Emanuele Fenzi

Emanuele Fenzi (1784 - 1875) was an Italian entrepreneur, banker, and politician, originally from Florence. He was made Senator of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and later of the Kingdom of Italy, Knight of the Sacred Military Order of Saint Stephen, Pope and Martyr, and Knight of the Order of Saint Joseph. He lived in these places: Palazzo di Via San Gallo, Villa Fenzi at Sant’Andrea in Percussina, house in the city of Livorno. Great Grand Father of Ida Fenzi.

Son of judge and jurist Cav. Jacopo Orazio Fenzi, after the death of his father (1803) was only nineteen and having already to provide for the family.Having already proved himself a worthy entrepreneur under his fathers guidance acquired in 1805 the management of "Bosi, Mazzarelli & C.", his keen entrepreneurial sense of initiative was soon rewarded by the economic flourish of the company.

This was to mark the beginning of an unstoppable economic success: in 1810 bought a building on Corso dei Tintori and married the daughter of a noble Milanese merchant Countess Ernesta Paffetta dei Lamberti, -issue four children- the same year with some fellow members of Bosi, Mazzarelli & C he founded the "Bosi, Mazzarelli & C." specializing in the manufacture and sale of tobacco and gained the monopole of the tobacco industry within the Grand Duchy of Tuscany between 1814 and 1820.

By 1821 he had already accumulated a sufficient fortune to start up his own Bank: Banca Fenzi, which was soon to branch out all over Italy and Europe. He opened a branch in Piazza della Signoria and since 1829 it acquired a Palazzo on Via San Gallo that was to become the Palazzo Fenzi, that had been put up for sale after the extinction of the Marucelli family.

In 1835 Fenzi seized the opportunity to finance the planned construction of a railway line between Florence and the port of Livorno, with the contractor Swiss French Pierre Senn of Livorno, hence entering into a contract with the Grand Ducal government in 1838 . The railway was one of the first in Italy and was named Leopolda in honour of the Grand Duke Leopold II of Lorraine.

He had a career as a politician as member of the Tuscan Senate between 1848 and 1849 and was amongst the biggest supporters of the return of the Grand Duke in Tuscany. After the fall of the Grand Duke he became senator of the New Kingdom of Italy in 1860, having sworn loyalty to the new government.

ources

Cambridge Journals, Isabella Bigazzi / Zeffiro Ciuffoletti "Palazzo Marucelli Fenzi Guida storico-artistica" Fenzi Family Archive Trust. Archivo Fenzi, Biblioteca de Risorgimento. "Il Possesso di Rusciano" EDIZIONI A.G.M. FIRENZE 1990. The Life of Emanuel Fenzi, Andrea Giutini, Postampa 2002. Verity Family Collection; Glamorgan Records Office, including the letters of Sebastiano Fenzi and Florence Cox from Sant' Andrea.

ee also

*Fenzi

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