Archivio notarile distrettuale di Pesaro
Item
Country
IT
Name of institution (English)
State Archives of Pesaro
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
ita
Contact information: postal address
Via della Neviera 44, 61121 Pesaro
Contact information: phone number
0039 072131851
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
as-pu@beniculturali.it
Reference number
Archivio notarile
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Pesaro District Notarial Archive
Title (official language of the state)
Archivio notarile distrettuale di Pesaro
Language of title
ita
Creator / accumulator
Archivio notarile distrettuale di Pesaro
Date(s)
1434/1906
Language(s)
ita
lat
Extent
6,755 storage units (207 folders and 6,548 volumes)
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Archivio notarile distrettuale di Pesaro comprises records produced by notaries active in the city of Pesaro and its district since the 15th century. Among this extensive volume of documentation, it is possible to find highly relevant information on the Jewish community of Pesaro and, in particular, the Iberian Jews and conversos who settled in this city, especially after the mid-16th century. Pesaro became a destination for Iberian exiles expelled from other Italian cities or persecuted by the Inquisition in the Papal States. The policy implemented by Duke Guido Ubaldo of Urbino of opening the city to Portuguese "Marrani" (Conversos, supposedly Judaizers), as well as the persecution undertaken by Pope Paul IV in Ancona in 1555, contributed to increasing the local Jewish community. The banishment of the Jews from the cities of the Papal States in 1569 — with the exception of Rome and Ancona — also led several Sephardim to Pesaro.
Traces of the background, social relations and economic activities of the Sephardic families and individuals who settled in Pesaro since the 1540s can be found in deeds produced by Pesaro notaries during this period. A good example is the numerous documentation in this fonds related to the settlement of the Portuguese Jewish banker Manuel Lopes Bichacho in Pesaro. In 1548, Duke Guidobaldo gave him the "condotta" (license) of a pawnbroking bank in Pesaro for three years (Francesco Brettarini, reg. 1544-1549, fols. 217r-222v). After this period, Bichacho negotiated the renovation of the license. In April 1552, he paid 1,050 ductas to the ducal treasure in exchange for the permission to keep his residence in Pesaro during the term of the new banking license. Then, up to 35 other Portuguese Jewish families were allowed to settle in Pesaro (Almerico Emilioni, reg. 1536-1557, fols. 387r-388v). In August of the same year, Bichacho presented a list of ten Portuguese householders who were to operate under his license under certain conditions and against the payment of an additional tax to the Duke (A. Emilioni, reg. 1536-1557, fols. 450r-452r). These and other documents related to Bichacho are mentioned and published in Leoni (1999).
The following are a few other examples of documents from this fonds related to Sephardim operating in 16th century Pesaro:
G. A. Garattoni, vol. 1550-1553, May 13, 1549, and March 18, 1550; Alessandro Allegruci, reg. 1547-1554, October 29, 1550: references to the Portuguese Jewish merchant Moshe Cassam (or Cação), who, according to these documents, was active in trade and financial operations in Pesaro in the mid-16th century.
Alessandro Allegrucci, reg. 1547-1554: copy of a deed in which four Jews from Pesaro (Ysac de Stella, Abraam and Yacob Alalvo and Abram Guat) were entrusted by Levantine merchants to recover goods, in the island of Candia, from a Turkish ship that had been seized by pirates. Alessandria, January 5, 1556.
Francesco Fattori, vol. 9, fols. 84r-85: Jerónimo Vargas entrusted his father Levy Atias and a lawyer from Ferrara to represent himself in a suit against the printer G. M. Niccolin. December 9, 1557. This document, identified by Renata Segre (1992), is a rare piece of evidence on the presence of Vargas, one of the responsibles for the edition of the Bible of Ferrara (1553), in Pesaro.
Traces of the background, social relations and economic activities of the Sephardic families and individuals who settled in Pesaro since the 1540s can be found in deeds produced by Pesaro notaries during this period. A good example is the numerous documentation in this fonds related to the settlement of the Portuguese Jewish banker Manuel Lopes Bichacho in Pesaro. In 1548, Duke Guidobaldo gave him the "condotta" (license) of a pawnbroking bank in Pesaro for three years (Francesco Brettarini, reg. 1544-1549, fols. 217r-222v). After this period, Bichacho negotiated the renovation of the license. In April 1552, he paid 1,050 ductas to the ducal treasure in exchange for the permission to keep his residence in Pesaro during the term of the new banking license. Then, up to 35 other Portuguese Jewish families were allowed to settle in Pesaro (Almerico Emilioni, reg. 1536-1557, fols. 387r-388v). In August of the same year, Bichacho presented a list of ten Portuguese householders who were to operate under his license under certain conditions and against the payment of an additional tax to the Duke (A. Emilioni, reg. 1536-1557, fols. 450r-452r). These and other documents related to Bichacho are mentioned and published in Leoni (1999).
The following are a few other examples of documents from this fonds related to Sephardim operating in 16th century Pesaro:
G. A. Garattoni, vol. 1550-1553, May 13, 1549, and March 18, 1550; Alessandro Allegruci, reg. 1547-1554, October 29, 1550: references to the Portuguese Jewish merchant Moshe Cassam (or Cação), who, according to these documents, was active in trade and financial operations in Pesaro in the mid-16th century.
Alessandro Allegrucci, reg. 1547-1554: copy of a deed in which four Jews from Pesaro (Ysac de Stella, Abraam and Yacob Alalvo and Abram Guat) were entrusted by Levantine merchants to recover goods, in the island of Candia, from a Turkish ship that had been seized by pirates. Alessandria, January 5, 1556.
Francesco Fattori, vol. 9, fols. 84r-85: Jerónimo Vargas entrusted his father Levy Atias and a lawyer from Ferrara to represent himself in a suit against the printer G. M. Niccolin. December 9, 1557. This document, identified by Renata Segre (1992), is a rare piece of evidence on the presence of Vargas, one of the responsibles for the edition of the Bible of Ferrara (1553), in Pesaro.
Archival history
Over the 19th century, the Archivio notarile centrale di Pesaro (Central Notarial Archive of Pesaro) gradually aggregated documentation from municipal notarial archives belonging to its district. According to an inventory carried out by an official of the Soprintendenza agli Archivi romani (Superintendence of the Roman Archives) in 1877, the archive of Pesaro preserved then notarial records dating back to 1434.
The oldest documentation of the Archivio notarile distrettuale di Pesaro was transferred to the Archivio di Stato in 1959. This first incorporation included deeds of 444 notaries who worked in Pesaro from 1434 to 1879 (5,454 volumes), registers of foreign notaries' deeds from 1658 to 1816 (4 volumes), as well 18th- and 19th-century copies, indexes and several inventories. Further incorporations were made in 1975, 1981, 1994, 2007 and 2009, but these records are still in process of organisation.
The first inventory of the fonds was composed by Gian Galeazzo Scorza, director of the Archivio di Stato di Pesado, in 1965. It was updated by Sara Cambrini and Maria Neve Fogliamanzillo in 2010.
The oldest documentation of the Archivio notarile distrettuale di Pesaro was transferred to the Archivio di Stato in 1959. This first incorporation included deeds of 444 notaries who worked in Pesaro from 1434 to 1879 (5,454 volumes), registers of foreign notaries' deeds from 1658 to 1816 (4 volumes), as well 18th- and 19th-century copies, indexes and several inventories. Further incorporations were made in 1975, 1981, 1994, 2007 and 2009, but these records are still in process of organisation.
The first inventory of the fonds was composed by Gian Galeazzo Scorza, director of the Archivio di Stato di Pesado, in 1965. It was updated by Sara Cambrini and Maria Neve Fogliamanzillo in 2010.
Administrative / Biographical history
The Archivio notarile comunale di Pesaro was founded on an uncertain date, after the reorganisation of the notarial recordkeeping undertaken by Pope Sixtus V in 1588. The notarial archive of Pesaro functioned uninterruptedly until the Napoleonic period (1805-1814), when the notarial archives were stored in the Dipartimento del Metauro (Metauro Department) in Ancona. After the Restoration, the notarial archive of Pesaro was restored and became the Archivio notarile centrale (Central Notarial Archive) after Pope Pius VII provision in 1822. Over the following decades, it concentrated the records of several municipal notarial archives, such as those of Montelabbate, Gradara, Mombaroccio and Sant'Angelo. With the unification of Italy, a royal decree of June 26, 1879, classified the archive of Pesaro as district, renaming it as Archivio notarile distrettuale di Pesaro. In the 20th century, the archive incorporated the records of the extinct district notary archives of Cagli, Fossombrone, Macerata Feltria, Mondavio, Pennabilli, Pergola, San Leo, Sant'Agata Feltria and Sant'Angelo in Vado.
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Access points: document types
System of arrangement
The records are organised by notary and follow an chronological order.
Finding aids
Unpublished catalogues available in the archive:
Scorza, Gian Galeazzo. 1965. "Archivio notarile distrettuale di Pesaro. Inventario". Summary inventory.
Cambrini, Sara, and Maria Neve Fogliamanzillo. 2010. "Archivio notarile distrettuale di Pesaro. Inventario sommario". Summary inventory.
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Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2022
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