vari - Annuario della Nobiltà italiana 4 grossi volumi in cofanetto di tela, XXXI edizione, 8400 pagine - 2010

Italian Nobility Yearbook 2010, XXXI edition (December 2010) - new series

It consists of 4 volumes in a rigid slipcase, bound in red cloth with gilt ornaments and dry-engraved gold engravings, in 4to format (cm 29 x 21); 8,600 pages in total, of which 200 are plates; over 30,000 coats of arms in black and white, portraits and views of castles and palaces; weight 24 kg.

To better preserve the work, the volumes are enclosed in a red cloth slipcase with gold lettering.

The structure of the Yearbook is organized into 5 main parts, namely:

Part I: families already Sovereign in the old Italian States and the Royal House of Italy;

Part II: noble families listed in the official registers of the Kingdom of Italy;

Part III: noble families subdivided into: a) pontifical titled after 1870; b) families ennobled by the Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta or admitted into the same chivalric order; c) families ennobled by King of Italy Umberto II after 1947; d) families admitted into chivalric orders with proofs of nobility for reception after the fall of the Kingdom of Italy, or those ennobling;

Part IV: families bearing the title of "generous nobility", especially from pre-unitarian states, which, however, were not recognized by the Kingdom of Italy and are therefore not included in the preceding parts;

Part V: Italian "notable" families, i.e., houses possessing a coat of arms and living a noble life, but formally not recognized as nobility; Index.

The XXXI edition of the Italian Nobility Yearbook is the monumental edition of the periodical founded in 1878 that collects historical and genealogical information on 48,000 Italian noble houses, honored with a foreword by H.R.H. Prince Amedeo of Savoy.

This is the commemorative edition for the 150th anniversary of Italian unification.

It consists of 4 volumes in a rigid slipcase, bound in red cloth with gilt ornaments and dry-engraved gold engravings, in 4to format (cm 29 x 21); 8,400 pages in total, of which 200 are plates; over 30,000 coats of arms in black and white, portraits and views of castles and palaces.

Here you can find the index of the families contained in this edition and in the following ones: https://www.annuariodellanobilta.com/indice-delle-famiglie-pubblicate-dalla-xxxi-monumentale-in-4-volumi-alla-xxxii-edizione-dellannuario-della-nobilta/