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Nota de estado
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Finalizado
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Country
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IT
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Name of institution (English)
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Vatican Apostolic Archives
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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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Cortile del Belvedere, 00120 Vatican City
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Contact information: phone number
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0039 0669883314
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0039 0669883211
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Contact information: email
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archivio@aav.va
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Reference number
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Fondo Borghese
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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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Borghese Fonds
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Title (official language of the state)
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Fondo Borghese
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Language of title
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ita
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Creator / accumulator
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Borghese, Aldobrandini and Salviati families
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Date(s)
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1592/1621
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Language(s)
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ita
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lat
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Extent
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2,000 storage units
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Physical condition
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Good
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Scope and content
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The Fondo Borghese is currently divided into five series, which interact with two other archival collections present in the Archivio Apostolico Vaticatono: the Archivio Borghese and the Fondo Salviati. The Borghese fonds contains official acts of the Holy See, correspondence with the nuncios, minutes and registers of letters written by popes, cardinals and prelates. It includes documents related to the pontificates of Clement VIII Aldobrandini (1592-1605) and Paolo V Borghese (1605-1621). The fonds also comprises various types of documents related to the government of the Church and the Papal States. Among the documentation preserved in this fonds, there are some records regarding the negotiations undertaken by attorneys of the Portuguese New Christians before the Holy See, with the aim of achieving the general pardon and the reform of the Inquisition in Portugal. It is the case of the "Memoriale porrectum a noviter conversis Regni Portugalliae continens narrativam rerum gestarum circa eos a regibus, et Inquisitoribus illius Regni spatio 48 anni" (series 1, no. 893), and of the late 16th century collection of accounts by the Portuguese New Christians against the proceedings of the Portuguese Inquisition, as well as papal bulls regarding the Iberian inquisitions (about this document, see Mateus and Nelson Novoa, 2008).
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Archival history
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The original nucleus of this vast collection consisted of documents from the Borghese family archive, which was enriched with the archives of two other families: the Aldobrandini, following the marriage of Paolo Borghese with Olimpia Aldobrandini; and the Salviati, following the marriage of Marcantonio Borghese with Marianna Salviati. The fonds was acquired by the Holy See in 1892, directly from the Borghese family.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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The Borghese family was a noble family originally from Siena, who moved to Rome in the 16th century. After the election of Camillo Borghese as Pope Paul V in 1605, the family gained notoriety and influence. Paul V bestowed privileges upon family members and named as cardinal his nephew Scipione Caffarelli (1576–1633), who ended up playing a leading role in church politics and arts, as a patron of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). He also funded the restoration and construction of some buildings in Rome, among them the Villa Borghese, where he gathered his art collection.
Another nephew of Pope Paul V, Marcantonio II (1601–58), who obtained the principality of Sulmona and became prince of Vivaro, married Camilla Orsini in 1619, thereby joining the estates of the Orsini family to the Borghese House. His son Paolo married Olimpia, the heiress of the Aldobrandini family. Paolo and Olimpia's grandson, Marcoantonio III (1660–1729), became viceroy of Naples. His nephew Marcantonio IV (1730–1800) enlarged the family estates through his marriage to Maria Salviati. A son of Marcantonio IV, Camillo Fillipo Ludovico (1775–1832), married Napoleon's sister Marie Pauline in 1803 and was named governor of Piedmont during the French occupation. Camillo's reputation was stained for having sold the Borghese family art collection to Napoleon. Only a part of it was recovered in 1815. The grandsons of Francesco Borghese, Camillo's brother, split the family into two branches: the Borghese and the Torlonia.
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"Borghese Family" in Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Access points: corporate bodies
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Holy See
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Finding aids
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Indexes available for consultation in the archive: Indici 192, 193, 1052.
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Author of the description
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Andrea Cicerchia and Carla Vieira, 2022
