Metadata: Gonzaga Archive, Private Affairs of the Mantua Princes and Rulers
Collection
- Country:
- Italy
- Holding institution:
- Mantua State Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- Postal address:
- via Roberto Ardigò 11, 46100 Mantova
- Phone number:
- +39 376324441
- Web address:
- http://www.asmantova.beniculturali.it
- Email:
- as-mn@beniculturali.it
- Reference number:
- Inventario Luzio e Torelli, D
- Title:
- Gonzaga Archive, Private Affairs of the Mantua Princes and Rulers
- Title (official language):
- Archivio Gonzaga. Affari di Famiglia de' Principi e Dominanti di Mantova
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gonzaga family
- Date(s):
- 1112-1781
- Date note:
- Jewish-related material dates from 1675-1685
- Language:
- Italian
- Extent:
- 226 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents regarding private affairs of the members of the Gonzaga family, rulers of the city of Mantua. Folder no. 269 includes a sub-folder entitled “Libro portante le Entrate della Serenissima Signora Duchessa di Mantova, ricavate principalmente dal Salaro, dall'Università degli Ebrei, dalle Corti Porto, Cavriana, Ronchi, dalla Possessione di Santa Maddalena, dalla Pesca di Zerdi con insieme le Spese fatte per diversi motivi”, which contains incomes and expenditures of the Archduchess regarding some Jews, such as Vita di Ferrara and Norsi e Sulami.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Gonzaga Family ruled Mantua and the province of Mantua from 1328 to 1708. The "Archivio Gonzaga" is the old, so called "secret" Archive of the Marchesato (Marquisate, 1433-1587), later Ducato ( Duchy, 1531-1708) of the Gonzaga Family in Mantua. It includes papers dated before the coming to power of the family in 1328 and later than the date of their fall in 1708. Important sections of the archive were destroyed during two fires in 1413 and 1448.
In 1785 the entire archive of the Gonzagas was concentrated in the lower rooms of the castle of San Giorgio, where it took the name of "Archivio governativo" (Archive of Government). In 1865 the Archivio governativo was delivered to the Municipality of Mantua and in 1883 it was moved to the Palazzo degli Studi - now State Archive of Mantua - where it is currently located.
The "Archivio Gonzaga" is one of the seven archives included in the macro-area named "Antichi Regimi - Periodo Gonzaga" (Ancient regimes - Gonzaga Period) into which the State Archive of Mantua is organised. It also includes Archivio del Monferrato (1155-1605); Magistrato ducale (1573-1736), Gridario del magistrato ducale (1578-1787); Archivio degli instrumenti (1345-1770); Magistrature di sanità (1555-1817).
A detailed description of this archive was supplied by Pietro Torelli in 1920. This inventory is still the only available complete finding aid. The "Guida generale degli Archivi di Stato", published in Rome in 1966-1969 - now also available online (http://www.guidageneralearchivistato.beniculturali.it/) - provides information about the Gonzaga Archive, the inventory edited by Pietro Torelli and bibliographic information. For historical information about the holding institution, the State Archive of Mantua, see http://guidagenerale.maas.ccr.it/document.aspx?uri=/istituticonservatori/IC0460022101
- Access points: locations:
- Mantua
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Finding aids:
- Guida Generale degli Archivi di Stato. Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Samuela Marconcini; Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea; 2017