Metadata: Gonzaga Archive, Legislation and Govern Structure, Bills' books
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, F.II.12
- Title:
- Gonzaga Archive, Legislation and Govern Structure, Bills' books
- Title (official language):
- Archivio Gonzaga. Legislazione e sistemazione del governo, Libri delle patenti
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gonzaga family
- Date(s):
- 1414-1770
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- German
- Extent:
- 15 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- “Libri delle patenti”, or “Books of Bills” contains mainly positions and offices appointments for officials and courtiers, of the Gonzaga rulers and of the House of Habsburg (after 1707, when Mantua became part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Some of the volumes have an internal index (for example, volume no. 4 is the index of volume no. 3). This fonds is relevant to Jewish history insofar as it concerns the designation of a judge as legal supervisor of Jewish criminal laws, as it is in volume no. 6 (1540-1568).
- 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:
- Gonzaga
- Subject terms:
- Legal 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