Ephemera

The Vittoria "Tina" Giannetti address book

Vittoria “Tina” Giannetti was born in Istanbul on 2 June 1916 to Silvio (1879-1929), Doctor of Pharmacy, and Karolina “Charlotte” Radziwonowicz (1894-1991). Exactly 30 years after her birth, Italy became a republic, and that day is now a national holiday. Curiously her brother, Severo “Nino” Giannetti (1919-1984), was born on 29 October, later the Republic Day of Turkey.

Moving to Rome after her father’s death, she met on the train her future husband, Gastone Buldrini (1899-1949), manager of what was then the most important Italian oil refinery, the “Aquila” in Trieste, with whom she had three children. Widowed while still very young, she died, twice a great-grandmother, on February 20th, 2004.

“Tina” Giannetti as a child with her mother.

Just married (to her left her best man, [Antonio] Alessandro Corpi, from Istanbul).

With her first great-granddaughter, in 1996.

This address book dates from the 1940s and is arranged in surname order (summarised below) and “Ist. f. Kansuk” meant the address was in the care of the Kansuk Pharmacy (former Canzuch and Giannetti).

ALLEN, Doris, Napoli
Amancic, fam., Ist. Şişli
Amione, ?, Ist. Beyoğlu
Atanasova, ?, Sofia
Avoglio, fam., Roma
BAHACH, fam., Ist. Beyoğlu
Barmagian, Giovanna, Istanbul
Barnatan, fam., Ist. Beyoğlu
Bary, Alberto, Ist. Missir Han
Bassi, Erminio, Ist. Beyoğlu
Bekir, ?, Ist. Maçka
Bergonzi, Mina, Roma
Blatgé, Georges, Canadel s. M.
Bonkowski, Jean, Ist. Maçka
Bonnici, Giuseppe, Ist. far. Kansuk
Bozzini, fam., Roma
Braggiotti, Polycarpe, Ist. Beyoğlu
Brentovich, Amedeo, Ist. Beyoğlu
Bursley, Robertina, Washington
CAFFIERO, Celestina, Roma
Campaner, Marcello, Ist. Beyoğlu
Caneva, p. Giuseppe, Ist. Beyoğlu
Canzuch, Euphemie, Ist. Nişantaşı
Canzuch, Jean, Αθήνα
Caraco, Jacques, Ist. Beyoğlu
Carneri, ?, Ist. Beyoğlu
Carocci, Agata, Frascati
Cassinelli, ?, Ist. Beyoğlu
Cecconi, p. Vitale, Ist. Beyoğlu
Chompret, ?, Canadel s. M.
Cittone, ?, Istanbul
Comneno, Josephine, ?
Comnenos, Achille, Αθήνα
Corpi, Wanda, Ist. Beyoğlu
Crespin, Jules, Yeşilköy
Czarkowski, Boleslaw, Ist. Beyoğlu
DALEGGIO, Minerva, Ist. Beyoğlu
Dapei, Eloi, Ist, Taksim
Dapei, Paul, Ist. Şişli
De Andria, Pierre, Ist. Maçka
De Angelis, Chrita, Ist. Beyoğlu
De Cillia, fam., Ist. Ayaz Pasha
De Santi, François, Ist. Beyoğlu
Delagrange, G. Fabre, Yeşilköy
Didelot, Georges, Canadel s. M.
Dohoda, Janouch, Ist. Beyoğlu
D’Organi, Corrado, ?
FANO, Alberto, Roma
Fano, Emilio, Roma
Feliziani, Elvira, Roma
Ferraris, Alessandro, Ist. Beyoğlu
Fridman, fam., Ist. Beyoğlu
GABINELLI, Caterina, Ist. far. Kansuk
Gabuzzi, Maria, G., L., Roma
Gaiarsa, Domenico, Ist. Beyoğlu
Gassin, dott. ?, Ist. Beyoğlu
Georgevich, fam., Ist. Beyoğlu
Georgiades, sig.ra ?, Ist. Beyoğlu
Giannetti, Bertha, Baden b. Wien
Giannetti, Giuseppe, Ist. far. Kansuk
Glavany, Hellène, Ist. Beyoğlu
Glavany, Theodore, Istanbul
Gorczinska, Jeannette, Ist. Beyoğlu
Grullero, Jolanda, Ist. Beyoğlu
Guillois, Felix, Ist. Beyoğlu
Guillois, Jeanne, Ist. Beyoğlu
Guillois, mons. Giuseppe, Ist. Pangalti
HARALAMBIDIS, Emmanuele, Ist. far. Kansuk
Harty, Edgar, Marble H. USA
Harty, Edward, Αθήνα
Harty, Fred, Ist. Beyoğlu
Harty, Winnie, Αθήνα
Honegger, fam., Ist. Beyoğlu
KANSUK, Muhittin, Ist. far. Kansuk
Karneska, Maria, Ist. Beyoğlu
Kennedy, Mildred, Ist. Beyoğlu
LADICPS, Epiro, Roma
Lambuski, Blanche, Ist. far. Kansuk
Lange, sr. M. Antonietta, Ist. Beyoğlu
Lombardi, Rosa, Ist. Beyoğlu
NAGEAR, fam., Ist. Beyoğlu
Nigri, Francesco, Ist. Beyoğlu
Nigri, Giacomo, Ist. Beyoğlu
Nikolany, Federico, Como
OTTONE, Giuseppe, Ist. Beyoğlu
PAKIZE, ?, Ist. Beyoğlu
Panayotides, fam., Roma
Paparazzi, Ernestina, Roma
Paravano, Bianca, Roma
Pari, Mario, Ist. Beyoğlu
Pellegrini, dott. ?, Ist. Beyoğlu
Pervitich, Auguste, Ist. Nişantaşı
Picco, fam., Ist. Beyoğlu
Picecchi, Maria, Roma
Pomidori, Omero, Ist. Beyoğlu
Providenti, Ferdinando, Roma
RACCO-MINNITI, fam., Catanzaro
Radziwonowicz, Karol, Ist. Beyoğlu
Ratyński, dott. Martin, Canadel s. M.
Ratyński, Hedwige, Ist. Beyoğlu
Reggio, Natalia, Roma
Resso, Aleco, Ist. far. Kansuk
Rigandias, Joseph, Ist. Beyoğlu
Rizzo, Edgardo, Ist. Beyoğlu
Rossolato, fam., Αθήνα
SADI, bey ?, Ist. Beyoğlu
Sammartino, Ubaldo, Roma
Scheggi, fam., Ist. Beyoğlu
Selvelli, Louis, Ist. Osmanbey
Serpas, fam., Ist. Beyoğlu
Sinani, Fotini, Ist. Beyoğlu
Solaro, Anais, Istanbul
TALASSO, Eugenio, Ist. Beyoğlu
Tascian, ?, Ist. far. Kansuk
Tedeschi, sig.na, Roma
Tokatoff, Victor, Ist. Taksim
Tokay, Joseph, Ist. Taksim
Trombi, Fanny, Ist. Beyoğlu
Tubini, Rose, Ist. Bebek
VACCARO, Ida, Roma
Vacondio, Anna, Ist. Beyoğlu
Valle, Alberto, Ist. Beyoğlu
Varisco, Antonio, Tirana
Varisco, Maria, Roma
Velasti, Edgard, Ist. Beyoğlu
Violi, Giuseppe, Ist. Beyoğlu
Vuccino, Alberto, Ist. Galata
ZELLICH, Fanny, Ist. Beyoğlu
Zellich, Louis, Ist. Galata.

Images and information courtesy of Guido Buldrini, 2022.