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Founded under the name of "Ufficio
Araldico Italiano" by the Count Guelfo Guelfi Camajani in 1877
with the intention of stimulating and developing the study of Italian
heraldry, it started its activity with the publication of the "Bollettino
Araldico" which went on appearing for many years. Some of the works
edited during that period were the series of monographs "Le famiglie
Illustri e Titolate d'Italia" (1902-1907), and the "Libro
d'Oro della Toscana" (1908-1914). Of fundamental importance was
the "Dizionario Araldico" of which the Editor Hoepli of Milan
got two editions printed in 1897 and 1921. In 1927 the management of
the "Ufficio Araldico" was taken over by the Count Piero Guelfi
Camajani, son of the Founder, who brought it to a new and more modern
impulde. The name was changed to that of "Istituto Genealogico
Italiano" ti signify that its activity was directed particularly
to the study of the genealogy of Families. The means of research were
improved by filing name by name hundreds of works covering History,
Genealogies, Biographies, Chronicles,
Heraldry and Burial records, a
work that is still being carried on. The Library of the
Institute was
amplified and increased, is continually supplied with new acquisitions.
It now posesses over five thousand chosen works. |
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In 1952 the management of the Institute
was passed on to the Count Guelfo Guelfi Camajani, grandson of
the Founder, who now carries on the activity begun a hundred
years earlier.
In 1983 the Count Luigi Guelfi Camajani
undertook the management of the Institute for the premature death
of his brother Count Guelfo with whom he had co-operated for
the previous thirty years. |
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The expansion of the bibliographic
and archival work is constantly progressing and particularly
cared for has been the attendance to the Congresses of
Stockolm,
the Hague, Bern,
Liegi, Vienna, Munich,
Madrid and
with the publication of new works. The improvement achieved these
hundred years by the scientific and bibliographic equipment and
the constant desire of maintaining the name to standard of its
tradition make of this Institute a Body of the highest professional
qualification at the disposal of anyone
wishing to take advantage of its services. |
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