Denominations
Monte di pietà di Corneto (1514-1922), Monte di pietà di Tarquinia (1922-1930ca)
Activity period
1514-1530ca
Location
Nation/Country: Italia - Region: Lazio - Province/District: Viterbo - City: Tarquinia
History
A seventeenth-century chronicle records an attempt to found a Monte di pietà in Corneto (nowadays Tarquinia) already in 1446, following the preaching of the Franciscan observant Giacomo da Rieti. It is uncertain how attendable this information can be. Certainly a Monte existed in 1514 and its foundation was later ratified by Gregory XIII in 1579. The institute suffered severe losses when it was spolitated by the napoleonic troops, but it was later reopened with private and public funding in 1818. The last known revision of the statutes in from 1906. The precise date of its closure is unknown, but it should have occurred in the early 1930s.
Activities
Pawnbroking
Denomination
Monte di pietà di Corneto (fondo)
Date
1631-1660
Consistency
7 units
Archive keeper
Archivio diocesano di Tarquinia
Archival history
Other documents produced by the Monte should be preserved in the local Archivio storico comunale.
Research tools
Guida degli Archivi diocesani d'Italia, III, a cura di VIncenzo Monachino, Emanuele Boaga, Luciano Osbat, Salvatore Palese, Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali - Ufficio centrale per i beni archivistici, 1998, pp. 359-361.
Bibliography
Francesco Guerri, L'origine del Monte di Pietà di Corneto, in Scritti di Storia di Filologia e d'Arte, Napoli, 1908, pp. 209-220; Vittorino Meneghin, I Monti di Pietà in Italia dal 1462 al 1562, Vicenza, Lief, 1986, pp. 99-100; Franco Lazzari, Il Lazio tra solidarietà e credito. Origini e sviluppo dei Monti di pietà, Velletri, Città di Velletri, 2009, pp. 65-67