Cartari Febei
Item
Country
IT
Name of institution (English)
State Archives of Rome
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
ita
Contact information: postal address
Complesso di Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, Corso del Rinascimento 40, 00186 Rome
Contact information: phone number
0039 06/67235600
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
as-rm@beniculturali.it
Reference number
ASRm, Cartari Febei
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state)
Cartari Febei
Language of title
ita
Creator / accumulator
Cartari Febei family
Date(s)
1501/1854
Language(s)
ita
lat
Extent
208 volumes, 77 folders, 21 files and 2 documents
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Cartari-Febei collection mainly preserves the memories and correspondence of the members of these two families originally from Orvieto, in Umbria, corresponding to the 16th and 17th centuries. It includes personal documents as well as originals and copies of official documents produced in the exercise of judicial and literary functions carried out by these family members. They mainly concern the political, judicial, and cultural context of the territories belonging to the Papal State at the time.
The collection is divided into five series: 1. Privilegi-Carteggio-Strumenti Notarili-carte Amministrative e finanziarie delle famiglie Cartari e Febei (privileges, correspondence, notarial deeds, and administrative and financial papers of the Cartari and Febei families, bb. [folders] 1-58, dating from 1399-1844); 2. Diari-Notizie storiche di diverse località, enti e luoghi dello Stato della Chiesa-Legazioni-Ambascerie-Canonizzazioni-Festeggiamenti (diaries, historical information on various places, entities and places of the Papal State, allegations, embassies, canonisations, and celebrations, bb. 59-127, dating from 1539 to the 19th century); 3. Decisiones. Sententiae. Notizie sulle Magistrature di Roma e dello Stato della Chiesa. Atti processuali vari (decisions, sentences, reports on the magistracies of Rome and the Papal State, and various procedural documents, bb. 128-155, dating from the 16th to the 17th centuries); 4. Opere manoscritte di carattere araldico, genealogico, storico, giuridico, letterario, geografico, teologico, astronomico e meccanico – bb. 156-260 (handwritten works on Heraldics, Genealogy, History, Law, Literature, Geography, Theology, Astronomy and Mechanics, bb. 156-260, dating from the 17th to the 18th centuries); 5. Miscellanea e Appendice (miscellany and appendix, bb. 261-281).
For the purposes of research dedicated to the Jewish diaspora in the Early Modern period, the following documents are particularly noteworthy:
Series I, no. 64, fols. 226-227: letter by Gabriel da Fonseca with an autobiographical remark. March 6, 1657. Published in Novoa (2013).
Series IV, no. 184: manuscript of Carlo Cartari (17th century), referring to families, financial offices, "Jews", fortresses, philosophy, etc.;
Series IV, no. 194: “Historia del martirio di S. Simone di Trento scritta dal Bricci”, and declaration on some Hebrew words which are written in this work (fols. 1-17).
The collection is divided into five series: 1. Privilegi-Carteggio-Strumenti Notarili-carte Amministrative e finanziarie delle famiglie Cartari e Febei (privileges, correspondence, notarial deeds, and administrative and financial papers of the Cartari and Febei families, bb. [folders] 1-58, dating from 1399-1844); 2. Diari-Notizie storiche di diverse località, enti e luoghi dello Stato della Chiesa-Legazioni-Ambascerie-Canonizzazioni-Festeggiamenti (diaries, historical information on various places, entities and places of the Papal State, allegations, embassies, canonisations, and celebrations, bb. 59-127, dating from 1539 to the 19th century); 3. Decisiones. Sententiae. Notizie sulle Magistrature di Roma e dello Stato della Chiesa. Atti processuali vari (decisions, sentences, reports on the magistracies of Rome and the Papal State, and various procedural documents, bb. 128-155, dating from the 16th to the 17th centuries); 4. Opere manoscritte di carattere araldico, genealogico, storico, giuridico, letterario, geografico, teologico, astronomico e meccanico – bb. 156-260 (handwritten works on Heraldics, Genealogy, History, Law, Literature, Geography, Theology, Astronomy and Mechanics, bb. 156-260, dating from the 17th to the 18th centuries); 5. Miscellanea e Appendice (miscellany and appendix, bb. 261-281).
For the purposes of research dedicated to the Jewish diaspora in the Early Modern period, the following documents are particularly noteworthy:
Series I, no. 64, fols. 226-227: letter by Gabriel da Fonseca with an autobiographical remark. March 6, 1657. Published in Novoa (2013).
Series IV, no. 184: manuscript of Carlo Cartari (17th century), referring to families, financial offices, "Jews", fortresses, philosophy, etc.;
Series IV, no. 194: “Historia del martirio di S. Simone di Trento scritta dal Bricci”, and declaration on some Hebrew words which are written in this work (fols. 1-17).
Archival history
The Cartari Febei collection was produced by the Cartari and Febei families, originally from Orvieto. It belonged to the Archivio di Stati di Siena (State archives of Siena), which had bought it from Count Piccolomini. Currently, it is preserved in the Archivio di Stato di Roma.
Administrative / Biographical history
For at least three generations, important exponents of legal culture in the Rome of the 16th and 17th centuries belonged to the Cartari and Febei families, originally from Orvieto. In particular, it should be highlighted Flaminio Cartari (1531-1593), jurist and author of Law works, and his son Giulivo (1559-1633), who was "fiscale generale" (general fiscal official) of the Apostolic Chamber and also a writer of books on Law matters. Also noteworthy are Pietro Paolo Febei (1586-1649), who served as Bishop of Bagnoregio, and Carlo Cartari (1614-1697), Giulivo's son, a writer and memorialist, who, through his Ephemerides, allows us to reconstruct the social and cultural context of the Rome of the time (1642-1691). Their archive is one of the main best-preserved family archives at present.
Access points: locations
Access points: persons, families
Access points: subject terms
Access points: document types
System of arrangement
The collection is divided into five series.
Finding aids
De’ Colli, S. 1949. “L’archivio Cartari Febei.” Notizie degli Archivi di Stato 9.
Links to finding aids
Author of the description
Andrea Cicerchia, 2022
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