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In the course of 2020-2023, the Centro Studi Piemontesi renewed its commitment to the preservation and promotion of the memory of the history and culture of Piedmont and the ancient Savoy States, both through the targeted purchase of a number of documentary sources available on the antiquarian market, and through the donation of various private documentary collections, accepted with the commitment of taking care of their reorganization, inventorying and utilization. Among the purchases are two letters written by Count Gian Francesco Galeani Napione di Cocconato (1748- 1830) in 1807 and the Catalogo de’ Cavalieri dell’Ordine della Santissima Annunziata drawn up by Giovanni Toja in 1779. The donations include: the valuable series of diplomatic honours given by the heirs of Manlio Brosio (1897-1980), linked to his activities as a minister in the Bonomi, Parri and De Gasperi governments, as an Italian diplomat and as Secretary General of NATO from 1 August 1964 to 1 October 1971; the documentary fonds on journalist and academic Francesco Pastonchi (1874-1953), donated by Count Piero Gondolo della Riva; the war and captivity diary written by Alessandro Forchino during his time as a fighter in World War I, donated by his daughter Gabriella and published by Centro Studi Piemontesi; and the documentary fund on the Vitelli and Losa families, of particular interest for the industrial history of Piedmont. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on papers that was reported to the government agency Direzione generale Archivi of Italy published by Glauco Buffarini Guidi in 1970. Topics discussed include reorganization of the archive of Italian explorer Lidio Cipriani, endocrinologist Nicola Pende's private papers and the autographed manuscripts of different authors.

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This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on methods and tools for the preservation and management of architectural heritage, and presents the Conservation Management Plan (CMP) developed between 2018 and 2020 for the National Schools of Arts of Havana. The authors focus on the GIS based tools created to manage information collected by the different work groups who contributed to the drafting of the Plan. The outcome is an articulated and flexible system which aims to describe the complexity of the schools, as well as to actively involve interested actors in order to share cultural values, operational needs and priorities of intervention. Indeed, the objective of a CMP is to clarify the significance of a place, and define in which ways such significance will be maintained in future transformations. The GIS developed for the National Art Schools enabled to archive, systematize, and analyze data according to the double-scale approach which characterized the entire research (the territorial and the architectural one), thus becoming an essential tool for the implementation of the CMP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper proposes a reflection on some aspects of the life and the language of Formicola, a small rural community of the province of Caserta, in northern Campania. The reflection stems from the analysis of the ethnographic and linguistic notes taken by Gerhard Rohlfs in Formicola, during the fieldwork carried out for the Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz in 1925. The consultation of this archive material (including photographs and drawings) allows to get some useful information both on the theoretical approach to linguistic investigation applied by the German researcher and on his adventure as fieldworker in rural communities of southern Italy. In addition, these notes offer the occasion to reflect on some Italian and dialectal lexical items. In fact, the paper contains an examination of the locution a staglio (‘paid by the unit’), emerged in Formicola during Rohlfs’ investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sources often speak of the world of women in an indirect, cross-cutting way, since over the centuries women have played social, legal, economic and cultural roles that are not always evident. Only in a few cases can gender studies boast of archives and libraries of exclusively female provenance: even with reference to recent periods, their number is small, either because of conservative conduct anchored in outdated historiographical hierarchies or as a result of women's lesser aptitude for documenting their existence and their role in society, expressing a difficulty in considering themselves as agent subjects in history. It is precisely on this side that the organization of the cycle Profiles of Women among Papers and Books was oriented, with which the aim was to illustrate to a wide audience the lives of some female figures and institutions that represent, or have represented, at several levels’ Italian society and culture through the cognitive lens of their papers and books.

Starting from the bibliography of the volume Eminescu o dell'Assoluto and using Rosa Del Conte's papers conserved in her Archive (Milano), I will reconstruct the main lines of study followed by the philologist, evoking the main features that link the study published by Rosa Del Conte to the Eminescology school of Cluj, determining the genesis of her research and the methodology adopted by the scholar in recovering an originality that is first and foremost a legacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The history of the hospital runs by the confraternity of S. Giovanni Battista, the most emblematic institution of the Genoese community in papal Rome, has not been fully detailed, primarily due to difficulties in accessing the scarce archive resources available. The hospital, however, is a chapter of the broader history of the social, cultural, political, and financial exchanges between Genoa and the papacy, in the context of that “Genoese Rome” which is still, overall, poorly documented. The hospital was founded in the early sixteenth century to assist the Genoese seamen who landed at the Rome port of Ripa Grande, continuing operating until 1704, even with some shady crisis in the decades leading up to the mid-seventeenth century. Specifically, this paper analyses that crisis thanks to the dispatches exchanged by the government of the Republic and its emissaries at the papal court. It seems that S. Giovanni Battista greatly strayed from the eminent standards set by the Genoese administration, representing a charitable institution (largely subsidized by means of bequeaths) the efficiency of which was disputed by the Genoese philosopher and political theorist Andrea Spinola (1562-1631). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyses data archiving procedures carried out during emergency archaeological excavations. It proposes a model for developing an information system capable of streamlining both the survey practices and the management of the excavation site. The opportunity to digitally acquire what emerged during an archaeological campaign as well as ordering data stemming from the stratigraphic analysis in a single digital database has offered us the possibility to discuss the cataloguing systems used in emergency situations. This drove us to experiment with novel application protocols for digitally recording archaeological evidence. The aim of this research is to reduce the loss of information and create dynamic archives for knowledge. Archaeologists can fill in this digital result with their considerations and hypotheses, as well as creating a study platform directly accessible during the phase of excavation, thus combining 3D digital surveys with archiving systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This aim of the present paper is to reconstruct the history of Hungarian-Napolitan relations in the period (1474-1476) preceding the marriage (1476) between Matthias Corvinus (1443-1490) and Beatrice of Naples (1457-1508), and the negotiations leading to the marriage contract and the dowry agreement, on the basis of newly discovered sources in Spanish archives. One set of sources is preserved in the so-called mixed Valencian origin (Varios de Valencia) documents in the "Órdenes Militares" section of the Archivo Histórico Nacional de Madrid, and the other set of documents is in the series of Patronato Real of the Archivo General de Simancas. These sources were previously published in two issues of Történelmi Szemle (review of the Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities: 'Unpublished Charters from the Legacy of Beatrice of Naples', Történelmi Szemle 59, 2017: 491-523, and 'The Dowry of Queen Beatrix of Aragon: New Sources about the Neapolitan Connections of King Matthias Corvinus (1474-1476)', Történelmi Szemle 63, 2021: 605-630). The newly discovered sources allow us to clarify the chronology and composition of the Neapolitan envoys' visits between 1474 and 1476, in other words, to reconstruct in detail the history of the negotiations that led to the alliance between King Matthias Corvin and Ferdinand I of Naples and the dynastic relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Giovanni Maria Parenti was a learned cleric, poet and grammarian from Modena who wrote a biography of the city's patron saint, St Geminianus, printed in 1495. It is less well known that he also participated in a mission, sent to Hungary by Duke Ercole I d'Este in 1486 headed by the orator Cesare Valentini. Parenti compiled a diary on their journey from Venice to the Hungarian royal court. The twelve-page manuscript is preserved in the State Archives in Modena. The text is not a simple list of places seen, but a lively and eventful account in which anecdotes, praise and sometimes even sharp criticism of the circumstances observed appear. This paper deals with the content of the document, the historical context, and makes an edition of the original text. The final table collects those Valentini letters that are written by Parenti's hand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla, personal surgeon of the Emperor Joseph II and Protosurgeon of Hapsburg Army, worked for several years on the drafting of an unfinished work dedicated to the Italians who made important contributions to the development of medicine and surgery. Among his papers preserved in the historical civic archive of Pavia there is an unpublished profile of Giovanni Battista Morgagni whom Brambilla met personally. The deep admiration shown in the text - here fully transcribed - by the imperial surgeon offers evidence of the consideration that Morgagni's work enjoyed among contemporary scholars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes a reconstruction of the Academic and interpersonal relationship between Ernesto Monaci and Gaston Paris, through the analysis of several autograph papers preserved in Monaci's private archives. It is a speech given by Monaci to his students two days after the death of Paris and was therefore developed as a commemoration in his honour. The examination of this autograph, characterized by an original empathetic component, absent in the obituary published in the Nuova Antologia, has made it possible - also thanks to the correspondence between the two philologists and other scattered notes by Monaci - to focus on both the exemplifying episodes of mutual professional esteem, as well as on the clues that would testify to their friendship. In retracing the evolution of this relationship, the essay also attempts to perform an embryonic reconstruction of the main occasions for meeting between Ernesto Monaci and Gaston Paris, as well as the probable contacts that the two had several months before the passing of the French philologist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper were exhibited the first results of the census that in 2016-2017 involved the archives of the Puglia sections of the National Association of Fighters and Veterans, a project promoted by ANAI Puglia on the occasion of the celebrations of the Centenary of the First World War. The work aims to reconstitute, even if only virtually, the original structure of the paper archives and the book, photographic, iconographic and war memorabilia of the ANCR and highlight the current role of associations as centers of documentation and memory retention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In Italy, spas boast a centuries-old tradition, yet it is only in relatively recent times that they have been organised and structured as true spa enterprises. Enterprises with production axes differentiated over time, which flank the well-being of the body with recreational activities for the spirit and which are building an accurate infrastructural network. Witnesses to this union, which has changed over time, are the papers produced by the public or private spa organisations themselves. These are complex archives, still to be studied and explored in depth, but which present peculiar characteristics and broad polysemies. They are treasure troves of memories that contain papers intrinsically connected to book and museum collections: in some cases, true hydrological libraries are born and preserved within the establishment. The documentary sedimentation of Montecatini Terme will offer, in this sense, an interesting and unique case study to observe the peculiarities of these collections from the inside. The contribution briefly traces an institutional historical analysis of thermalism and, starting from the reference context, aims to thoroughly investigate the connections existing between these archives and libraries.

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The digitization project Giving a new voice to sources. Communicate humanistic research for all aims to make available to the scientific community the audio archive of the Bruno Kessler Foundation's Library, which preserves the recordings of the conference activities of the two humanistic research centers of the Foundation. The project represents, at least in Italy, one of the first attempts to realize a virtual space devoted to audio archival sources researchable freely online to avoid the deterioration of a cultural heritage of extremely scientific relevance, leading to its conservation and availability. The deterioration of the analogue media of the archival collection makes the digitization a matter of survival which allows a diffusion otherwise unthinkable. The accessibility to the audio archival sources allows for enlarging the number of scholars and students that can benefit from the collection for the research. It also allows general users to approach the cultural contents of the humanities. The paper aims to describe the goals, the phases of realization of the project, the methodological problems due to the critical issues of the material supports, the descriptive analysis of the contents, and the opening of the database. The first part of the essay describes the history of the audio archive of the library. This archive covers an extensive period from 1974 to the new Millennium and is composed of the reels and compact audio cassette. The second part analyses the phases of work of the project, from the preliminary analysis of the support to the conversion and the digital reworking. The last part is dedicated to the method adopted in the compilation of metadata of the files and to the description of the structure of the database, as well as his research functions and the descriptive scheme of each audio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper traces the history, including legislation, of the libraries of the State archives, born, often thanks to the will and tenacity of the directors who, through a capillary correspondence network with the cultural institutions of the national territory, fleshed out the newly erected libraries with volumes as a gift or obtained through exchanges of book doubles. The purchase on the antiquarian market and from private citizens of single volumes but also of entire book collections, important for reconstructing the history - including literary history - of the territory of competence, makes these libraries unique in their kind. Established for the updating of archivist officials and to allow them to study, reorganize and inventory documentary collections, over time they have changed their mission by expanding the audience of consultation to external users but only if they are unable to find publications in other libraries. To date, despite boasting a library heritage of a certain importance and often unique, they are managed in the absence of personnel in the role of librarian with all the problems that this entails in terms of cataloguing, planning of purchases and assistance for bibliographic research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to complete the analysis of the onomastic system in Giuliano Scabia's four novels based on the character and the adventures of Nane Oca, focusing on documents found in the author's archive. The onomastic practice of the author is deeply connected with his conception of language as a repository of stories: names are traces that refer to the childhood of the author and to the agricultural culture of the Veneto region, with its myths, its specific vocabulary, its characters. Particular attention is paid to those names which do not appear in the printed edition, but are well documented in the archive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The right to protection of confidentiality, involving any person mentioned in the documentation, is of great importance. The paper aims to outline the state of the art and to evaluate possible solutions for new improvements. The relationship between the rights of scientific research, the free expression of thought and the right to privacy of personal information are analyzed in legal terms, under Italian legislation, and in technological, just about the use of the technologies of the digital reproduction of documents, with particular attention to the concepts of communication and dissemination of personal data. The paper shows that the existing regulation framework fully meets the needs of protection of privacy, including in relation to technological changes taking place. Finally, it proposes strengthening instruments like the statement of informed consent and the elaboration of specific policies to ensure the highest possible protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems offer a new paradigm for querying and retrieving information, making the resource recovery processes more efficient and accurate due to their ability to learn and generate responses based on vast knowledge databases. This paper aims to demonstrate these systems in a simplified form to initiate a scientific discussion on the possibility of integrating these technologies into archival and bibliographic resource retrieval systems, and more broadly, into cultural heritage management.

The Singapore Pavilion, set up as part of the 59th edition of the Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, hosts the work of artist Shubigi Rao, a threefold multidisciplinary installation comprising a book, a video and a paper maze built around the theme of books destruction. They are part of a decade-long project under the title Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book. Starting in 2014, it has brought the artist to visit archives and libraries all around the world and to meet women and men who daily dedicate themselves to defending books and cultures on the margins. Here we present the works exhibited in Venice (2022) and the three books that have already been published (2016, 2018, 2022) out of the five scheduled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the limited overview of the Italian artist-run spaces in the 1970s, those promoted between 1969 and 1996 in Milan by Ugo Carrega (1935-2014) are of particular importance in the context of the verbo-visual arts: the Centro Suolo (1969-1970), the Centro Tool (1971-1973), the Mercato del Sale (1974-1991) and the Euforia costante (1993-1996). These galleries also worked as gathering places for culture, alternative networks, experimentation and publishing laboratories. Their artistic vivacity counterbalanced the limits imposed by almost nonexistent budget. By analysing several partitions from the Ugo Carrega archive, now mostly gathered at the Mart in Rovereto, this essay traces the events of those spaces. The archives is divided into four distinct groups: the Fraccaro-Carrega archive, the Archivio di Nuova Scrittura archive, the Ugo Carrega papers and the Dario Viva papers. Despite this partition and the peculiar fragmentation of the personal archives, the preserved documentation is particularly effective in narrating the creativity of the galleries linked to verbo-visual arts, through a plurality of documentary sources, such as photographs, correspondence, writings, printed material and administrative documents, but also artworks. Sometimes even whole ̶ but ephemeral ̶ exhibitions, these also preserved among the artist's papers.

Finally, in 2024, a unique tool for consulting the Calamandrei archives sees the light of day, thanks to the digitization of the fonds held at institutions and foundations located in Florence, Rome, Trento and Montepulciano. For the time being, the correspondences, but the project Kaleodoscope of papers, launched in 2009, continues on the entire documentary heritage, allowing valuable cross-fertilization to scholars and full accessibility to the public.

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An introduction is presented in which editor discusses various articles within the issue on topics including Italian and Russian archival documentation; papers of Nitti e of Italian diplomatic sources and how contacts between Russia and Italy they also extended to the government.

In spite of the huge amount of studies and researches focused on the dogana della mena delle pecore di Foggia, the custom house that managed the transhumance from Abruzzi to Apulia between the fifteenth and the nineteenth century, few scholars have accurately turned their attention to the varied typology of written records released by kings, viceroys and officials in Naples and Foggia in order to administrate and reform one of the most important and profitable institutions of the kingdom. This paper closely considers the surviving documentation from the Magnanimous reorganization of the dogana (forties of the fifteenth century) to the reintegra (cadastral inquiry) carried on roughly one hundred years later (1548- 1555), throwing new light on the intricate process of drafting and archiving records in Foggia and Naples and, in general, on the functioning of the dogana during its first century of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Outstanding scholar, known for his contributions to engineering, statics and the mathematical theory of elasticity, Gustavo Colonnetti was relieved of his duties as the rector of the Turin Polytechnic in 1925, as he was openly antifascist. Because of his refusal to connive with the regime, he was forced to leave Turin and went in exile to Switzerland in the autumn of 1943. Here, he created six university camps for interned military students in Fribourg, Geneva, Huttwil, Lausanne, Mürren and Neuchâtel. This paper illustrates the little-known history of the "Italian University in exile", with particular reference to the Great Italian University Camp in Lausanne, by looking at unpublished sources preserved in various Italian and Swiss archives. It's a beautiful story of solidarity and hope, a cultural and human experience of extraordinary intensity, aimed at re-educating thousands of young people to study and free thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The widespread use of social media in people's everyday life has set the basis for big changes in the relationships between individuals, public and private bodies on a global scale. With public administrations willing to adjust their identities to new tools for communication, archival organizations approached to social networks to connect with new users and enhance their heritage. This paper aims to define methods, specificities and limits of the Italian archival institutions' social media policies, opening up to a first comparison with other national strategies, especially with the French one. A special focus has been put on the role of social networks in March and April 2020, when Italian archives faced a two-month lockdown following the health emergency caused by the spread of COVID-19: moved away from the ordinary work, archivists and archival institutes were encouraged to start alternative forms of communication with their users, including a more effective social campaign. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper conjectures that standard archival descriptions are no longer efficient in order to answer to society needs, mainly in an intercultural perspective. After a brief evaluation of the peculiarities of cultural heritage different domain languages, the specific issues of archival descriptions are discussed, seeking the possible strategies - technological as well as cultural - valid to open to an integration of descriptive languages. A particular focus is proposed on RDA, an approach which shows to be the best candidate to harmonize the separate descriptions typical of archival domain and activating the potential informative integrations with any limitation of information environments and single content quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes a synthesis and a reflection on the topics addressed during the conference "The other side of publishing: the women of books and reading in the 20th century", organized by the Apice Center, with the collaboration of the Department of Historical studies of the University of Milan and the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation. On this occasion it was intended to shed light on the women's role in the publishing during the 20th century, especially on those figures who, often without leaving any apparent trace, as editors, illustrators, translators and librarians, played a far from secondary role in discovering authors, in promoting works, in curating collections and disseminating good practices, such as reading. The conference days, organized in five sessions, were divided by themes: "Editorial work"; "In the workshop of translators"; "Promoting reading"; "Drawing the book", and "Female militancy". The event was characterized by the heterogeneity and the multidisciplinary approach of the young researchers involved, who were able to let communicate different skills, related to gender studies, literary, artistic and historical, preferring, from the point of view of the method, the exploitation of archive sources, the identification of new types of documents and the experimentation of new working tools, like digital databases. This strategy led to the articulation of an intense program, full of insights and discussion, branched out from the main topics identified, such as the importance of memory, the autobiographical writings, the ongoing transformation of editorial work and the ability of women to create strong institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study, starting from the representations of a number of projects kept in Palermo in public and private archives, seeks to highlight their role not only in the knowledge of little-known architecture, but above all their value as custodians of memory and bearers of knowledge. “The architecture in the drawer”, that which remains on paper and not debased by compromises, not only takes on a “material” value but above all an ethical value because making visible the thought and operative practice of an architectural scholar is a moral act.Analytical and critical redesign, in this sense, contributes with its natural slowness, which is synonymous with reflection, to nourishing knowledge of the project, of making architecture, of compositional and figurative processes and, last but not least, of the constituent principles of an architectural thought.Through the analysis of a number of drawings preserved in two archives containing projects by Salvatore Caronia Roberti and Salvatore Cardella, the aim is to show part of the points of a timeline, in this case coinciding, describing themes and modes of architecture making in Palermo, with the awareness that many significant passages are left out.Thus a drawing of a timeline, open and welcoming, which however identifies two substantial points in its development; two graphical stages that may constitute further reflections that assist architectural historiography and above all the knowledge of what has often been relegated to an unknown fate.DOI: https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.31.2023.9

The Biblioteca Universitaria di Cagliari archive, formerly the subject of census activities, is now only partially ordered and lacking in finding aids. By examining the regulations that affected the Library from its promotion (1764) to the adoption of the Regulations for Government Public Libraries (1885), examining the administrative correspondence (1870-1955) and studying the classification and preservation practices adopted during the 19th century, this paper aims to contribute to the study of the archival history of the institution in order to foster future activities of reorganization and description of the Library’s documentary heritage.

The paper presents new documents on brothers Giorgio Domenico and Giuseppe Andrea Duprà, court painters in 18th century Turin. The study is the result of a thorough archival research carried out on the archives of Insinuazione di Torino and the religious archives of the city. The main focus is the Savoyard origin of the Duprà family as well as the complex network of artistic, economic and family relations of these two great painters. Finally, a new sacred work by Giuseppe Andrea Duprà ispresented, a milestone in the evolution of religious painting in Turin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]