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The Traveler with the Red Umbrella: Giacomo Costantino Beltrami THE TRAVELER WITH THE RED UMBRELLA: GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI 1779 Giacomo Costantino Beltrami was born in the city of Bergamo in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, 16th of 17 children. His parents were Giovan Battista, the Doganiere Generale of the Repubblica Veneta, and Margherita Carozzi. In about this year Gasparo Grimani wrote the Pope pleading for reconciliation. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI 1786 Jonas Hanway died, credited with having been the 1st Englishman to habitually carry an umbrella. Francis Grose’s TREATISE OF ANCIENT ARMOUR AND WEAPONS stirred interest among the English in antique arms and armor (actual scholarship would not begin until 1824, with Samuel Rush Meyrick’s CRITICAL INQUIRY INTO ANCIENT ARMOUR). In St. Petersburg, Fischer’s L’ART DE L’ESCRIME (THE ART OF FENCING) described a German fencing style. HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI 1793 The baptismal records of the Italian city of Bergamo were destroyed in a fire at the Church of S. Eufemia — in consequence we are unable to learn the exact date of birth of Giacomo Costantino Beltrami. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT Giacomo Costantino Beltrami “Stack of the Artist of HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI 1797 Venice fell under Austrian control (this would continue until 1805). Napoléon Bonaparte emancipated the Jews of Venice (in the course of his campaigns across Europe, Napoleon would replace the kingdoms he conquered with republics and Jews would be set free from the ghettos). In order to generate this liberalism and human freedom and dignity, Napoléon needed of course to be in charge — so he ordered his soldiers to enhance the spread of malaria by flooding the plains around Mantua, Italy. BIOTERRORISM Giacomo Costantino Beltrami left Bergamo to become a soldier of the Repubblica Cisalpina, the affiliation of which was with France rather than Italy. LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Giacomo Costantino Be HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI March: Giacomo Costantino Beltrami joined the Freemasons and would begin to work his way into the Napoleonic courts in Italy, at first as a mere interpreter. (In after years later, when the province of Le Marche would again fall under the purview of the papal government of Italy, he would undergo questioning for such activities.) HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI 1801 In Turin, Italy, Giacomo Costantino Beltrami became an Ispettore dei Magazzini della Commissione. Gasparo Grimani died. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI 1803 December 20, Tuesday: Samuel Hopkins died in Newport. He had been aware that he was dying, and preached a sermon about his own anticipated demise. ON HIS OWN DEATH Though he had begun as a slaveholder, he had been the 1st of the Congregational ministers of New England to renounce human enslavement. He had been one of the sponsors of the enactment of 1774 which had interdicted the importation of negro slaves into Rhode Island, and of the enactment of 1784 which had declared that all children of slaves born in Rhode Island after the following March should be born free. The obituary oration would be delivered by the Reverend Levi Hart, D.D. OBITUARY ORATION In a move that more than doubled the land surface of the nation, the United States of America paid France approximately $20 per square mile to extinguish its claim to approximately 1,000,000 square miles of “Louisiana.” “Rights” to a general territory of 828,000 square miles1 which went under the name “Louisiana,” that is, “Land of Louis XV, King of France” (although whatever paltry “rights of ownership” Louis XV had had to this real estate, which had always been debatable, had passed to his erstwhile heir Napoléon Bonaparte) were sold to the national government of the United States of America for the paltry sum of $0.04 per acre. 1. It sounds much more impressive to say 828,000 square miles than 914 miles square, since in the conversion from square miles to miles square –as in the conversion from a red nation to our human nation– the relationship is of a power. HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI Once President Thomas Jefferson had procured that land doubling the size of the United States (14 new states would eventually be formed) from the peoples who actually lived on it, such as the Dakota nation, that land would belong to them! (However, when the national government of the United States of America subsequently went about purchasing rights to such territories from weaker people, they weren’t in the habit of paying nearly as much as this per acre, even when the rights to the real estate were far more real than whatever rights had devolved from King Louis of France.)2 READ THE FULL TEXT 2. Since we’ve spoken above about “rights” to this land, we should also say something about the “rights” of the peoples who were living on this land. Joseph J. Ellis has pointed out in AMERICAN CREATION that President Jefferson set us up for the extension of slavery westward, and for the removal of native American tribes from east of the Mississippi River, on this day December 20, 1803, when he specified that in these new federal territories, rights were granted only to the “white” inhabitants (we’re not saying that Jefferson had any real option other than to play the game out in this way, we’re only saying that this one word was in fact the critical juncture, the pivot point on which the world has turned, the thingie that would set us up for a whole lot of our subsequent agony). HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI 1805 In Parma, Italy, Giacomo Costantino Beltrami became a Sotto-Ispettore degli Equipaggi, and then the Cancelliere di Giustizia nel Dipartamento del Taro. HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI 1806 Napoléon Bonaparte was bringing the Holy Roman empire to an end. His Berlin Decree began the “Continental System” (closing Continental ports to British vessels). He declared Joseph Bonaparte to be King of Naples (Joseph would rule until 1808, when Joachim Murat would acquire that title). He declared Louis Bonaparte to be King of Holland. Prussia declared war on France. Britain blockaded the French coast. A French army under General Joachim Murat entered Warsaw. A German heard the pounding of Nappy’s cannon in the distance and then witnessed the French conqueror’s triumphal ride through Jena. This now- famous German heard the thumps in the distance, and “flashed” on the fact that this represented — the unwitting realization of Reason! Reason had been rapping on the door and asking “Please let me in, please let me in.” While they were in town the French troops stole all this famous German’s money. This now-famous German philosopher thus had two ways to go, he could either detest such a dangerous and powerful leader — or might bring himself to adore him. He chose to adore and later this man would become the publisher of a pro-French newspaper in Stuttgart, the Bamberger Zeitung. He came to perceive the French commander who had robbed him as what he termed the Weltseele, the personification of reason. (Yes, go figure.) His name was G.W.F. Hegel and at this point he was writing away at his influential THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND. The foundation-stone of his philosophy, upon which everything else evidently was to be predicated, was “Nothing succeeds like success.” (Can you tell how impressed I am?) Giacomo Costantino Beltrami became a Vice-Ispettore delle Armate. When he began to do bookkeeping work for the Beretta Enterprise, which had a contract to provide rations for 2 divisions of Napoleon’s troops, his position would enable him, it seems, to very rapidly accumulate a great deal of money. Napoleon’s invasions formed the Confederation of the Rhine and destroyed the remnants of the Holy Roman Empire. Francis II, the former Emperor, renounced the title in favor of a new one: Emperor of Austria. WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI 1809 In Macerata, Italy, Giacomo Costantino Beltrami became Giudice della Corte del Dipartamento del Musone. He became friends with Giulia Spada dei Medici, noble mother of eight children. HDT WHAT? INDEX GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI GIACOMO COSTANTINO BELTRAMI 1814 April 6, Wednesday: When the Emperor Napoléon was informed of the decision the Tsar of Russia had made on the previous day, declining the Emperor’s offer, he agreed in principle to abdicate unconditionally. He commented, or maybe not, “Able was I ere I saw Elba.” The French Senate declared the throne vacant and invited Louis Stanislas Xavier, brother of Louis XVI, to occupy it as Louis XVIII and restore the Kingdom of France. A unified diet of the Swiss cantons, both aristocratic and democratic, met at Zürich to create a constitution. The exile of Napoleon to the island of Elba of course began to make a great deal of difference in the Italian political fortunes of Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (but then Napoleon would return from Elba).
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