Duc de San Martino

Overview

«Le duc de San Martino jouait de la contrebasse» (069.0526, 069/1877-03-25): a Neapolitan nobleman playing in the orchestra of the Società Filarmonica's concert of sacred music on 25 March 1877, which Marie attended. The Mon Journal t.10 index has «San Martino (duc de), 46».

Identity uncertain

We are not sure who this is. The printed programme Marie pasted in (069.0520) lists the double basses as «De Ferrante, Negri, Flocco», so the duke is either one of them under his family name or a player the programme leaves out. No ducal title «di San Martino» appears in the lists of Neapolitan noble families we checked (famiglienobilinapolitane.it; araldicando, «Famiglie nobili Napoletane», which has only a «Principe di San Martino» among the Biondi Morra and the Doria Pamphili Landi, and a «predicato di San Martino» among the Sifola). If you can identify him, we would be glad to hear from you.

Not to be confused with

The Certosa di San Martino, the monastery museum above Naples that Marie visited on 26 February 1877: Certosa_di_San_Martino.

References in Diary

• 1877-03-25 (069.0526)