{"record":{"aliases":["Alessandro Dalla Valle di Pomaro","Alessandro Lelio Maria Dalla Valle","A. Dalla-Valle"],"appointmentIds":["italy-046950ef6e0ae0"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":[],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/alessandro-dalla-valle-di-mirabello-2fd9f9c218/","countrySlug":"italy","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/alessandro-dalla-valle-di-mirabello-2fd9f9c218/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["Alessandro Dalla Valle di Mirabello, also known as Dalla Valle di Pomaro, was born in Casale Monferrato in 1849. He entered the foreign ministry in 1873 and served in several European capitals as well as Washington. His family interests included the Cozio collection of stringed instruments and Stradivari workshop materials.","In May 1883, acting as Italy’s representative in Washington, Dalla Valle protested the increase in the American tariff on imported art from 10 to 30 percent. He argued that discrimination between Italian and American artists conflicted with the spirit of the 1871 commercial treaty and asked the State Department to support congressional relief. Acting Secretary John Davis promised to bring the matter before Congress. Fava subsequently pursued the same representations.","After inheriting his father’s estate, Dalla Valle offered the Cozio collection to Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown, a major donor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through an intermediary in 1896. The offer listed instruments as well as workshop relics. He left diplomacy in 1898 and died in Turin in 1905."],"id":"italy:alessandro dalla valle di mirabello","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-2fd9f9c2181318639db4.html","name":"Alessandro dalla Valle di Mirabello","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["dallavalle-collection"],["dallavalle-tariff"],["dallavalle-collection"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-2fd9f9c2181318639db4.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[{"certainty":"documented","name":"Saverio Fava","note":"Fava followed up Dalla Valle’s art-tariff representations in December 1883.","profileUrl":"diplomat-075f914f03d7be5a4ddd.html","sourceIds":["dallavalle-tariff"],"targetId":"italy:saverio fava","type":"worked_with"}],"relationships":[{"certainty":"documented","note":"Fava followed up Dalla Valle’s art-tariff representations in December 1883.","sourceIds":["dallavalle-tariff"],"targetId":"italy:saverio fava","type":"worked_with"}],"researchStatus":"reviewed","reviewedOn":"2026-10-28","revision":"4145bfa68a60e770","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"dallavalle-collection","locator":"Section on Alessandro Lelio Maria Dalla Valle, notes 47–53","publisher":"Archivio della Liuteria Cremonese","title":"Contributo alle biografie della famiglia del Conte Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue e alla storia della sua Collezione liutaria","type":"scholarship","url":"https://www.archiviodellaliuteriacremonese.it/monografie/contributo_alle_biografie_della_famiglia_conte_1.aspx"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"dallavalle-tariff","locator":"pp. 2–3, notes 1–2; p. 5, note 4; downloaded PDF text inspected","publisher":"U.S. House of Representatives, 48th Congress, first session, Executive Document 111 (1884)","title":"Tariff on Works of Foreign Artists","type":"primary-record","url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/SERIALSET-02206_00_00-009-0111-0000/pdf/SERIALSET-02206_00_00-009-0111-0000.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 26 October 2026","id":"mission-aac9724cf9a1cd7fdcd9","locator":"Printed pp. 53–55 list chiefs and acting heads. Appointment boundaries are not uniform arrival or credential dates.","publisher":"","title":"Italian MFA historical archive: Washington mission, 1848–1901","type":"Mission record","url":"https://www.esteri.it/mae/Servizi/ArchivioStorico/11Washington.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 26 October 2026","id":"mission-67e5252c04637df36483","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"Historical representation: Kingdom of Italy","type":"Mission record","url":"https://www.quirinale.it/it/pagine/italian-tricolour-flag"}],"topics":["art tariffs","commercial diplomacy","Cozio collection"]},"schemaVersion":1}