Denominations
Monte di pietà di Castel Goffredo (sec. XVI seconda metà-sec. XX prima metà)
Activity period
First half of 16th century – first half of 20th century
Location
Nation/Country: Italia - Region: Lombardia - Province/District: Mantova - City: Castel Goffredo
History
The Monte was founded in the second half of the sixteenth century, perhaps in the seventies, following the preaching of the Franciscans of Mantua. The institute passes to the administration of the local Congregazione di Carità during the Napoleonic period and remains so until its cessation, which occurred on an uncertain date, probably in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Activities
Pawnbroking (at the beginning without interest rate, then with a rate between 3% and 5%)
Denomination
Monte di pietà (dossier)
Link
http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/archivi/unita/MIUD01404E/
Date
1601-1867
Consistency
Papers 181
Archive keeper
Comune di Castel Goffredo
Archival history
The documentation produced by the Monte which has been preserved is reduced to a file of 181 cards, in the subseries “Beneficenza“ of the series “Carteggio ed atti“ of Archivio Storico Comunale di Castel Goffredo (section before 1870).
Areas and contents
Petitions for confirmation of privileges and instructions for administration.
Research tools
Archivio storico del Comune di Castel Goffredo. Inventario della sezione anteriore al 1870, a cura di G. Corbelli, Castel Goffredo, 1995
Bibliography
Giuseppina Panato, Gli ebrei di Castel Goffredo e il Monte di Pietà, in Gli ebrei a Castelgoffredo. Con uno studio sulla Bibbia Soncino di Brescia del 1494, a cura di Mauro Perani, Firenze, Giuntina, 1998, pp. 57-135; Eadem, Castel Goffredo, in Il credito e la carità, II: Monti di Pietà del territorio lombardo in Età moderna, a cura di Daniele Montanari, Milano, Vita e pensiero, 2001, pp. 105-153.