Metadata: Castiglioni. Donation 2011
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 quinquies
- Title:
- Castiglioni. Donation 2011
- Title (official language):
- Archivio Castiglioni. Donazione 2011
- Date(s):
- 1400-1999
- Date note:
- 15th-20th century
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Extent:
- 242 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains documents donated in 2011 by the Castiglioni family, whose most famous member had been Baldassarre Castiglione, Renaissance diplomat and author of the “Book of the Courtier”. In folder no. 9, there is a file containing the notarial acts against the Jewish bankers Isach Norsa and Benvenuto Sula, at the presence of the “Commissario degli ebrei”, a Christian judge elected by the Duke of Mantua to be the only figure dealing with civil and criminal Jewish laws, in cases interfering with Christians (1645). In folder no. 61, there is a file containing notarial acts against the Jewish banker Nadanel Norsa (1691-1702). In folder no. 70 there is a collection of letters exchanged between Luigia Castiglioni and Emanuel Cantoni (1819-1824). In folder no. 139, there is a letter of condolences to the Jew Gioseffo Serighi for the loss of his father (1654). In folder no. 173 there are administrative documents related to the land Boscoldo, and the money received by the Jew Nadanel Norsa (1691-1695).
- 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).
- 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