Metadata: Castiglioni. Books' fonds
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:
- 242
- Title:
- Castiglioni. Books' fonds
- Title (official language):
- Castiglioni. Fondo librario
- Date(s):
- 1524-1939
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- French
- Extent:
- 2,041 books
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains books donated to the State Archive of Mantua by the Castiglioni family, whose most famous member had been Baldassarre Castiglione, Renaissance diplomat and author of the “Book of the Courtier”. Among the books kept in this fonds there is a very rare copy of “Della influenza del ghetto nello Stato”, or “About the Influence of the Ghetto into the State”, an antisemitic pamphlet written in Mantua by the Count Giovambattista D’Arco and printed in Venice in 1782.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Castiglione (or Castiglioni) family is an old noble family from Lombardy which counts many illustrious personalities among its members, including popes, cardinals, army captains and senators. The Mantuan branch descends from Cristoforo Castiglioni (1345-1425) jurisconsult, nicknamed "the Monarch of Laws". He had six children with Antonia da Baggio, including Baldassare. Baldassare went on to become a mercenary captain and progenitor of the Mantua branch of the Castiglione family: his son Cristoforo had a son, Baldassare (1478-1529), author of the famous book "Il Cortigiano" (The Book of the Courtier).
The Fondo Librario Castiglioni was deposited at the State Archive of Mantua in 2011. It was delivered in 43 boxes containing 2,041 volumes published between the 16th and the 20th century. This book collection has completed the Castiglioni's paper collection already kept by the State Archive. See http://194.242.241.150/web/san/dettaglio-complesso-documentario?step=dettaglio&codiSanCompl=san.cat.complArch.29143&idSogc=&id=29143
For more details about the Castiglioni family in Mantua see http://dati.san.beniculturali.it/SAN/produttore_SIAS_san.cat.sogP.26375
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:
- Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Rare books
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Samuela Marconcini; Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea; 2018
