Description
Archives
The Palatina library has also collected some archives of protagonists of the history of Parma in the 19th and 20th centuries:
- Archive Andrea Borri (1935-2003), notary, member of parliament from 1976 to 1994, president of the Province of Parma from 1999 to 2003;
- Archive Carlo Buzzi, member of parliament from 1952 to 1983, senator for two legislatures, member of the Government, long-time president of the Italian Association of Catholic Teachers;
- Baldassarre Molossi Archive (1927-2003); contains the correspondence relating to the years of his management (1957-1992) of the historic local newspaper La Gazzetta di Parma;
Buzzi Archive
The archive was donated by the heirs to the Library in 2005, while the Association Centro Studi “Card. A. Casaroli”, represented by President Corrado Truffelli, acted as intermediary for obtaining the funds (granted by the Cariparma Foundation) and personnel necessary to carry out the work.
The Buzzi Papers deal with the main facts of national and local political history, covering a time span from 1945 to 2004.
The contents of the archive concern the correspondence with the most important names in national and local politics; there are also collections of newspapers, magazines and press reviews, statistical data relating to local and national votes, electoral propaganda material, texts of proposals and bills, photographs.
Carlo Buzzi began his political activity in 1946, when he was elected City Councilor in Parma, consistently realizing that synthesis between faith and politics, between religious commitment and social commitment that he always considered a precise duty.
He was provincial and national President of the Italian Association of Catholic Teachers; provincial Secretary of the National Union of Elementary Schools and member of the Central Executive Committee; member of the General Council of the CISL of Parma. He was national president of the National Agency for Teacher Assistance as well as founder and president of the Italian Federation of Nursery Schools of Parma.
He carried out intense action in the educational and social field, dealing with the assistance of minors as Provincial Commissioner of the National Agency for the moral protection of children. His commitment to the Christian Democracy was also incessant: city councilor in Parma, member of the provincial and regional Committees of Emilia-Romagna, then Senator of the College of Parma.
Micheli-Mariotti Archive and Library
The collections belonging to this fund are the result of the merger of the libraries and personal archives of Giuseppe Micheli (1874-1948) deputy, senator and minister, and of his uncle Giovanni Mariotti (1850-1935), mayor of Parma for a long time and also a deputy and senator [ download the inventory ]
The Library, rich in precious sixteenth and seventeenth century works, consists of approximately 6,000 volumes and 15,000 pamphlets, partially accessible through traditional catalog cards by author.
The Archive is instead presented as a notable collection of heterogeneous material, which has as a common element the history of Parma and its province from the Middle Ages to today. There are three main documentary nuclei:
- historical archive, or the historical-legal documents collected by Micheli in his activity as a scholar and erudite; the typology of the material ranges from notes, correspondence, notarial and procedural documents, parchments, administrative, economic and political documents of the states of Parma, etc.:
- political-family archive, that is, the documents of the Micheli family, with particular attention to the political role of Micheli himself in his activity as a popular Catholic, and of his uncle Giovanni Mariotti:
- Personal and family papers (1897-1946) [Adobe PDF];
- ministerial archive of Giuseppe Micheli: this is the correspondence held in his capacity as Minister of Agriculture and Public Works:
- I. Catholic movements (1892-1948; with documents from 1867) [Adobe PDF];
- II. Economic-productive activities (1894- 1944) [Adobe PDF];
- III. Miscellaneous activities (1902-1935) [Adobe PDF];
- IV. Infrastructure and territory (1904-1948; with doc. from 1859) [Adobe PDF];
- V. Ministry of Agriculture (1920-1921) [Adobe PDF];
- VI. Ministry of Public Works (1921-1922) [ Adobe PDF ];
- VII. Political activity after the Second World War (1943-1948) [ Adobe PDF ];
- VIII. Ministry of the Navy (1946-1947) [ Adobe PDF ];
These last two parts of the archive, namely the papers that most directly concern the historical-political figures of Giovanni Mariotti and Giuseppe Micheli, have been reorganized and treated with a computerized cataloguing.
- Francesco Pedrazzi’s Epistolary [ Adobe PDF ]: among the many papers forming part of the impressive Micheli-Mariotti Archive present in the Palatina Library of Parma, a group of letters, which had until now gone unnoticed, has recently been recovered, concerning one of the most famous Italian tenors of the 19th century.
- Bibliography: PAOLA CIRANI, The biography of the nineteenth-century tenor Antonio Francesco Pedrazzi in the unpublished collection of letters preserved among the treasures of the Palatina Library of Parma [ Adobe PDF ] in “Postumia” 3/1-3 2020, pp. 201-239
There are also 120 literary manuscripts in volume from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
Correspondence
Parma Epistolary
The collection of letters, still open to new accessions, contains letters from illustrious and lesser-known figures linked to the world of Parma, from the 16th to the 20th centuries, acquired by donation or purchase by the Library.
In 1911, Antonio Boselli, the librarian charged by the then director of the Library Edoardo Alvisi with reorganizing the correspondence, divided it by individual people or families, and within them he reordered the individual letters in alphabetical order of sender.
Divided into boxes, it includes:
- Correspondence I. Affò (1741-1797): boxes 1-24. In 1778 he was appointed vice-librarian in Parma; and in 1785 he succeeded the librarian Paciaudi (who died that year) as librarian: to this office were later added those of ducal historian and honorary professor of history at the university;
- GB Bodoni correspondence (1740-1813): boxes 25-60;
- Correspondence of Margherita Dall’Aglio, Bodoni’s widow (1758-1841): boxes 61-64;
- Correspondence PM Paciaudi (1710-1785): boxes 65-95;
- Correspondence of Cardinal A. Farnese (1520-1589): boxes 96-108;
- Correspondence GB De Rossi (1742-1831): boxes 109-123;
- Correspondence L. Bramieri (1757-1820): cassettes 124-127. Professor of Literature from Piacenza, he became secretary at the University of Parma and professor of poetics. He was among the members of the One Hundred Ordinaries of the Italian Academy, as well as a collegiate judge and secretary of the Accademia degli Ortolani;
- Farnese Correspondence (16th-18th century): boxes 128-131;
- Gonzaga Correspondence (16th-17th century): boxes 132-134;
- Correspondence to A. Mazza (1724-1797): boxes 135-140;
- Correspondence V. Siri (1608-1685): boxes 141-144;
- Albergati-Capacelli correspondence (1728-1804): box 145;
- Correspondence of G. Fantuzzi (1718-1799). box 146;
- Correspondence of M. Girardi (1713-1797): box 147;
- Correspondence T. Ravasini (1665-1715). box 148;
- Correspondence of the Smeraldi family (14th-17th century): box 148;
- Correspondence A. Ronchini (1812-1890): box 149;
- Fragmentary correspondence (boxes 150-164);
- Correspondence of P. Zani (1748-1821): boxes 165-167;
- Correspondence A. Tommasini (1780-1839): boxes 168-170;
- Correspondence of G. Tommasini (1768-1846): boxes 171-183;
- Correspondence of R. Tonani (1759-1833): boxes 184-189;
- Pezzana correspondence (1772-1862): cassettes 190-235;
- Sanvitale – Simonetta correspondence (19th century): boxes 236-264;
- Correspondence of C. Pigorini Beri (1845-1924): boxes 265-273;
- Correspondence in reorganization (boxes 274-281);
- Correspondence between G. Galilei and his students (box 282);
- Correspondence M.Leoni – G. De Castagnola (1776-1858): box 283;
- Correspondence L. Testi (1857-1924): boxes 284-285;
- Correspondence and documents L. Barbieri (1827-1899): boxes 286-287;
- Correspondence P. Strobel (1821-1895)
Lucca Correspondence
Acquired together with the Palatine collection of the Bourbon-Lucca family in 1865, it is preserved in 6 boxes and contains autographs of various people.
Correspondence Michele Colombo (1747-1838)
Bound in 14 volumes, important for the literary observations that emerge from the letters.
Documentary collections
The Palatina Library also collects a certain number of documentary funds; among them we point out:
- P. Casapini Fund (1773-1842);
- Moreau de Saint-Méry Fund (1750-1819);
- Paciaudi Papers, with documents relating to his studies, his duties and the Order of Malta;
- Pezzana Papers, which collect documents and autographs of his works;
- Perreau Papers (1827-1911);
- Papers from the Monastery of Sant’Ulderico and the Monastery of San Giovanni;
- De Rossi family papers;
- L. Bramieri Papers (1757-1820);
- Manuscripts of Pietro Vitali (1759-1839);
- Tommasini Manuscripts (1768-1846);
- Boselli Papers (to be reordered) (1879-1955);
- Lina Gozzi cards (to be reordered);
- Luigi Barbieri Papers (1827-1899);
- Emilio Casa Fund (1819-1904);
- Laudadeo Testi Papers (1857-1924);
- Giordani exchange cards (Santorini, Girardi, Covolo, Mistrali, Pizzetti, Gasparotti et al. );
- G. Rasori Papers (1766-1837);
- Italo Pizzi Cards (1849-1920);
- Papers Tommaso Gasparotti (1785-1847).