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Annibal Dieudonné (Annibale Deodato) Scotti
(Plaisance(1), 1676 - La
Granja(2), 1752)
Son of Fabio and Alessandra Vittoria Scotti and
descendant of the oldest branch of the Scotti de Castelbosco(4) and Mamago,
said to be descendants of Ruffine Scotti, himself a son of David.
Marquis de Castelbosco of Sobrano, from Sotano, Count
of San Giorgio of Miceno, Lord of Rezano, Magnano, Grand d'Spain
Grand Majordoma of the Queen of Spain ( Isabella Farnesio)
Governor of the Infant Don
Louis
Parma Ambassador to Spain
Knight of the Order of
the Holy Spirit (1745, named but not received)
The Marquis of
Scotti was a butler of Duke Francisco Farnesio when the King of Spain,
Felipe V, asked for his daughter Isabel in July 1714. He participated in
the preparations for the wedding in Parma and accompanied the new queen
in the Long trip to Spain. He then went to Paris, the court of Louis XIV
on behalf of the Duke Francis. By declining the power of Alberoni for
the intervention of him in the Wars of Italy, the Duke required Scotti's
services to move to Madrid in order to convince the cardinal that he
should leave Spain. The Marquis arrived at the court in October 1719 and
two months later Alberoni left Spain forever. Since then Scotti replaced
the cardinal in the privanza of the queen and was the trusted man who
administered the secret pocket of the sovereign, hired the artists for
the royal works and paid the numerous works of art that she was acquired
along the Life of her.
His first occupation in Madrid, appointed
by Alberoni, was as director of the theater of Peral Caños and Judge of
the Comics. When in 1720 Felipe V decided to give up the crown in favor
of his son Luis I and retire to the palace that was building on La
Granja, the Marquis of Scotti was since then the essential Counselor of
the Queen in artistic matters, the one in charge of buying pictures In
Flanders and to come from Italy architects, painters and all kinds of
operators for the new royal residence. The Roman artist Andrés
Procaccini arrived in Madrid contracted in principle as royal
portraitist, but then he dealt with the extension of the new palace and
the acquisition of works of art for the Queen, always at the orders of
the Marquis of Scotti. When the kings moved to Seville in 1729 Scotti
followed them in all their displacements. Two years later, the covenants
were reached with Austria who named the infante Carlos heir of the
ducats of Parma and Plasencia. To accompany her son of only fifteen
years, the queen chose her trusting man, the Marquis of Scotti, whom she
named a higher stabsite(?) of the infant.
He informed the kings of
the vicinity of the trip from Seville to Los Ducados. Dorotea Sofia from
Neoburg received in Parma to her older grandson with great celebrations
and shortly after the Marqués went to Piacenza to visit her the woman of
her Teodora Chiapponi (his wife) and her children, whom he had not seen for many
years. Scotti returned to Spain and the kings returned to San Ildefonso,
where in August 1735 they decided to put a fourth to his little son El
Infante Luis, already celebrated eight years old.
The faithful
Marquis of Scotti was again required by the kings for a trusted
position; He was named Ayo and Governor of the Luis Infante. Little
later, he was named Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo. By dying Felipe V in
July 1746, there was only Scotti as a witness to the signature of the
testament. With more than seventy years he continued next to the queen
of her accompanying her in the difficult circumstances of her widowhood
and the death of her followed by her daughter Maria Teresa, Delfina de
France. The following year he accompanied Isabel de Farnesio to her
exile on La Granja, where she lived by the Luis Infante. There he
continued to take care of the works of the palace that had been left
without concluding. Despite the shelters of him accompanied the infant
to the court, where he collected all the useful information for the
queen. Before the widow's desconsuelo and the infant he died in the Real
Sitio de La Granja in 1752.
A better translation from the
source document held by La Real Academia de la Historia would
be very welcome.
Family
Annibal Scotti
was the son of Fabio and Alessandra Vittoria
Scotti and
descendant of the oldest branch of the Scotti de Castelbosco(4) and Mamago
He married Teodora Chiapponi, daughter of Daniele, conte
Chiapponi, by whom he had a son, Fabio Scotti. From the above, it seems
that he was not an only child.
Heraldry
The armorial above is Knight of the Illustrious Order of St. Januarius
on the 6th of July, 1738.
The order was founded to celebrate the marriage of Charles VII & V (1716-1788) King of Naples & King of Sicily 1734-1759 (Charles III king of Spain 1759-1788) Grand master of the Distinguished and royal Order of San Gennaro to Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony-Poland (1724-1760) on the 3rd of July 1738.
Notes:
1. Probably Piacenza, Italy
2. Spain
3. He is described as an Italian emigrant.
4.
The village of Castelbosco is in the municipality of Gragnano Trebbiense,
in the province of Piacenza
See also:
• Italy portal
• Palazzo Scotti in Castelbosco
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