(Type of publication: newspaper article)
Luigi Caprotti - commemorato da Edoardo Glaser
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AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00206
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Authors:
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Glaser, Eduard GND
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Book title:
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La Riforma. Giornale di Roma, quotidiano, politico, letterario, artistico, finanziario.
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Volume:
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XXIII, (14.02.1889)
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Locality:
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Roma
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In 1883, the Italian merchant Luigi Caprotti (1858-1889) settled in Ṣanʿāʾ where he opened a branch of the Italian trading house 'Mazzucchelli & Perera' which had its main office in the port of Hodeida.
Together with his younger brother Giuseppe (1862–1919) who joined him in 1885, Luigi Caprotti was a host to many European travellers in Yemen, incl. Eduard Glaser or the French botanist Albert Deflers (1841–1921).
When Luigi Caprotti died of an intestinal infection on January 10th, 1889, Eduard Glaser published an obituary in the renowned newspaper 'La Riforma':
'(...) In announcing the death of Luigi Caprotti, I am fulfilling one of the most painful of duties.
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When one announces the death of a friend, one cannot help but cry.
He was a good man, a role model, one of those men who honour their country and make their friends proud.
I met Luigi Caprotti in 1885, after my second trip to Arabia. ...'
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