State Archives of Naples
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The State Archives of Naples (
Church of Saints Severino and Sossio
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Destruction during World War II
When Italy entered
San Paolo Belsito. The historian Riccardo Filangieri, superintendent of the archives from 1934 to 1956, supervised the transfer of 30,000 volumes and 50,000 parchments in 866 cases. The less valuable contents were left in Naples.[2]
Following
Staufer dynasty that had ruled southern Italy in 1194–1268, but he was ignored. Only eleven cases of notarial documents and 97 cartons of the Farnese Archives were saved.[2]
Among the documents lost were the Order of Malta.[2] Filangieri devoted the entire final part of his life to reconstructing, from various incomplete sources, the contents of the wealth of documents that had been destroyed, editing the first volumes of the Registri della Cancelleria Angioina published by the Accademia Pontaniana.
See also
References
- Fonseca Pimentel nella rivoluzione napoletana, Rizzoli, 1993, p. 144.
- ^ a b c Riccardo Filangieri, "Report on the Destruction by the Germans, September 30, 1943, of the Depository of Priceless Historical Records of the Naples State Archives", The American Archivist, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Oct., 1944), pp. 252–55.
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