Metadata: Luigi Martini Papers
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:
- 49
- Title:
- Luigi Martini Papers
- Title (official language):
- Carte Martini Luigi
- Date(s):
- 1835-1875
- Language:
- Italian
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains documents of the priest Luigi Martini, who was charged with the task of consoling the so-called Belfiore martyrs, a group of Italian pro-independence fighters condemned to death by hanging in 1853, named after the site where the sentence was carried out, in the valley of Belfiore, at the south entrance of Mantua. Among the documents kept in the fonds, there are some letters written by the Italian Jewish patriot Giuseppe Finzi when he was in prison in Josephstadt, Vienna (1853).
- Archival history:
-
Martini's papers were received by the State Archive of Mantua in 1912.
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:
-
Luigi Martini (1803-1877) was a Mantuan presbyter, author of the "Confortatorio di Mantova" (1867) dedicated to the "Belfiore Martyrs" (the eleven Mantuan patriots condemned to death by hanging between 1852 and 1853).
See also http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/luigi-martini_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/
- Access points: persons/families:
- Finzi, Giuseppe, 1815-1886
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Revolutions
- Finding aids:
- Guida generale degli Archivi di Stato. Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Samuela Marconcini; Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea; 2018