Collezione Antonelli
Item
Country
IT
Name of institution (English)
Ariostea Municipal Library
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
ita
Contact information: postal address
Palazzo Paradiso, Via delle Scienze 17, 44121 Ferrara
Contact information: phone number
0039 0532418200
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
info.ariostea@comune.fe.it
Reference number
Coll. Ant.
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Antonelli Collection
Title (official language of the state)
Collezione Antonelli
Language of title
ita
Creator / accumulator
Giuseppe Antonelli
Date note
12th century/19th century
Language(s)
gre
ita
lat
Extent
968 storage units
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
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).
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).
Archival history
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.
Administrative / Biographical history
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
Carla Vieira, 2022
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