Social Victorians/People/San Vito

Also Known As

 * Family name: Visconti
 * Carlo Ermes Visconti, Marchese di San Vito

Demographics

 * Nationality: Italian

Family

 * Carlo Ermes Visconti, Marchese di San Vito (25 November 1834 – 30 May 1911 )
 * Teresa Sanseverino Vimercati Visconti di San Vito (1838-1913)
 * Ermes (17 January 1860 – 1929)
 * Roberto (4 July 1862 – 1922)
 * Mercede (20 June 1874 – )

Organizations

 * Risorgimento of Milan
 * Mayor, Sommo
 * President, Lombard Historical Society
 * Member, Archaeological Council of the Brera Academy
 * Consul of Portugal in Milan
 * Member, Governing Council of the Municipal Artistic Museum, Milan
 * President, Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano

Timeline
1897 July 2, the Marquis de San Vito attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Carlo Ermes Visconti, Marchese di San Vito (at 691) was one of the Mousquetaires, dressed in a "tunic of ruby silk velvet embroidered with the arms; blue velvet trunks."

Notes and Questions

 * 1) Carlo Esme's wife was Countess Teresa of Count Faustino Vimercati Sanseverino Tadini,  also Teresa Sanseverino Vimercati Visconti di San Vito. Did she attend the ball?
 * 2) Gilda Pansiotti Cambon D'Amico painted a portrait of Teresa Sanseverino Vimercati Visconti di San Vito in 1930.
 * 3) Carlo Ermes Visconti's 18th-century ancestor was Ermes Visconti, an Italian Romantic poet.