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In 1921, the Elenco
Ufficiale delle Famiglie nobili e titolate del Regno d'Italia (Official List of the Noble and Titled Families of the Kingdom of Italy) was approved: the list included all the families already entered in the regional registers, but an asterisk marked those that had been entered in
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of such titles as a part of their names. The
Consulta heraldica was formally suppressed only in 2010, in 1948, after the entry into force of the 'XIV Disposizioni transitorie e finali della Costituzione italiana' (Transitional and Final Provisions of the Constitution of the Italian Republic), with
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Those registered in the "Elenchi
Ufficiali Nobiliari italiani" (Official Italian Nobiliary Lists) (1921-1933 and Suppl. 1934–36), if they did not present the documents for registration in the Libro d'Oro della Nobiltà italiana within three years, were deleted from it: in the 1933 list, many families
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Riconoscimenti di predicati italiani e di titoli nobiliari pontifici nella
Repubblica Italiana , repertory edited by Walter Pagnotta, Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali - Ufficio Centrale per i Beni Archivistici, Rome, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1997 (Pubblicazioni degli
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The "Consulta
Araldica" (Heraldic Council) was established to prevent abuses and usurpations in the maintenance of existing noble titles in the old preunitarian Italian States, and was charged with keeping a Register of Noble Titles, in which official registration was compulsory in order to be
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documents was sufficient; collaterals, as long as the connection to the progenitor took place after the ennobling of the family, had to present the necessary civil status documentation, but the consent of the person (or his successors, if deceased) who had obtained the first registration of the
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Royal Decree no. 1990 of 7 September 1933 provided norms on the compilation of the "Libro d'Oro della Nobiltà italiana" (Golden Book of
Italian nobilitu) and required citizens listed in the "Elenco Ufficiale nobiliare" to apply, after specific recognition, for registration in said Book.
40:). Each family is treated on one or more pages, which include: country of origin, habitual residence of the family, noble titles and attributes with an indication of the origin and succession of noble titles, royal and governmental regulations, blazons and a part of the documented
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Tra gli esempi il "Libro d'oro delle Isole Ionie", compilato dalle autorità veneziane, probabilmente come aiuto nella raccolta delle tasse piuttosto che come libro di promozione od ordinamento sociale, o il "Libro d'oro di Corfù", pubblicato la prima volta nel
118:. Simply belonging to a noble family was not the only requisite, but also the positive opinion of Prefetto (Prefect, as local representative of the central government), authorities that had consulted the police and various other information.
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family was also required. Otherwise, and this was also the most frequent case for tax reasons, one had to apply ‘’ex novo‘’ for a decree of recognition. From this it follows that registration in the ‘’Libro d'Oro‘’ was a simple
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In 1896, the "Libro d'oro della nobiltà italiana", in which families who had received royal decrees conferring, confirming or renewing a noble title, or royal or ministerial decrees recognising their noble title, were entered.
303:, an official government body regulating the nobility which had been a department of the Ministry of the Interior. No titles are now recognized. Only those families bearing titles before 28 October 1922 (i.e. before
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To obtain inscription in the register 'Libro d'Oro' (Golden Book), in addition to submitting an application, one had to have paid the relative administrative fees, obtaining registration at the
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before 1962. It contains the list of families registered by a "provision of Grace" (motu proprio of the King, i.e. a concession) or justice (recognition of an ancient noble title by the
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entitled to public attribution of the title. In 1889 a list was drawn up of the families that had received decrees of concession or recognition of noble titles after the
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Ufficiale della Nobiltà italiana (Official List of the Italian Nobility) was approved, to which a list of Predicate of Peerage was also annexed.
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compilato in conformità dei decreti e delle lettere patenti originali e sugli atti ufficiali di archivio della
Consulta araldica dello Stato italiano
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It is structured in many handwritten and bound volumes, divided into two series and today kept at the
Archivio Centrale dello Stato in Rome-
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215:, the glass-making island in the Venetian Lagoon, was instituted in 1602, and from 1605 the heads of the Council of Ten granted the title
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Before the unification of Italy, many states and cities had official lists of families with noble titles, often called 'Libro d'oro'. The
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and Maria
Novella Borghetti, "Salaires et justice dans les corporations vénitiennes au 17e siècle: Le cas des manufactures de verre",
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The "Libro d'Oro della Nobiltà Italiana" is, to date, an official manuscript register in 41 volumes and has never been published.
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of Venice, such books had existed in many of the Italian states and cities before the unification of Italy. For example, the
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