Benedetto Nostrini

Benedetto Nostrini (27 October 1784 – 20 February 1858) was an Italian archivist and secretary for the Nostrini family. He served as segretario della convocazione during the Convocazione Settentrionale della Famiglia Nostrini, held from 23 to 30 April 1811 at the Casa di San Michele in Aversa. Nostrini later wrote the Memoria familiare della Convocazione Settentrionale della Famiglia Nostrini, the main family account of the succession dispute between the northern and Calabrian branches.

Benedetto Nostrini
Born	(1784-10-27)27 October 1784 Aversa, Kingdom of Naples
Died	20 February 1858(1858-02-20) (aged 73) Casa di San Michele, Aversa, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Occupation	Archivist
Years active	1801–1854
Era	Pre-Vader Era
Known for	Secretary of the 1811 Nostrini convocation
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Title	Segretario della convocazione
Term	23 April 1811 – 30 April 1811
Spouse	Teresa Bellandi (m. 1815)
Family	Noord family

Early life and education

Benedetto Nostrini was born on 27 October 1784 in Aversa, then part of the Kingdom of Naples. He belonged to the northern branch of the Nostrini family, which used the Casa di San Michele as its administrative residence. He began private instruction on 15 September 1792 and entered the Seminario vescovile di Aversa as an external lay pupil on 3 October 1796. His education focused on Latin reading and formal handwriting. He left the seminary on 21 June 1800.

On 3 November 1800, Nostrini began notarial instruction under Carlo Bellandi in Aversa. Bellandi taught him to copy legal acts and prepare formal records for private households. This training prepared Nostrini for his later work in the Nostrini family archive.

Career

Nostrini entered service at the Casa di San Michele on 16 March 1801 as a copy clerk for the northern branch. He prepared copies of family documents and correspondence for Vittorio Nostrini. Following the land reforms in the Kingdom of Naples in 1806, the Nostrini household began reviewing its inheritance papers and the competing claims made by its branches. Nostrini was assigned to the Aversa household office under Vittorio on 8 February 1807. He copied correspondence exchanged with the Calabrian branch and arranged documents later presented during the family convocation.

On 23 April 1811, the opening day of the Convocazione Settentrionale della Famiglia Nostrini, Nostrini was appointed segretario della convocazione. He recorded the proceedings and maintained the speaking order used by the family council. His notes documented the dispute between Vittorio Nostrini and Saverio Nostrini over the position of capofamiglia and control of the central family archive.

The Atto della Convocazione was signed on 30 April 1811. Nostrini then began writing the Memoria familiare della Convocazione Settentrionale della Famiglia Nostrini. The memorial explained the origin of the dispute and recorded the council's proceedings. It also preserved the final resolutions and the objections made by Saverio and the southern party. Nostrini completed its first version on 18 June 1811. On 7 September, he catalogued the first archive chests transferred to Aversa under the settlement.

Nostrini was appointed archivista maggiore of the northern household on 6 January 1820. He supervised new copies of the Statuto domestico Nostrini and maintained the household correspondence used by Vittorio. He was also responsible for the family's succession papers. Nostrini retired from daily archive work on 1 April 1854.

Personal life and death

Nostrini lived mainly at the Casa di San Michele. On 16 February 1815, he married Teresa Bellandi, the daughter of Carlo Bellandi and Maddalena Sorbo, at the Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo in Aversa. He died at the Casa di San Michele on 20 February 1858, aged 73.

See also

• Convocazione Settentrionale della Famiglia Nostrini
• Atto della Convocazione
• Statuto domestico Nostrini
• Memoria familiare della Convocazione Settentrionale della Famiglia Nostrini
• Teresa Bellandi
• Carlo Bellandi
• Noord family