CIARPE, FRASTAGLI AND SCAMPOLI 1877-78

Log of Capt. Enrico Alberto D’Albertis’ first trip around the world

Have you ever participated in a regatta in Sarawak, the land of Sandokan?

Do you know what the vermouth tastes at the Hotel de l'Europe in Singapore?

How do you travel first class from Hong Kong to San Francisco on the Tokyo steamboat?

Have you ever been invited to lunch by the mayor of Melbourne?

Where would you go with a free first-class pass for the entire Australian rail network?

Captain Enrico Alberto D'Albertis did all these things and a thousand others between 1877 and 1878, and kept record of them in a travel album he called “Ciarpe, frastagli e scampoli” and which collects mementoes of his first trip round the world, starting in Livorno on 24 October 1877 and ending in Plymouth a year later, before returning to his beloved Genoa.

A travel diary made of newspaper clippings, hotel and ship menus, business cards in Japanese, entrance cards to exclusive clubs, letters from governors and consuls, reservations for theatres, telegrams and jokes: an album that allows us to travel with him through India, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania, to China, Japan, New York, Galapagos, Jamaica and Barbados ...

A journey that takes us on a trip to another century and that, without photographs, allows us to imagine, live and dream being with him at the Tasmanian Club in Hobarth, of ordering a jacket from the Tailoring, Cleaning and Dyeing company of Broadway (New York) or of tasting the thousand delicacies of a cuisine from other worlds and times ...

For anyone visiting his home (children, adults, individuals or groups) it is possible to “set sail” with the Captain thanks to a virtual experience produced with the support of SLAM, which after the success of our first Crowdfunding project allowed us to restore and create a paper copy.

The restoration was made possible thanks to the support of the Cooperativa Solidarietà e Lavoro who participated in our first Crowdfunding project on the LA RETE DEL DONO platform

and to the generosity of: ITALIAN YACHT CLUB - Genoa and Istituto Studi Storici Alta Valtellina.

And of:

Alessandro Ciccolo

Filippo   Astori

Alessandra Calzetta

Leonardo Parigi

Christian Rovida

Marco Bottino

Olga Luce

Antonio Galofaro

Anna Rita Punzo

Linda Kaiser

Giovanni Villani

Davide Flavio Munno

Paola Lanata

Paola Gatto

Gianfranco Mazzocchi

Matteo Scarzello

Maria Gallo

Federico Della Pietra

Ludovico Sassarini

Laura Cavalletti

Pierbruno Parodi

Irene Calvi

Mario Kaiser

Feliciano Costa

Silvia Venturini

Roberto Romano

Roberto Gangemi

Rossana Piccioli

Alberto Agostino

Cinzia Rebuffo

Riccardo Pavan

Anna Giulia D’Albertis

Luigi Berio

Lara Cavallero

Gian Luca Spagnuolo

Anna Lazzarotto

Alessandro Repetto

Marco Castiglia

Roberto Giacinti

Roberto Bordieri

Maria Eugenia Esparragoza

Emanuele Bassino

Alessandra Cuneo

Federica Zichichi

Chiara Vangelista

Piergiacomo Raimondi

Armando Poggio

Rosanna D'Angela

Alberto Brusacà

Carla Scarsi

Alessandro Zeggio

Valeria  Vitali

Elisabetta Silvestrin

Enrico Pierini

Ida Ileana Selva

Alessandro Ball

Ludovica Mazzetti D'Albertis

Simone Cavaliere

Gianluca Favretto

Simonetta Maione

Maria Calcagno

Natalia Cosulich

Elisabetta Raffo

Clelia Belgrado

Attilio Carmagnani

Fabio Contessi

Giovanni Cecconi

Francesco Crosa

Maria Pia D'Albertis

Enrico D'Albertis

Maria Camilla De Palma

Andrea  Sampietro

Restoration by Alice Ferroni

copy produced by Elisabetta Roncoroni

Video by Enrico Pierini, Photography by Roberto Bordieri

Our thanks go to the Hydrographic Institute of the Italian Navy for their precious collaboration