Metadata: Government Acts – Worship
Collection
- Country:
- Italy
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Milan
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivio di Stato di Milano
- Postal address:
- via Senato 10, 20121 Milano
- Phone number:
- +39 027742161
- Web address:
- http://www.archiviodistatomilano.beniculturali.it/
- Email:
- as-mi@beniculturali.it
- Reference number:
- Boxes 2159, 2160, 2161
- Title:
- Government Acts – Worship
- Title (official language):
- Atti di Governo - Culto
- Creator/accumulator:
- Governing Council, Political Chamber Magistrate, General Administration of Lombardy, Executive Director, Governor, Grand Chancellor, Plenipotentiary Minister, Royal Treasurer, Milanese Senate.
- Date(s):
- 1300-1899
- Date note:
- Material in this fonds dates from the 14th to the 19th century. Jewish-related material dates from 1551-1687
- Language:
- Italian
- Extent:
- 2,302 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds comprises documents concerning the Catholic religion, its ministers and other religious congregations. This includes correspondence and writings concerning the relations between the State of Milan and the Church (in particular the Milanese Church); jurisdiction of the lay court and the ecclesiastical court. In particular, concerning the community in Pavia, there are authorisations issued to Leone Levi and doctor Zaccaria not to wear the yellow sign (the Jewish badge); tensions between the Jewish lenders and the Council of the city, which led the latter, shortly after the middle of the century, to decree that pawn receipts be written only in Latin or Italian, to avoid fraud. The plague, spread during the apostolic visits of Borromeo and Peruzzi, contributed to the escalation of the hostility against the Jews (who were accused of spreading the contagion), leading, in 1576, to various restrictive measures that increased social separation, for example the prohibition for Christians to visit Jewish houses (1570). Due to the hostile atmosphere against the Jews that characterised Pavia, moreover, the authorities also imposed on them the maintenance of the Spanish troops who were quartered there; a proselytising activity was also started which led to some conversions, including that of a son of Leone Levita Morello, which had tragic consequences because of the intervention of the Inquisition, in 1579. Despite the presence of papers concerning the extension of the expulsion, in 1597 Pavia succeeded in fully achieving its intent and no Jews resided there since then.
- Archival history:
- This series is part of the "Government Acts" hyper-fonds which collects documents from the main magistracies and government offices of the State of Milan for the period covering the 15th to the 19th century. The files preserved in the boxes are not the result of the normal aggregation of documents from various offices but rather of a reorganisation "by subject" that was carried out from the end of the 18th until the second half of the 19th century.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The documents belonging to the "Government Acts" series can be traced back to various creators listed below. For more detailed information on the political-administrative history, the user is referred to the “Institutions” records at the website www.lombardiabeniculturali.it.
1. Extraordinary magistrate (1541-1749) (http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/istituzioni/schede/8000035/)
2. Government Council (1786-1791) (http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/istituzioni/schede/8000064/)
3. General Administration of Lombardy (1796-1797) (http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/istituzioni/schede/8000191/)
4. Executive Directory (1797-1799) (http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/istituzioni/schede/8000203/)
5. Grand Chancellor (1535-1753) (http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/istituzioni/schede/8000028/)
6. General Police Ministry (1797-1799) (http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/archivi/soggetti-produttori/ente/MIDB000AD4/)
7. Plenipotentiary Minister (1745-1796) (http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/istituzioni/schede/8000029/)
8. Cisalpine Republic (1797-1802) (http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/istituzioni/schede/8000362/)
- Access points: locations:
- Pavia
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into General Provisions and Particular Occurrences, including an alphabetical list of different titles.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
