Metadata: Viadana District Commissary's Office
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:
- 146
- Title:
- Viadana District Commissary's Office
- Title (official language):
- Commissariato distrettuale di Viadana
- Date(s):
- 1607-1889
- Language:
- Italian
- Extent:
- 238 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds contains documents of the Commissariato distrettuale (District Commissary’s Office) located in Viadana. During the Restoration Period, in 1818, the province of Mantua was divided into 17 District Commissary Offices, later reduced to 11 (in 1854). They supervised financial, religious and cultural affairs, but mainly dealt with surveillance and checking tasks, for which they sent detailed reports to the Delegazione provincial (Provincial Delegation) in Mantua.
In folder no. 225, file no. 1504, there is an exchange of letters and the statutes of the Opera Pia Cantoni Israele, a charitable institution established in 1885 in Pomponesco by Israele Cantoni’s siblings (Alberto, the famous writer, Engineer Luigi and Giulietta) for the care of poor, chronically sick people.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The Commissariato distrettuale (District Commissary’s Office) was a State administrative peripheral corporate body of the Restoration Period. Beginning in 1818, the province of Mantua was divided into 17 different District Commissary Offices (Asola, Bozzolo, Canneto, Castel Goffredo, Castiglione delle Stiviere, Gonzaga, Mantova, Marcaria, Ostiglia, Revere, Roverbella, Sabbioneta, Sermide, Suzzara, Viadana, Volta). In 1854 these were reduced to 11. They supervised financial, religious and cultural affairs, but they mainly dealt with surveillance and checking tasks, sending detailed reports to the Delegazione provinciale (Provincial Delegation) in Mantua.
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: persons/families:
- Cantoni, Alberto, 1841-1904
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- 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