Luigi Casati: from Alumnus of the Regia Scuola di Commercio

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dc.contributor.author	Neff Robert
dc.title	Luigi Casati: from Alumnus of the Regia Scuola di Commercio to Last Italian Consul to the Great Empire of Korea
dc.type	Chapter
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dc.description.abstract	After studying Japanese language at Ca’ Foscari in the early 1870s, Luigi Casati spent most of his diplomatic career in Japan. Later, he moved to the Great Empire of Korea that, under the Eulsa Treaty of 1905, had become a protectorate of Japan. Casati was Italian consul in Seoul for about three years, and here he spent his final days with two of his daughters. Diplomatic records indicate that at the time Italy was trying to expand its economic presence on the peninsula through the acquisition of a gold mining concession and the increase of trade but, unlike his predecessors (one authored several books and articles and another was a favourite of the small expat community), little has been published about the Casati family’s daily interactions. Through the use of contemporary English-language and Korean newspapers and family history, this paper reveals the final years and resting place of Casati, who died in December 1909. After little more than 8 months later, Japan annexed the peninsula making Luigi Casati the last Italian Consul to the Great Empire of Korea.
dc.relation.ispartof	I libri di Ca’ Foscari
dc.relation.ispartof	1868-2018: storie di un ateneo
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2018-10-20
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-266-6/luigi-casati-from-alumnus-of-the-regia-scuola-di-c/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-265-9/007
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8917
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9506
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-266-6
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-265-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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dc.subject	Early Italian-Korean diplomatic relations
dc.subject	Early Italian-Korean diplomatic relations
dc.subject	Luigi Casati
dc.subject	Luigi Casati
dc.subject	The Great Empire of Korea
dc.subject	The Great Empire of Korea
dc.subject	Yanghwajin Foreigners’ Cemetery
dc.subject	Yanghwajin Foreigners’ Cemetery

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Luigi Casati: from Alumnus of the Regia Scuola di Commercio to Last Italian Consul to the Great Empire of Korea

Robert Neff Independent researcher, author and columnist for <i>Korea Times</i>, Seoul, Korea

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After studying Japanese language at Ca’ Foscari in the early 1870s, Luigi Casati spent most of his diplomatic career in Japan. Later, he moved to the Great Empire of Korea that, under the Eulsa Treaty of 1905, had become a protectorate of Japan. Casati was Italian consul in Seoul for about three years, and here he spent his final days with two of his daughters. Diplomatic records indicate that at the time Italy was trying to expand its economic presence on the peninsula through the acquisition of a gold mining concession and the increase of trade but, unlike his predecessors (one authored several books and articles and another was a favourite of the small expat community), little has been published about the Casati family’s daily interactions. Through the use of contemporary English-language and Korean newspapers and family history, this paper reveals the final years and resting place of Casati, who died in December 1909. After little more than 8 months later, Japan annexed the peninsula making Luigi Casati the last Italian Consul to the Great Empire of Korea.

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Keywords: Luigi Casati • The Great Empire of Korea • Yanghwajin Foreigners’ Cemetery • Early Italian-Korean diplomatic relations

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