Collezione Antonelli
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Country
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IT
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Name of institution (English)
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Ariostea Municipal Library
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Language of name of institution
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ita
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Contact information: postal address
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Palazzo Paradiso, Via delle Scienze 17, 44121 Ferrara
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Contact information: phone number
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0039 0532418200
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Contact information: email
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info.ariostea@comune.fe.it
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Reference number
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Coll. Ant.
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (English)
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Antonelli Collection
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Title (official language of the state)
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Collezione Antonelli
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Language of title
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ita
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Creator / accumulator
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Giuseppe Antonelli
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Date note
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12th century/19th century
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Language(s)
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gre
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ita
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lat
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Extent
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968 storage units
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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The Collezione Antonelli contains the private collection of Monsignor Giuseppe Antonelli and consists of 968 units. It is a rather heterogeneous collection that comprises documents on the history of Ferrara, such as chronicles, memoirs, or statutes, and related to illustrious families and authors from Ferrara or linked to the city. In addition, the collection also reflects other interests of the collector, containing some precious manuscripts of Latin and Greek classics, including Ovid, Aristotle, Juvenal, Cornelio Tacito or the Church Fathers, such as Saint Augustin. The chronological scope of the collection is extensive, covering a period from the 12th to the 19th century, but with a predominance of manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Among the items related to local history, there is a manuscript copy of Marco Savonarola's Cronaca di Ferrara (MS 485), which includes a passage on the expulsion from Ferrara, in September 1549, of the Portuguese "Marani" (conversos) that had arrived at the city in the previous four months, especially from Antwerp. The same chronicle records their return in the following year, after the safe-conduct given by Ercole II in February. Published in Leoni (2011).
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Archival history
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The Collezione Antonelli was incorporated into the Biblioteca Ariostea in 1884, when the heirs of the canon Giuseppe Antonelli, librarian of the Biblioteca from 1824 to 1862, sold his private collection to the Municipality of Ferrara. The collection was bought for 10,803 lire and deposited into the Ariostea.
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(source: Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea: Cataloghi speciali e fondi)
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Administrative / Biographical history
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Monsignor Giuseppe Antonelli worked in the Biblioteca civica of Ferrara since 1824 and was its director from 1845 to 1862. Later, he became an emeritus librarian of the Ferrara Library until his death in 1884.
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2022
