Metadata: Gonzaga Archive, Church Issues, Charitable Institutions
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, P.XXII
- Title:
- Gonzaga Archive, Church Issues, Charitable Institutions
- Title (official language):
- Archivio Gonzaga. Materie ecclesiastiche, Luoghi pii
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gonzaga family
- Date(s):
- 1449-1777
- Date note:
- Jewish-related material dates from 1764-1772
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Extent:
- 4 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains documents created by ecclesiastical institutions in Mantua and used by the Chancellor of the Gonzaga government (until 1707) and by the House of Habsburg (after 1707, when Mantua became part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) for internal purposes. A section regarding several charitable institutions in Mantua includes folder no. 3661. One of the files in this folder concerns a Jewish girl, Vittoria Pavesi, said to be willing of converting to Christianity by her Catholic maid, but not baptised (1769). Another is about the conversion to Christianity of the Jewish girl Giuditta Portaleoni from Gazzuolo, Mantua, followed by the request made to the local Jewish community to cover the expenses for the transfer of the girl to the house of catechumens in Mantua; troubles that arose while she was in the house of the catechumens; documents related to her baptism (1770-1771). Another file concerns a neophyte, Marianna Rosalba Luzzara, formerly a Jew, asking to be housed in some charitable institution (1772). Finally, there is a folder of the Luogo pio della Misericordia, containing several files; one of these is about Flaminia Tiraboschi, formerly a Jew (she was a sister of Marianna Rosalba Luzzara), asking to be housed in the Luogo Pio della Misericordia (1764).
- Administrative/biographical history:
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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
- 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
