Carlo Rossetti

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Carlo Rossetti (* 1736 in Milan ; † 1820 ) was a Venetian merchant and consul in Cairo .

With Domenico Francesco Belletti and Teodoro Zaccar from Damascus he founded the trading house "Belletti, Rossetti e Zaccar". which in 1782 was divided into the trading houses "Belletti e Zaccar" and "Rossetti". Rossetti was Ali Bey's purveyor to the court from 1768 to 1773 . Carlo Rossetti received the trade monopoly for baking soda from the lakes Bain-el-Bakkarah near Terane.

On July 7, 1770, Ali Bey Carlo Rossetti, who also had the exequatur of the Russian consul in Cairo, asked Grigori Grigoryevich Orlov for support against the central government in Constantinople ; Orlov demanded that Ali Bey become a vassal of Catherine II (Russia) , which Ali Bey did not accept.

On behalf of Ali Bey, Muhammad Bey occupied Abu Dahab, Jeddah and Mecca . The news of the success of Abu Dahab became known in Cairo on September 12, 1770. Ali Bey installed Hassan Bey El-Jedddvii as governor in Jeddah. In this economic situation Carlo Rossetti sent his brother Balthasar to Jeddah so that he should open a branch of the trading house there. Carlo Rosetti invested 26 million livres in the project in order to participate in the monopoly of trans-African trade. Balthasar came to Suez , where Hassan Bey El-Jedddvii met him with 15 of his retinue, as he had been expelled from Jeddah after Mohamed Abu El-Dahab had retired . Carlo Rossetti lived in Cairo from 1770 to 1782.

The Austrian ambassador at the Sublime Porte , Baron Herbert Rathkeal, learned that around 200 citizens of the Habsburg Empire were prisoners of war in Bursa. 1786 Carlos Rosseti obtained the release of ten to fifteen young citizens.

Ludovico Manin transferred the government of the Republic of Venice to Napoléon Bonaparte on May 12, 1797 . Through the Peace of Campo Formio , the Republic of Venice was divided between Austria, France and the Cisalpine Republic . Austria took its share with the capital Venice on January 18, 1798 under its sovereignty.

When Napoleon occupied Malta in the course of the Egyptian expedition , Murad Bey called Muhammad Carlo Rosetti over and questioned him. Formally, it was about good governance and the Alliance franco-ottomane , an agreement that Jean de La Forêt had concluded in 1536 between Suleyman I and Francis I (France) . Specifically, Murad Bey Muhammad was offered the governorship in Sauhaj through Carlo Rosetti . Murad's reply was: “Tell the commander in chief to gather his troops in Alexandria , I will reimburse the expenses for his army with 10,000 bags of gold. In this way he protects the lives of his soldiers and saves me the trouble of fighting him. "

In the absence of the British Consul George Baldwin Carlo Rossetti was chargé d'affaires .

In 1805 Carlo Rosetti replaced Franz Agostini as consul general of the Habsburg countries in Cairo and was ennobled as Carlo von Rosenhügel (Rözsadomb).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alberto Siliotti, Viaggiatori veneti alla scoperta dellÉgitto: Itinerari di storia e arte: rassegna internazionale di cinematografia archeologica , Rassegna internazionale di cinematografia archeologica, Verona, Italy
  2. ^ William Holt Yates, The modern History and Condition of Egypt, its Climate, Diseases , Volume 1
  3. ^ Wilhelm Havemann, Friedrich Strass, Handbook of Modern History, Volume 6, p. 42
  4. ↑ Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, History of the Three Last Centuries, Volume 6
  5. ↑ Rossetti, wholesaler, shipowner, manufacturer, landowner, patron of the arts, next to Domenico Francesco Belletti the most dynamic among the “stock market” merchants in Trieste at the end of the 18th century, he made undeniable merits for the mercantile maritime development of the littoral. He owes the first permanent connection between the Adriatic city and Egypt and the Levant. Communications from the Austrian State Archives, Volume 25 , Austrian State Archives, Studien Verlag, 1972, p. 273
  6. ↑ Enos Bronson, Select reviews of literature, and spirit of foreign magazines , 1810
  7. ↑ Thomas Philipp, Ulrich Haarmann, The Mamluks in Egyptian politics and society p. 142
  8. ↑ Tom Grundner, The Temple 2009 - 256 pp, p. 224
  9. ↑ Kurt F. Strasser, Harald Waitzbauer : Across the borders to Trieste: Hikes between the Carnic Alps and the Adriatic Sea p. 210
personal data
SURNAME Rossetti, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION European merchant and consul in Cairo
DATE OF BIRTH 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH 1820