Remembering Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà founder of Brazaville capital of Congo
Pietro was born in the capital of Italy, Rome, in 1852 to Count Ascanio Savorgnan di Brazzà, an exponent of one of the oldest noble families of Friuli and a Venetian patrician with excellent contacts all over the world including Napoleon's France, and his wife Giacinta Simonetti, who belonged to one of ...