various disagreements that had taken place, the People's Government ceased in favor of the aristocratic family leaders of three classes: nobles, artisans and peasants.

With this method the voters no longer indicated the Administrators, but 110 (then reduced to 33) Family heads who made up the General Council with the doctors, who had the onerous task of establishing annual fees and proceeding to elect the mayor and the others Authority.

The Mayor had to be Nobili, in the event that a judge or notary was elected, the one who had ascended to this office, considered himself automatically Noble (as provided for by the decree of Queen Giovanna II) “It is not only noble he who is of original nobility , but also those who live with political, literary and without mechanical art nobility. "

The same voters elected six Decurions (Heads of the Municipal Administration) commonly called Eletti, also named three Camerlenghi (he was the one who kept the keys to the city and the prisons, he was the holder of the security of the walls and the city.) One of which was assent approved by the Balì, the rationales, the lawyers, the zecchieri (for weights and measures) and the Portulano (he was the one who verified and eventually punished the occupations of the public ground, he was interested in public works and prevented the predial services).

The Portulano and the Mayor then had to be confirmed by the Regia Camera della Sommaria. Finally, 24 people were proposed to the Balì for the choice of 12 Jurors, who depended on the Camerlengo and who had to proceed with the election of all the other employees of the University.

The Mayor and the Elect nominated from the artisan class the Country Deputies who had the task of acting as Catapani (who took care of the annona), that is to say, they provided for the wheat, the meat and all that which the citizenship needed.

This regime that did not give much freedom to the elected, lasted until the expulsion of the Knights of Malta by Napoleon I. Since it was thought that the power wears out and mounts the head, it proceeded to the annual renewal of the offices and then to the elections from scratch . The doctors after the administration became part of the General Council, so the number of Doctors grew so much that the scholar and Poet Giambattista Notarangelo (1659-1744) appealed this event as a Flood and wrote "Look how many doctors and wise men, how many Laws passed from this city to the learned, this city can already be called the Lyceum of Athens. Do you deceive me, or won't it be the high school of Arcadia? "

The Administration of Justice

The city of Putignano has always had its own judiciary magistrate, because it is considered more important than the neighboring countries. Thus the civil, penal and error justice was administered by a Substitute or Lieutenant of the Balì, the nomination of the Master of Acts (Chancellor), the Tax Attorney and Consultor. However, the citizen has the right to appeal to the Dean or to the Royal Hearing.

There is also the tribunal of the Bagliva, which included in addition to the Maestro d'Atti, also two judges, one appointed by the mayor and the other by the Balì, although at the end of each year the treated documents carefully examined by two upright appointed citizens University. For the ecclesiastics instead there was another court presided over by the Vicar General of the Bailiwick and by special judges chosen by the Bailiff.

The Magistrates worked on the ground floor of the Balì building, where the prisons were.

At the left corner of the Andresini palace, stood the column of the Gogna to which the condemned man, facing the people, tied with an iron collar and chain at his feet. Those who had failed, on the other hand, had to dare to turn their backs on the citizens. The column is currently preserved in the villa Karusio.

Under the French government the Justice of the Peace was elected while under the Bourbon government the District Judge was elected. The supreme civil lord was the Balì or the Commendatore, in his absence his throne was held by the Governor or Caitano who resided in the Balì palace.

Gioacchino Murat

Gioacchino Murat a Putignano General Joachim Murat abolished the servitude of the land that had reduced the peasants to poverty. Thus increased the wealth of the country, the common pastures became private surrounded by dry-stone walls, the forests were the first occupants and the planters of vineyards and gardens escaped the duties. This brought fiscal improvement and well-being to the citizens after so many years of regime changes and raids that completely absorbed the attention of the administrators. Murat arrived in Bari without knowing it and spent one night (between 15 and 16 April 1813) in Putignano, a guest in the Villa near the small church of S. Giovanni belonging to Raffaele Marascelli, on his trip to Puglia. In exchange for the hospitality received, Murat gave Marascelli a white horse.

The Tree of Freedom

The last of the three Olmi trees planted by the French in 1806 solemnly vigorously stands in front of the Town Hall, in memory of the new ideas of Freedom and Equality of democracy. When the plebs were planted, they accompanied the feast with songs, sounds and the trees as was customary at the time were blessed by the clergy. This happened, despite the fact that the democratizers were acted with fisci and threats to life, for this reason there were blood crimes and bullying everywhere. The horrors of popular turmoil were made even more acute by the intervention of those who, with the occasion, in order to affirm their supremacy, gave vent to rancor and hatred, each obviously claimed to be able to assert their party with the will to overwhelm the opponents. In this way they tried to oust the Cavaleans of Malta with the complicity of the people and destroyed the coat of arms which, rebuilt with public money, in 1747, surmounted the arch of Porta Barsento.