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He was born in Zoagli in 1803, when he was eight, Giuseppe Canevaro started to sail, when he was twelve sails for Cuba on the sail ship Calipso.
He became captain at twenty years old and started with a own commercial activity in Panama, than in Perų.
In Lima His twelve children were born, he is named Consul of the Sardinia kingdom, fonds the Banco Nacional del Perų, closing the big debit he had with the gouvernement, financing it with his society that had property of the (monopoly on the exploitation andexportation of natural fertilizer.
He offer politic to Garibaldi, who had fight against the French consul,
after that he sent him to Canton, as chief of a guano boat.
He transported tousands of chinese because, in the cold weather of the guano's Islands,
did not resists africans and half-breed from the coast.
He sent to Cavour,
with who institutes a strong competition, 350.000 pounds to finance hospitals during the risorgimental wars,
managing its in first person.
In 1870 he buyed the land and the castle from the Malfanti Spinola, in the west of Zoagli,
from were he departed in 1812 "with the shirt he was wearing and the mother's benedition" as the old people still tells.
He died when he was eighty in La Spezia in the big house on the sea,
built by his son admiral, not still duke as was considered for at Vittorio Emanuele II that
had named him Commendatore awarded for services to one's country) of S.Maurizio and S.Lazzaro and count,
three years later, his son will receive from Umberto I the title of duke of Castelvari, his land in Mercatale,
Val di Pesa and in 1884, Duke of Zoagli.
Four of his children were very important person in Perų,
the eldest Josč Francisco become plenipotentiary minister for Europe, Cesar Josč Commander in Chief and Vice-President,
Ottavio Carlos and Bernardo Cincinnato, ambassadors. Felice Napoleone and Varlos Pompeo come back in Italy to study,
The first , after the Sicily conquest distinguished himself under Garibaldi during the attack to Gaeta, than under Persano, in the naval battle of of Lissa;
he give his active contribute in creating Regia Marina, he was Navy minister for twelve years and also Foreign minister. When he was in command of the allied fleet who block Creta in 1896, he was determinant in giving Creta to Greece and not to the Big Five Countryes, who were sharing the Ottoman booty In Hania, the most important street, has his name, and his memory is still alive in the people; in Katzantzkis, in Zorba the Greek the "madame" repeat a lot of time that the italian admiral was his favourite and he successfully supplied him: "my Canevaro! Dear little my Canevaro! I pray you don't do bum bum, nothing bum bum!..." Hania will be spared. Carlos Pompeo will be charge of Navy ministry of Navy, Agriculture and Commerce and to create a italian race of thoroughbred of race and for this reason he frequented the auction of Newmarket, Paris and Istambul, and created the national breeding in Barbaricina, between S.Rossore and Pisa.
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