Reggio Emilia State Archives

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Archivio di Stato Reggio Emilia
State Archives Reggio Emilia

Archive type State Archives
place Reggio nell'Emilia
founding 1887/1892
carrier MiBACT
Website Archivio di Stato Reggio Emilia

The State Archives Reggio Emilia (Archivio di Stato Reggio Emilia) is located on Corso Cairoli in Reggio nell'Emilia in northern Italy and is one of the leading archives in the region. The director is Paola Meschini.

History, stocks

In 1887 an archivio generale provinciale was set up in Reggio Emilia , which was responsible for the province. In 1892 it was converted into a state archive.

One of the oldest holdings is the archivio storico comunale , the historical city archive, whose holdings go back to the High Middle Ages, when the municipalities of Northern Italy gained their freedoms. The holdings are therefore of great continuity and last until the dissolution of the Ancien Régime .

The documents relating to the local government's foreign policy date back to 882. The most important pieces include the Liber Grossus Antiquus or Liber Pax Constantiae (12th century - 1352) with copies of documents from 962.

The so-called Carteggio del Reggimento , i.e. the authority that represented the rule of the Signor in Reggio Emilia, who had his own governatore , goes back to 1372 and thus to the time of the Visconti . The Carteggio also spans the rule of the Estonians until 1796. The Atti di Protocollo Generale , which cover the period up to 1897, follow suit . The State Archives also hold the archives of the municipalities of Scandiano (1429–1893), Brescello (1503–1902) and Carpineti (1807 - 20th century).

Also of great continuity, from 1271 to 1946, are the various legal institutions of the city and the ducat, such as the Tribunale civile , the Corte di giustizia civile e criminale and the Napoleonic courts of justice, the Tribunale di giustizia and the Giusdicenze della Restaurazione , up to and including to today's courts of law. The same applies to political institutions.

The notary archives began as early as 1365 (up to the 19th century), while the financial archives didn't begin until 1783, and these documents cover from 1704 to 1985.

The funds of the artisan corporations offer the statutes of almost all guilds , with those of the Arte della lana e del panno going back to 1390, those of the notaries even back to 1274. The archives of the church institutions, but also the pious foundations, the auxiliary institutions and the hospitals are among the most important holdings. The oldest of these institutions is the Istituto dei SS. Pietro e Matteo e Opera pia Calcagni (1198–1960). The dissolved institutes have also given their holdings to the State Archives, such as the monasteries of S. Tommaso (943–1783) or SS. Pietro e Prospero, whose archive contains a copied document from 594, and whose oldest original is a parchment deed of donation from 806.

Family archives, such as those of the Cassoli-Guastavillani (1063 - 19th century) or the Malaguzzi-Valeri (1325 - 19th century), the family of Daria, the mother of Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) , also go far back. .

The archive of the city's Jewish community begins in 1413 when Jews were brought into the commune to run banks there. The fund ends in 1875.

Library

The library of the house can be traced back to two private donations, namely the donation from the Malaguzzi-Valeri family, as well as the holdings that the commune bought in 1918 from the heirs of Alberto Catellani, a collector and local historian who also directed the state archive at the end of the 19th century like Ippolito Malaguzzi-Valeri a few years earlier. Luciana Bonilauri published a catalog of these holdings in 1993, which included works from the 16th century, but also local manuscripts, periodicals and a small collection of prints that were of considerable importance for local history from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

The catalog has a total of 18,000 entries, most of which are historical works as well as those of the neighboring sciences such as palaeography , diplomatics , sphragistics and vexillology , archival studies and donations from former users of the archive.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Luciana Bonilauri (ed.): I fondi Malaguzzi-Valeri e Catellani. Reggio Emilia 1993.