Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240

part in history, but such names as Mechel and Mocenigo di Rumo reflect

the interchange of sovereignty. It was in the little village of Mechel that Francesco Borghesi was born in 1723.[8] Local records are meager and inadequate, and many of the details of Borghesi's life must be assumed. Inasmuch as the village was in a rural, agricultural district, Borghesi may have come from a...