Source note

Only child of Luigi Porta and of Ginevra di Piombo, born in Paris in 1820 and named Bartholomeo after the grandfather who had cursed the marriage; he died in the following year, in the misery which carried off the whole family. From Anne-Marie Meininger's genealogy of the Comedie humaine (1987), 'Autres personnages' panel, box for The Vendetta.