Metadata: Reports of Giovanni Francesco Pullicani, president of the Chamber Magistrate
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:
- 5
- Title:
- Reports of Giovanni Francesco Pullicani, president of the Chamber Magistrate
- Title (official language):
- Relazioni di Giovanni Francesco Pullicani, presidente del Magistrato Camerale di Mantova
- Date(s):
- 1707-1726
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Extent:
- 7 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains reports written by the president of the Chamber Magistrate in the first decades of the 18th century; some of which are related to the Jews in Mantua. Folder no. 2, file no. 19, includes a report about a certain Antonio Avanzi, who claimed that Jewish and Christian merchants exported grains, notwithstanding the poor harvest of that year (23 October 1714); in the same folder, file no. 21, there is a reference to two Jews, Leon Vita Sullam and Sansone Modena, and their economic activity (26 January 1716). Folder no. 5, file no. 25, contains a report about the heirs of the Jew Salvatore Norsa and their claims about a credit they request from the Treasury (17 November 1716). In folder no. 6, file no. 9, there is a report about the loan of 84,000 liras made to the Treasury by the “Università dei mercanti ebrei e cristiani” (i.e. the corporate body of Jewish and Christian merchants) for the Royal Troops (1720).
- Archival history:
-
The Relazioni di Giovanni Francesco Pullicani, presidente del Magistrato Camerale di Mantova, is an aggregated fonds of the Archive Magistrato Camerale Antico. Magistrato Ducale.
For historical information about the holding institution, the State Archive of Mantua, see http://guidagenerale.maas.ccr.it/document.aspx?uri=/istituticonservatori/IC0460022101
- Administrative/biographical history:
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Giovanni Francesco Pullicani (1666-1734) was a Mantuan nobleman. He graduated in law in Padua in 1686. In 1687 he was admitted to the Collegio dei Giuristi and in 1701 he became prior. President of the Magistrato Camerale since 1705, he continued this assignment even after the fall of the Gonzaga Duchy, until 1718. Appointed president of the Mantuan Senate, he continued his career, with prestigious civic and military appointments, until his death.
See also http://dati.san.beniculturali.it/SAN/produttore_SIAS_san.cat.sogP.26370
- Access points: locations:
- Mantua
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Moneylending
- Trade and commerce
- 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; 2018
