El hospital laico de Sant Ángelo a Nido de Nápoles en la segunda mitad del siglo XV

The preservation of a part of the archive of the lay hospital of Sant'Angelo a Nido kept in the library of the Franciscan convent of S. Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples, has made it possible to examine a unique case of a hospital structure, founded in the capital of the Kingdom of Naples by Cardinal Rinaldo Brancaccio in 1427 in the area of the Seggio of Nido. Compared to other examples surveyed in the wide range of studies concerning Neapolitan charitable institutions, the documentation of Sant'Angelo a Nido has made it possible to highlight certain peculiarities in the organization, management and type of day-to-day care in a city where health care had for years no longer been entrusted solely to religious hospital foundations. The archive includes valuable account books, starting from 1472, and a number of public and private documents.