Key archival units for Pirro's mother and caregivers

Fonds: Regi Spedali e ospizi di Lucca, Archivio di Stato di Lucca (ASLu). SAN inventory 1623 (inventario sommario, M. Molitierno, 2021).

Priority	Unit	SAN ID	Provisional shelfmark	Series	Description (from the inventory)	What it can answer
1	“Occulte dal 1879 al 1909”	1415346 — https://inventari-san.cultura.gov.it/inventari/1623/ca/1415346	4318	“Madri occulte e nutrici”	“Registro delle occulte con dati personali e esito del parto”: a register of women who gave birth in secret, with their personal details and the outcome of each birth	Who his mother was: the entry for a confidential birth on 11 Mar 1901 at ~01:00 (night), male, baby given to the brefotrofio and named Pirro Gagliardi (birth act Lucca 1901 n. 388, registered 14 Mar 1901 by Carlo Celli)
2	“Registro dei ricoverati nel Brefotrofio (1894–1918)”	1414951 — https://inventari-san.cultura.gov.it/inventari/1623/ca/1414951	4326	(brefotrofio)	admissions register of the foundling home	His matricola number and admission date. Usually also gives his wet nurse/foster carer (name, village), returns to the home, and discharge
3	other units in the series “Madri occulte e nutrici”	(find in the tree next to 1415346)	near 4318		wet-nurse registers (nutrici/balie), payments	who nursed and raised him, probably in or near Gello (San Giuliano Terme)

Found by the family on 2026-10-17 (they reached the site; it is geo-blocked from this machine).

Cross-reference plan

In 4318, look for confidential births on 10–12 March 1901. Expected entries in the same weeks: Pirro (b. 11 Mar, M), Messalina Veliti (b. 12 Mar, F), Amarillide G. (b. 14 Mar, F), Consalvo S. (b. 17 Mar, M), Galeno M. (b. 2 Mar). Matching the sequence identifies Pirro’s line even if the child’s name was not written in.
Note the mother’s name, age, place of origin, marital status and occupation, and whether she later acknowledged him (riconoscimento) or came back for him.
In 4326, find Pirro’s admission (on or after 11 Mar 1901) and matricola. Use it to search the wet-nurse/payment registers and the segnali (tokens) box for 1901.
Follow the placement to Gello / San Giuliano Terme, then check the San Giuliano Terme population register and 1911 census for that household.

These are over 100 years old, so open to consultation (D.Lgs. 42/2004 art. 122, 100-year limit for health/foundling records counted from the event).
Not digitized online as far as we know. Options: (a) ASLu research-by-correspondence (photos of the pages); (b) a local researcher in Lucca; (c) visit (Via dei Pubblici Macelli 155 branch Thu–Fri / Piazza Guidiccioni 8; booking required, as-lu@cultura.gov.it, +39 0583 491465).

Please save these pages (Ctrl+S, “Webpage, complete”, or print to PDF) into this folder:

the 4318 unit page (1415346) and its parent series page “Madri occulte e nutrici”, including the list of all its units
the 4326 unit page (1414951) and its parent series
if it works: https://inventari-san.cultura.gov.it/inventari/1623/pdf (the whole inventory)

Source note: 01_italy_lucca/archivio_stato_lucca/inventory_1623/KEY_UNITS_occulte_4318_and_brefotrofio_4326.md