Metadata: Castiglioni. Envelopes
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:
- 12 bis
- Title:
- Castiglioni. Envelopes
- Title (official language):
- Archivio Castiglioni. Buste
- Date(s):
- 1200-1999
- Date note:
- 13th-20th century
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Extent:
- 111 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains documents 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”. Folder no. 2, file no. 2 contains all the documents related to the dispute with the Jew Vita Bassano, as heir of Salomon Raffael Ariani, of the land named “Emigrata” and the surrounding fields (1800-1865). In folder no. 17, file no. 5, there is a booklet printed in 1821, sustaining the right of the Cantoni family from Bozzolo (Mantua) to use their own family synagogue exclusively, without letting in the other Jews living in Bozzolo. Folder no. 47, file no. 2 includes documents related to the debt of the Jewish banker Salomone Treves to Isach Emanuele Portaleone (1749-1775) and a similar document is in folder no. 109, file no. 66, related to two Jewish brothers, Anselmo and Cressino Levi (1602).
- Archival history:
- The Castiglioni family's Archive was transferred to the State Archive of Mantua in various phases in 1940, 1960 and 2011. Other material in this Archive was purchased by the State Archive of Mantua from antiquarians in 1993. 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:
- 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).
- Access points: locations:
- Bozzolo
- Finding aids:
- Descriptions of these materials are only partially available, sometimes only at the reading room of the State Archive of Mantua. A short description of the material delivered in 1940 was published in 1941 in the bulletin "Notizie degli Archivi di Stato" (NAS, 1941, n. 1, p. 7-8), while the Guida Generale degli Archivi di Stato, published in 1963-1969, provides very limited information.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/dga/uploads/documents/Rassegna/Notizie_AASS_1941.pdf
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Samuela Marconcini; Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea; 2018
