Metadata: Historical Library of the Mantua Hospital “Carlo Poma”
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:
- 198
- Title:
- Historical Library of the Mantua Hospital “Carlo Poma”
- Title (official language):
- Biblioteca storica dell'Ospedale Carlo Poma di Mantova
- Date(s):
- 1532-1984
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 1,954 books
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The historical library of the Mantua hospital “Carlo Poma” comprises scientific books (mainly about medicine and pharmacy), of which 28 were printed in the 16th century, 42 in the 17th century and 369 in the 18th century. The rest were printed in the 19th and 20th centuries, including thesis dissertations written by students of the University of Medicine in Pavia, among whom there were Jewish students, such as for example Isaia Finzi from Bozzolo (1835). There are also some very interesting books for Jewish history, such as the opera omnia (in two volumes) of Zacutus Lusitanus (a Portuguese Marrano), printed in Lyon in the first half of the 17th century: “De medicorum principum historia opus absolutissimum, Lugduni 1644” and “Praxis historiarum, Lugduni 1643”; a work written by a Jewish psychiatrist, Marco Levi Bianchini, in 1914 (“Elementi di assistenza e tecnica manicomiale ad uso degli infermieri”) and a treatise (“Fisiopatologia della vecchiaia”, vol. I) written in 1933 by a Jewish scientist, Giuseppe Levi, together with Alberto Pepere and Gaetano Viale.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Azienda ospedaliera 'Carlo Poma' is the current name of Ospedale Carlo Poma di Mantova or Ospedale di Mantova. The Ospedale di Mantova was created in the 15th century by the will of Ludovico Gonzaga through the unification of several pre-existing hospitals and hospices in the city and neighbouring villages, most of them run by religious institutes. This unification was approved by Pope Nicholas V in a Papal Bull dated 4 March 1449.
Ospedale Grande was the name given to the palace built in 1450 by the impulse of Ludovico Gonzaga, where both the real estate properties donated by benefactors were administered and welfare activities for disadvantaged citizens carried out. The Ospedale Grande, both as building and as charity institution, existed until 1630. From the 17th century the Ospedale di Mantova moved to new premises in a building designed by the architect Paolo Pozzo.
The whole corpus of documentation of the Ospedale di Mantova - both the various branches of the Archives and the historical Library - has been deposited at the State Archive of Mantua in various phases, the last between 2002 and 2005.
For further details see: http://san.beniculturali.it/web/san/dettaglio-complesso-documentario?step=dettaglio&codiSanCompl=san.cat.complArch.117416&idSogc=&id=117416
For the Istituti ospedalieri di Mantova see http://san.beniculturali.it/web/san/dettaglio-complesso-documentario?step=dettaglio&codiSanCompl=san.cat.complArch.31144&idSogc=31144&id=31144
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:
- Levi Bianchini, Marco, 1875-1961
- Levi, Giuseppe, 1872-1965
- Pepere, Alberto
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Samuela Marconcini; Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea; 2018