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I Mattei «di Paganica»: una famiglia romana tra XV e XVII secolo

2011

The Mattei "of Paganica”: a Roman family from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. This essay examines the history of the Roman family Mattei, and especially of one of its branches, that of the lords of Paganica, between the fifteenth and seventeenth century. The study is based on unpublished documents (notarial acts and family correspondences). Although the narration is strictly genealogical and biographic, the history of the Mattei of Paganica is hardly unique; in fact, it is exemplary of the forms in which, over generations, the economic and social primacy of Roman noble families manifested itself, and of the strategies these families employed to maintain and perpetuate their eminen…