Fonti per la storia degli archivi degli antichi Stati italiani (Rome: Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo, 2016), vol. 49 of the ‘Fonti’ (Sources) series of the Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di Stato, edited with Andrea Guidi and Alessandro Silvestri

Abstract

A collection of 330 documents on the history of Italian archives, 1200-1800. The collection is prefaced by a general introduction and the documents are divided into six thematic chapters: the politics of archives; the organisation and arrangement of archives; the material culture of archives; the social history of archivists; the uses of archives; and pre-modern scholarly research in archives. Each chapter is prefaced by an introduction and each document is edited, introduced and annotated with extensive references. The case studies include: the Republic of Venice, the Duchy of Milan, the Duchy of Ferrara-Modena, the Republic of Florence and the Duchy of Tuscany, the papacy, the Kingdom of Naples, the Kingdom of Sicily