Ten members of the Tamanti family each have a page of their own here. The rest of this history follows houses, farms, archives and wine. These pages turn to the people who led the family in their own generation, and whose work can still be traced in the records.
They include a doctor who gave an altar, and a landowner who wanted to leave his fortune to his town. There is a daughter whose marriage stands at the root of Brunello, and a widow who took her own son to court. There are a railway founder, a gentleman farmer, a grandmother who cared for war orphans and a lawyer who served as deputy mayor. The last two are engineers, father and son, who fell in the two world wars.
Each page gives the person at a glance and tells the story the documents allow. It lists the contributions and honours that can be cited, and ends with what is still to be found. The pages are meant to grow: as new acts, newspaper reports and family papers come to light, they will be added here first.
The ten leaders
- Dr. Jacomo Cosimo Tamanti (1649–1710): doctor, hospital rector, gonfaloniere and patron of the Madonna del Soccorso
- Gaetano Tamanti (1801–1861): landowner of Chiusa and would-be benefactor of his town
- Maria Tamanti Santi (1799–1864): ancestress of the Biondi Santi
- Anna Tamanti Ducci (1790–after 1847): a daughter of the Palazzo who went to law for her rights
- Dr. Antonio Tamanti (1810–1854): doctor of law, railway founder, liberal and Regio Economo
- Francesco Antonio Tamanti (1852–1932): gentleman farmer, councillor and benefactor
- Maria Giuliani Tamanti (1857–1936): champion of war orphans
- Avv. Giuseppe Tamanti (1876–1943): lawyer, deputy mayor, Catholic leader and justice of the peace
- Ing. Giovanni Tamanti (1881–1916): railway engineer, Silver Medal for Military Valour
- Capt. Gianni Tamanti (1909–1943): engineer, Gold Medal for Military Valour
Other members of the family are candidates for pages of their own: Giuliana Tamanti Colombini, Fidalma Tamanti Mattei Gentili, Luisa Tamanti Marchi, Canon Carl’Antonio Tamanti and the landlord Ermenegildo Tamanti (1804–1872).
Sources
These pages draw on the Palazzo Tamanti storybook (version 1.39, October 2026). Its main sources are: Lucia Carle, La patria locale (1996); the parish registers of Sant’Egidio; the civil registers of Montalcino (Portale Antenati and the Comune di Montalcino); the Catasto Generale della Toscana (CASTORE); the Tuscan law reports; the Gazzetta Ufficiale; Montalcino’s newspaper Il Progresso (Archivio della Memoria); Ilio Raffaelli, Montalcino (1892–1914) (2006); and Gerardo Nicolosi’s repertory of the Siena provincial councillors (2003).