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Documentary Sources and Bibliography

The academic, legal and newspaper support of our family history.

The reconstruction of the history of the Pozzo Ardizzi family is not based solely on oral tradition, but on a rigorous compilation of written sources, academic publications, and civil and parish records from both Italy and Argentina.

Bibliography Consulted (Key Sources)

  • DEL POZZO, Simone. Libro d'Estimo generale della città di Vigevano.
    Autograph manuscript, 1550.
    The fundamental primary source written by the family's own chronicler.
  • SACCHETTI, Egidio. "Vigevano Illustrato".
    Published by G. P. E. Ramellati, Milan, 1648.
    Key source for the origin of the surname and the noble titles of the 15th Century.
  • BRAMBILLA, Carlo Stefano. La Chiesa di Vigevano.
    Milano: Camagni, 1669.
    Essential documentation on the family's ecclesiastical patronage.
  • ARCHIVIO STORICO COMUNALE. Vigevano, Italia.
    Repository of the original deeds, wills, and civic records cited in this research.
  • GHISALBERTI, Alberto Maria & PAVAN, Massimiliano. "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani" (Vol. 4).
    Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1962. Pág. 40.
    Detailed biography of Abramo Ardizzi and his diplomatic work.

Vital Records and Censuses

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Historical Censuses

Vigevano Census (1848-1865) and Argentina Census (1895).

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Certificates

Birth, Baptism, Marriage and Death certificates.

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Secondary Sources, Chronicles and Studies (Chicago Style)

Complete compendium of all sources consulted, including classical historical bibliography and modern studies.

  • Ackerman, James S. Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991.
  • Napoleonic suppression acts. Milan State Archives.
  • Milan State Archives (ASMi). Registri delle Missive Ducali (Sforza Collection) and 'Fondo Religione, p.te antica' (Folder 1202).
  • Archivo Notarile di Vigevano. Notarial instrument of Claudio de Ferrari, August 21, 1539.
  • Pozzo Ardizzi Family Private Archive. Genealogical Chart of the Pozzo Ardizzi Family. [Parchment manuscript]. 18th century (estimated). Argentina.
  • Vatican Secret Archives. Records of the Apostolic Chancery (15th-16th centuries).
  • Bertelli, Sergio. Il corpo del re: sacralità del potere nell'Europa medievale e moderna. Firenze: Ponte alle Grazie, 1990.
  • Biffignandi Buccella, Pietro. Memorie storiche della città e del contado di Vigevano. Vigevano: 1870 (Reprint).
  • Black, Christopher F. Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  • Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
  • C.E.M.L.A. (Center for Latin American Migration Studies). "Database of passenger entries to Argentina". Accessed in 2024.
  • Cavagna Sangiuliani, Antonio. L'agro vigevanese. Milano: 1890.
  • Chittolini, Giorgio. Metamorfosi di un borgo: Vigevano in età visconteo-sforzesca. Milano: Franco Angeli, 1992.
  • Colombo, Alessandro. "Le origini del comune di Vigevano e i suoi diplomi imperiali". Archivio Storico Lombardo, Serie 5, Vol. 41 (1914).
  • Corio, Bernardino. Historia di Milano. Milano: Alessandro Minuziano, 1503.
  • Crollalanza, G.B. di. Dizionario storico-blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane. Pisa: 1886.
  • 17th century chronicle. Transcription in private collection (copy consulted at the Vatican Apostolic Library, Barberini collection).
  • Della Porta, Agostino. "De originibus populi viglevanensis" [1490]. En Miscellanea di Storia Italiana, Torino, 1892.
  • Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
  • Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. Imperial Diploma granting freedom to Vigevano. 1065.
  • Geary, Patrick J. Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
  • Grubb, James S. Provincial Families of the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
  • Guelfi Camaiani, Guelfo. Dizionario araldico. Milano: Hoepli, 1940.
  • Hibbard, Howard. The Architecture of the Palazzo Borghese. Roma: American Academy in Rome, 1962.
  • DGABAP Report. "SANTA MARIA INTUS VINEAS". Ministerial technical documentation.
  • Kucher, Michael P. The Water Supply System of Siena, Italy. New York: Routledge, 2005.
  • Lowenthal, David. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  • Lubkin, Gregory. A Renaissance Court: Milan under Galeazzo Maria Sforza. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  • Manno, Antonio. Vocabolario araldico ufficiale. Roma: 1907.
  • Ministero della Cultura (Italia). "Portale Antenati: Gli Archivi per la Ricerca Anagrafica". Accessed in 2024.
  • Ministero della Cultura (Italia). "Reliquiarlo di Abramo Ardizzi," scheda ICCD n. 0300001537.
  • Muir, Edward. Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.
  • Muratori, Ludovico Antonio. Antichità Estensi ed Italiane. Modena: 1717-1740.
  • Partner, Peter. The Pope's Men: The Papal Civil Service in the Renaissance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
  • Pastoureau, Michel. Traité d'héraldique. Paris: Picard, 1979.
  • Pozzo Ardizzi, Luis. The literary and journalistic production of Luis Pozzo Ardizzi. [Compilation, c. 1930]. Private Archive.
  • Prodi, Paolo. The Papal Prince. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  • Records of the Monastery of San Maiolo di Pavia (1202). Archivio di Stato di Pavia.
  • Santoro, Caterina. Gli uffici del dominio sforzesco: 1450-1500. Fondazione Treccani, 1948.
  • Società Storica Lombarda. Archivio Storico Lombardo. (Description of corner windows and epigraphy, Series IV, Vol. XIX).
  • Spreti, Vittorio. Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare italiana. Milano: 1928-1936.
  • Tettoni, L. e Saladini, F. Teatro araldico, ovvero Raccolta generale delle armi ed insegne gentilizi. Milano: 1841.
  • Vaglienti, A. Storia di Milano. Milano: 1950.
  • Voragine, Jacobus de. Legenda Aurea. Ed. Giovanni Paolo Maggioni. Firenze: SISMEL, 1998.
  • Webb, Diana. Patrons and Defenders: The Saints in the Italian City-States. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1996.
  • Zucchi, Alberto. Il fatto d'armi di Vigevano. Vigevano: 1930.