The Tamanti Family Tree

No single document sets out the Tamanti family from beginning to end. What survives is a published genealogy, a run of parish baptisms, civil marriage and birth acts, and the cadastral ledgers that recorded who owned what. The tree below draws them together. It is the line followed through this storybook, not a claim about who inherited first or who owned the palazzo at each stage.

The backbone is Lucia Carle’s genealogy of the descendants of Cristofano of Buonconvento (Carle, La patria locale, 1996, p. 292). Where the original records confirm or correct it, the entry says so. Dates marked “c.” are worked out from ages given in census or civil records.

The core line, generation by generation

• Cristofano of Buonconvento, “Il Tempesta” (d. 1590). The earliest secure ancestor in Carle’s genealogy.
  • Scipione Barnaba Tamanti (1574–1657)
    • Children named in the Donnoli marriage records: Carlo, whose second wife was Lavinia Donnoli (born 1629; the marriage belongs to the 1650s or 1660s), and Fulvia, who married Girolamo Donnoli on 10 September 1639. A daughter, Christofana, left a legacy to pay for Masses.
    • Carlo Giuseppe Tamanti (baptized 4 June 1627, d. c. 1666), whose first wife was Lucrezia Borghesi
      • Dr Jacomo Cosimo Tamanti (1649–1710), who married Anna Menchini. He was Rettore of the town hospital from 1692/93 to 1704 and the first Tamanti gonfaloniere (1701), and with Anna gave the right altar of the Madonna del Soccorso in 1699. He was probably the “Tamanti Dr.” who held five farms in 1692. Family leader page.
        • Ermenegildo Gaetano Tamanti (b. 1704; baptism indexed at Sant’Egidio, 13 November 1704). His wife was Cristofana Feci.
          • Giacomo Tamanti (c. 1741–1819). He never married. He was Filandro’s elder brother, not his son.
          • Filandro Tamanti (b. 1755; baptism indexed 27 February 1755)
            • Anna (b. c. 1790), who married Guido Orazio Ducci of Subbiano in 1809 and later took her son to court over her marriage settlement (family leader page)
            • Francesca Maria Giacoma, who married Mario Giuliani in 1811
            • Barbara (b. c. 1801), daughter of Filandro and Teresa Capei, who married Luigi Benigni in 1820
            • Ermenegildo Tamanti (15 February 1804 – 11 February 1872), who married Marianna Tassinari
              • Giacomo Tamanti (b. c. 1828), who married Clementina Bagni in 1848
            • Dr Antonio Tamanti (1810–1854), son of Filandro and Teresa Capei. Doctor of law, a founder of the Siena–Empoli railway (1844–45) and Regio Economo of the bishopric. He married Fidalma Muzzarelli, daughter of the surgeon Leopoldo Muzzarelli, in April 1847; she died in the family house in 1906. Family leader page.
              • Francesco Antonio Tamanti (6 November 1852 – 23 December 1932), called Antonio after his confirmation, who married Maria Giuliani (1857–1936) at Lucca on 15 November 1873 (family leader pages: Francesco Antonio, Maria Giuliani)
                • Avv. Giuseppe Tamanti (b. 1876), lawyer, deputy mayor of Montalcino from 1907 and justice of the peace from 1928, who married Agnese Calcagni in Rome in 1913 (family leader page). Their daughter Cecilia (b. 1917) married Alessandro Feliziani, and this is the Feliziani line, still at the palazzo.
                • Giovanni Tamanti (1881–1916), who married Francesca Barluzzi. He was killed at Col di Lana and awarded the Silver Medal.
                  • Gianni (Giovanni) Tamanti (1909–1943), killed at Enfidaville and awarded the Gold Medal
                  • Giuliana Tamanti, who married Giovanni Colombini (1906–1976)
                • Fidalma Tamanti (b. 11 December 1878), who married the deputy and later senator Paolo Mattei Gentili in Montalcino on 14 October 1901; they had eight children. The 1901 marriage calls her father Antonio, the name Francesco Antonio used after his confirmation.
                • Luisa Tamanti (b. 14 August 1884), who married Prof. Avv. Antonio Marchi (1873–1935), professor of Roman law, rector of the University of Macerata and vice-president of the Siena provincial council, in Rome in April 1908.

The parallel branch of Dr Francesco

Carle’s chart also shows a second branch of the late eighteenth century. The Biondi-Santi story comes from this branch. Dr Francesco was another son of Ermenegildo Gaetano, and so Filandro’s younger brother: the 1801 baptism of his son Gaetano calls him “Dr Francesco, son of the late Ermenegildo”. He is shown separately here to keep the main line readable.

• Dr Francesco Tamanti (b. 1757), who married Appollonia Bardi. He had died by June 1810.
  • Maria Tamanti (c. 1798–1864), who married Clemente Santi on 12 February 1819 (family leader page)
    • Paolina Santi (b. 13 December 1819)
    • Caterina Santi, who married Jacopo Biondi in 1844. Their son Ferruccio (1848–1917) became known as Ferruccio Biondi Santi.
  • Gaetano Tamanti (2 December 1801 – 2 July 1861). He owned the Chiusa farmhouse in 1820, never married, and in 1847 asked the Grand Duke’s leave to leave his fortune to Montalcino (family leader page).

The chapters of the tree

Four pages follow the line in more detail.

• From Buonconvento to Montalcino: origins in the 1500s and 1600s, the family’s civic rank, the anchor-and-three-stars arms and a book inscribed in 1675.
• Francesco and Filandro: two branches: the 1700s to the 1810s, a run of family marriages, and the “Tamanti Minori” farm of 1810.
• Antonio Tamanti and a changing Tuscany: Dr Antonio, the marriages of the 1840s and the later nineteenth century.
• Giovanni and Gianni Tamanti: two soldiers, father and son, and the memorial on the facade.

Reading the tree with care

Most links in the main line now rest on original acts. Two former doubts are settled. Dr Antonio’s wife was Fidalma Muzzarelli, as Carle says: the April 1847 marriage return was first misread as “Giuditta”, and Antonio’s 1854 death act and Fidalma’s own death act of 1906 confirm her name. Francesco and Antonio are one man: his 1852 parish birth entry adds “alla cresima Antonio”, and the baptisms of his children call him “Antonio (Francesco)”, son of the late Dr Antonio. Carle’s tree still reverses the Santi and Biondi surnames in the Maria and Caterina marriages. The latest generations also draw on the owner’s Ancestry family-tree file and on first-hand family accounts.

Sources on this page

• Lucia Carle, La patria locale (Regione Toscana / Marsilio, 1996), family tree p. 292; notes pp. 296, 298
• Indice dei battezzati di Montalcino, parrocchia di S. Egidio, fascicoli 495–498 (Ermenegildo 1704; Filandro 1755)
• Bruno Bonucci, “Per una genealogia dei Donnoli di Montalcino”, Rivista Accademia dei Rozzi XXIX/1 (2022), pp. 50–51
• Death of Giacomo Tamanti, 1 October 1819, Morti reg. 15, row 185 (original on Antenati)
• Marriage of Anna Tamanti, 5 February 1809, reg. 94, act 7 (original on Antenati)
• Marriage of Francesca Tamanti and Mario Giuliani, 24 February 1811, reg. 96, act 10 (original on Antenati)
• Marriage of Luigi Benigni and Barbara Tamanti, 25 November 1820, act 21 (original on Antenati)
• Marriage of Dr Antonio Tamanti and Fidalma Muzzarelli, April 1847, S. Lorenzo in S. Pietro, no. 22 (original on Antenati)
• Marriage of Giacomo Tamanti and Clementina Bagni, 1 August 1848 (original on Antenati)
• Marriage of Clemente Santi and Maria Tamanti, 12 February 1819, act 8 (original on Antenati)
• Birth of Paolina Santi, 13 December 1819, reg. 18, act 86 (original on Antenati)
• Marriage of Jacopo Biondi and Caterina Santi, 22 January 1844 (original on Antenati)
• Birth of Fidalma Tamanti, 1878, act 292
• Birth of Giovanni Tamanti, 1881, act 91
• Marco Severini, “Mattei Gentili, Paolo”, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 72 (Treccani, 2008)
• Owner’s Ancestry.com family-tree export (GEDCOM), 20 August 2026, and family testimony of Lorenzo Feliziani