Tommaso Bertelè

Tommaso Bertelè (born July 10, 1892 in Isolella di Cerea , † February 4, 1971 ) was an Italian ambassador and numismatist .

Life

Tommaso Bertelè was born in Isolella di Cerea in 1892. He studied social sciences and entered the foreign service in 1915, which initially employed him in Vienna and London . At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 he was Secretary of the Consiglio Supremo (Supreme Council) and was then transferred to Bern . A year later he first took part in the first three sessions of the League of Nations in Geneva and was involved in the conference on the successor states of Austria-Hungary as secretary in Rome from May to June 1921 and in Portorož from October to November 1921 . Subsequently, Bertelè was installed as a delegation secretary to the High Commissioner in Constantinople .

After he initially after 1926 Berlin had been ordered to Bertelè was from 1930 as legation secretary and also as charge d'affaires in Buenos Aires , from 1932 in Asunción and from 1933 in Montevideo used. In 1938 Bertelè received his appointment as consul general in Sarajevo , before he was transferred to Bogotá as envoy a year later . From 1942 he headed the history department of the Foreign Ministry under Galeazzo Ciano .

Bertelès's collection of Byzantine coins, comprising around 10,000 copies, was acquired in two parts by Philip Grierson for Dumbarton Oaks in 1956 and 1960 . His estate , an extensive library on the subjects of Venice and Byzantium in the late Middle Ages, was acquired by the Biblioteca Classense in Ravenna in 1990 .

The Fondo Bertelè there contains Bertelès' legacy in the form of his library, which consists of around 10,000 works dealing with the history of Byzantium and the economic and cultural relations, particularly between Venice and Constantinople, but also the history of Turkey between the Middle Ages and around 1900.

Publications (selection)

• Il Palazzo degli Ambasciatori di Venezia a Costantinopoli e le sue antiche memorie , Casa Editrice Apollo, Bologna 1931.
• The giro d'affari di Giacomo Badoer. Precisazioni e deduzioni , in: Files of the Eleventh International Byzantine Congress Munich 1958 , Munich 1960, pp. 48–57.
• I gioielli della corona bizantina dati in pegno alla Repubblica veneta nel sec. XIV e Mastino II della Scala , in: Studi in onore di Amintore Fanfani , vol. 2, Milan 1962, 90-177.
• Moneta veneziana e moneta bizantina , in: A. Pertusi (ed.): Venezia e il Levante fino al secolo XV , 1 / 1-2: Storia-Diritto-Economia , Florence 1973, pp. 3–146.

literature

• Giovanni Gorini: Tommaso Bertelè (1892-1971) , in: Studi Veneziani 13 (1973) 743-749.
• Chi è? Dizionario biografico degli Italiani d'oggi. F. Scarano, Rome, 1957, p. 63.

supporting documents

1. ^ Rivista italiana di numismatica e scienze affini 95 (1993), p. 79, note **.
2. ^ Philip Grierson: Byzantine Coinage , Dumbarton Oaks, 1999, p. 63.
3. ↑ Fondi Antichi e Speciali - Manoscritti e rari ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Biblioteca Classense (short description of the Fondo Bertelè ) 

predecessor	Office	successor
	Italian envoy in Bogota 1939	Luigi Cortese