Metadata: Archive of the Noble Family Arrigoni
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:
- 128
- Title:
- Archive of the Noble Family Arrigoni
- Title (official language):
- Archivio gentilizio Arrigoni
- Date(s):
- 1238-1827
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 156 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains documents of the Arrigoni family. It is particularly important for the history of the Jews in Mantua because the Arrigoni family had a conspicuous real estate patrimony, including many buildings in the “contrada del cammello e del grifone”, an area of the city of Mantua where the Jewish ghetto was located, since 1610. Folder no. 12, titled “Case del ghetto” (Ghetto houses), contains mainly tenancies or sale contracts made in this quarter, from 1512 to 1800. The four oldest contracts are on parchment and are thus kept in folder no. 2 because of their particular format. From 1738 the contracts are named “Jus gazagà” (a kind of a special permanent right of tenancy made for Jews). Similar documents may be found also in folders no. 11, 16, 18, 23, 29 and 48; the latter contains a small book with “receipts of the Jewish ghetto” (21 February 1681), another booklet with the names of the debtors for the tenancies of the ghetto houses (1683) and a list of renters of the ghetto, with the amount paid each year (1693-1713). In folder no. 141, there is a technical evaluation with a planimetry of a house inside the Jewish ghetto, owned by marquis Tommaso Arrigoni (year 1769, file no. 4). Folder no. 147 contains acts of a credit with the Jewish brothers Norsa (year 1795, file no. 6). In folder no. 151 there are some letters addressed to Gianfrancesco Arrigoni, including by his wife, Cecilia Cantoni (16 July 1802, file no. 2).
- Archival history:
-
The Archivio gentilizio Arrigoni was transferred to the State Archive of Mantua in 1978 according to the will of the owner, Marchesa Aliana Cavriani. This Archive came to the Cavriani family as dowry following the marriage in 1827 between the Marchesa Teresa Arrigoni and the nobleman Annibale Cavriani. In 1988 when the Cavriani archive (which contains also some Arrigoni family papers) was deposited at the State Archive of Mantua, it was integrated with the Arrigoni Archive.
See http://san.beniculturali.it/web/san/dettaglio-complesso-documentario?step=dettaglio&codiSanCompl=san.cat.complArch.29118&idSogc=&id=29118
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Arrigoni family was a noble family originally from Milan. By the end of 15th century, Pietro Arrigoni left Milan for Mantua where he found the protection of the Gonzagas. Pietro Arrigoni started the Mantuan branch of the Arrigoni family. The last descendant of the Arrigoni family was Teresa Arrigoni married to Annibale Cavriani.
Information about the Arrigoni family is available at http://san.beniculturali.it/web/san/dettaglio-soggetto-produttore?id=26351
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:
- Mantua
- Access points: persons/families:
- Arrigoni family
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Financial records
- Ghettos (non-Holocaust era)
- Real estate
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Samuela Marconcini; Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea; 2018
