User:Ketil3/Franchetti

Franchetti is a jewish noblefamily in Italy, it came from Tunisia in the 1700s.


 * Abramo Franchetti
 * Giuseppe Franchetti (ca. 1725–after 1796), textile merchant in Tunisia, m. Diamanta Baruch
 * Reuben (Raimondo) Franchetti (Tunisia, ?–Livorno, 1828) m. Isabella Kohen Laras (Trieste, 1776–after 1841)
 * Abramo Franchetti (Livorno, 1805–Torino, 1887) bankier and baron, m. Allegra Levi Sonsino (Livorno, 1810–Torino, 1875).
 * Raimondo Franchetti (Livorno, 1828–Reggio Emilia, 1905) m. Sara Louise Rotschild (Frankfurt, 1834–Venezia, 1924) daughter of Anselm Salomon von Rothschild, banker. Sara & Raimondo lived at 1878–1922 in Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti in Venezia.
 * Alberto Franchetti (Torino, 1860–Viareggio, 1942) opera singer and director, m. Margherita Levy (Reggio Emilia, 1865–Coviolo, 1938); m. Chiara Marini (Florence, 1903–Firenze, 1983)
 * Raimondo Franchetti (Firenze, 1889–Cairo, 1935, plane crash) explorer, m. 1920 to countess Bianca Moceniga Rocca (Venezia, 1901–Roma, 1958).
 * Lauretana (Venezia, 1923–Treviso, 1955, tuberculosis), nicknamed "Simba" (swahili for Lion), gave fertility advice to Audrey Hepburn
 * Lorian (Venezia, 1924–Roma, 2010), m. Loffredo Gaetani dell'Acquila d'Aragona Lovatelli. Good friend of Audrey Hepburn
 * Raimondo Nanuk Franchetti (Paris, 1926–Venezia, 1997), nicknamed "Nanuk" for white bear. Was a friend of author Ernest Hemingway, who hunted with him in Caorle Lagoon.
 * Afdera Franchetti (Preganzol, 1931–) named after Afdera (volcano), m. Howard Taylor 1954–57; 1957–61 to Henry Fonda (whom Audrey Hepburn had introduced)
 * Arnold Franchetti (Lucca, 1911–Connecticut, 1993) composer, emigrated to USA.
 * Giorgio Gioacchino Franchetti (Torino, 1865–Venezia, 1922, suicide) pianist, composer, art who in 1894 bought Ca' d'Oro and established Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, m. Marion von Hornstein (Munchen, 1870–Florence, 1948).
 * Carlo Franchetti (Vienna, 1896–Treviso, 1953) m. Virginia Merighi di Jesi (Vienna, 1896–?)
 * Giorgio Franchetti (Roma, 1920–ca. 2005), patron to brother-in-law and artist Cy Twombly
 * Luisa Tatiana Franchetti (Roma, 1934–Roma, 2010) m. 1959 (ended 1964) to Cy Twombly (Lexington, Va., 1928–Roma, 2011), painter
 * Cyrus Alessandro Twombly (Roma, 1959–), painter
 * Isach Franchetti (Livorno, 1808–Firenze, 1875), bankier, m. Elena Tedeschi (Genova, 1820–?)
 * Leopoldo Franchetti (Livorno, 1847–Roma, 1917, suicide?) lawyer, writer m. Alice Hallgarten (New York, 1874–Leysin, Ch., 1911)