BIRTHPLACE OF ANTONIO ZOBI
Antonio Zobi was born in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa on June 15, 1808, and died in Rome in 1879.
He was first a scholar of art history and then of economics and, based on archival documents, devoted himself to the history of Tuscany under the Lorraine. However, at the time he was forbidden to publish his work. Later his Storia civile della Toscana dal 1737 al 1847 (Civil History of Tuscany from 1737 to 1848) was published in six volumes (1850-52) praising the reforming work of the princes of Lorraine. In 1861 (during the Risorgimento period which eventually concluded in the unification of Italy) he wrote his Cronaca degli avvenimenti d’Italia in 1859 (Chronicle of the events of Italy in 1859), and in 1870 published an essay on the political and economic changes that occurred in Italy from 1859 to 1868.
In 2018, the Unione Comunale del Chianti Fiorentino (an association of Florentine Chianti municipalities) decided to promote the life and work of Antonio Zobi, one of the most relevant and prolific historians of the nineteenth century, by giving life to a research project focusing on his contribution to the history of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany from the Medici to Lorraine. At the center of the project, presentation of the book Sulle orme di Antonio Zobi: la storia civile della Toscana dai Medici ai Lorena (In the Footsteps of Antonio Zobi: the civil history of Tuscany from the Medici to the Lorraine) edited by Zeffiro Ciuffoletti and published by Aska of Florence, containing the results of research carried out by the Association Passato Prossimo – Centro Fiorentino di studi storici e sociali, coordinated by the Unione Comunale del Chianti and with contribution from the Regional Council of Tuscany.