Partecipanti al Congresso Ginnastico di Venezia del 1869 (Archivio privato). Immagine tratta dal libro "Costantino Reyer e Pietro Gallo" di Crovato e Rizzardini, Marsilio (per gentile concessione degli autori).

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Participants at the 1869 Venice Gymnastic Congress (Private archive). Image taken from the book 'Costantino Reyer e Pietro Gallo' by Crovato and Rizzardini, Marsilio (courtesy of the authors).

Costantino was born on 1 February 1838 in Trieste. His father Alfred Philip is an officer in the Hapsburg army, his mother, Leopoldina Castagna, has noble Roman ancestry; one of her ancestors is Giovan Battista Castagna, who became Pope Urban VII at the end of the 16th century. Costantino has a brother, Emilio, a lawyer in Trieste, and a sister, Leopoldina, later married Mensi, in Venice. He studied at the Liceo Classico in Trieste; from 1856 to 1861 he was employed in the family firm the Reyer&Slick (maritime services), founded by Franz Thaddeus Reyer and run by Costantino's uncles, Franc

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