State Archives of Naples

The cloisters of the Church of Saints Severino and Sossio

The State Archives of Naples (Italian: Archivio di Stato di Napoli), with its more than 50,000 linear meters of book and document shelving,[1] is of fundamental importance for the history of southern Italy from the 10th century to today.

The archives are housed in the cloisters of the Church of Saints Severino and Sossio.

Reconstruction of lost documents

The historian Riccardo Filangieri, who was the first superintendent of the Neapolitan provinces from 1940 to 1952 and then director of the State Archives of Naples, devoted his entire final part of his life to reconstructing, from various incomplete sources, the contents of the wealth of documents that had been destroyed during World War II (including the diplomatic history of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the archives of the property of the great feudal families of the Kingdom of Naples, and the pre-unification judicial pronouncements from the whole of southern Italy), editing the first volumes of the Registri della Cancelleria Angioina published by the Accademia Pontaniana.

References

  1. ↑ Maria Antonietta Macciocchi, Cara Eleonora: passione e morte della Fonseca Pimentel nella rivoluzione napoletana, Rizzoli, 1993, p. 144.

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Coordinates: 40°50′54″N 14°15′32″E / 40.8484°N 14.2588°E / 40.8484; 14.2588

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