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Rerum italicarum scriptores ab anno æræ christianæ quingentesimo ad millesimumquingentesimum is a collection of texts which are sources for Italian history from the 6th to the 15th century, compiled in the 18th century by Ludovico Antonio Muratori.
Muratori's work became a landmark in historiographical methodology. He set out to construct a history based on the careful accumulation and sifting of evidence. It was published between 1723 and 1751 in twenty-eight folio volumes by the Milanese Palatine Society with financial support from a number of aristocrats including Filippo Argelati and Carlo Archinto.
Writers on Italian Events
from the five-hundredth year of the Christian era
to the year fifteen-hundred,
the greater part of which is now coming to light
from the codexes
of the Ambrosian, Estense,
and other significant libraries.
Ludovico Antonio Muratori
prefect of the most serene Duke of Modena's library,
collected, organised and expanded with prefaces,
some by himself, others by associates of the
Milanese Palatine Society
from the faithfully copied manuscript codex, and with intense effort diligently corrected, and with various explanations and notes from both ancient and more recent scholars.
Adding
to a more complete work and illustration of a universal history of Italy, new geographical tables, and various lists of the Lombard Kings, Emperors, and other classes of Princes, which the same documents permit to be described, now first published or corrected, not to mention the ancient style of characters and representations of Æneas.
With the most eloquent index.
Having earlier worked in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana where he began to collect details on historic manuscripts, Muratori was employed by the Este family, Dukes of Modena, as librarian and archivist with the special duty of finding useful documents to justify the territorial claims of the family. This research gave Muratori the inspiration to widen this perspective. He developed the efforts made earlier by Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini to establish a systematic approach towards the collection of documents supporting historiography that eventually led to the birth of national histories, such as the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Germany. [1]
Much of the background to Muratori's work remains captured in his daily correspondence. Apostle Zeno , based at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, had first suggested printing a collection manuscripts documenting Italian history, as Heinrich Meibom had started in Germany, "and and others have done the same of those of England, France and Spain". In 1702, he and Muratori shared a list of manuscript codexes they were aware of, but Zeno was eventually appointed to the Imperial Library in Vienna and they made no further progress. The House of Este was connected to the House of Welf in Hannover, and this led to Muratori's collaboration with Gottfried Leibnitz. In 1714, Muratori began a series of visits to various libraries across Italy, furnished with letters of commendation from the Duke of Modena and King George I of Great Britain. [2]
Muratori never left Modena after 1717 and by 1719 he had amassed a collection of mainly manuscript histories ready to be printed in four volumes. He was visited by bookseller and publisher Filippo Argelati from Bologna who took up an invitation to help publish the material.
They had difficulty finding a suitable printer in Modena, and an important factor in choosing a printer was the need to avoid the censorship by the Church or the civil authorities. They considered printing in Geneva, or giving the work to Pieter van der Aa in Leiden, but were concerned about the distances involved and the transmission of the texts. They also approached the authorities in Turin, but they were slow to respond. Argelati traveled to Milan and promoted the work to Count Carlo Archinto, a prominent patron of the arts. Archinto, to raise the necessary funds, formed a society of Milanese noblemen under the name of Società Palatina, each of whom subscribed a considerable sum. Milan was also attractive due to the presence of many source texts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana and its tradition of scholarship. With these means, Argelati was able to start production of the work, which was eventually published in 25 folio volumes (28 parts) between 1723 and 1751 in Milan. Much of the material had previously been transcribed and published, but Muratori was able to access unpublished manuscript codexes in the libraries he was associated with, and to correct earlier transcriptions. Each item was prefaced by a scholarly commentary. [2]
Although Muratori and Argelati had chosen Milan for the production of the work, it did not have a printing industry: there was no-one skilled in engraving or capable of casting the typefaces. The subscribers' funds were used to create a printing works from scratch and Governor Colloredo provided space for the presses within the royal palace. In order to ensure that they remained independent of the Holy Office, they could not source the type from Venice, which was the centre of printing in Italy, so new type was cast with matrices procured from Holland. Argelati was an experienced publisher and promoter, and his skills and self-belief drove the project forward, though not without tension with his colleagues. This was partly due to his poor administration which obscured the true financial commitment of his aristocratic sponsors. By February 1722 a few proof pages had been printed to everyone's satisfaction. Good quality paper had been sourced locally, though it was a challenge to acquire the quantities they needed. A major fire broke out in the palace at the end of 1723 and although they managed to rescue the presses, some of the printed sheets were damaged.
We have lost a great many typefaces, various sheets, and the greatest damage is not being able to print for some time, and meanwhile having to pay the men.
— Argetati to Muratori, 22 Dec 1723
In February 1725 they were still suffering from a shortage of typeface and were able to operate only two of their three presses. Local flooding had also destroyed the paper mill and it took several years to return to full production.
These financial pressures led to calls for the more interesting codexes to be published immediately, but Muratori stuck to his policy of placing them in chronological order and including texts which had already been transcribed and printed by others to create a complete record. His main problem was the delays involved in achieving access to the source materials, but he thought it better to keep to the chronological thread throughout the whole series and accommodate delayed chronicles by adding a second part to some of the volumes. [2]
At the time, Italy was partitioned into many states, some autonomous and others subject to Vienna, Spain, Savoy and the Pope. Not all libraries were allowed to contribute to the project, and even so there was a risk that the manuscripts (or their transcripts) would be stolen or seized by customs officials when in transit. Some sources demanded hefty bonds in case of loss, and in other cases they were transmitted under diplomatic protection. In Milan the project had the sponsorship of the emperor ( Charles VI) and the governor (Hieronymus von Colloredo). Each of the principal supporters eventually had a volume dedicated to them, including the republics of Genoa and Lucca and Venice. Despite entreaties to the authorities in Turin, including the promise of a volume dedicated to the Savoy monarch, access to Istoria di Saluzzo was denied as "the chronicle was written by a pen in those partial times of the ancient margraves of Saluzzo, implacable enemies of the Royal House of Savoy". [2]
The discovery of the printing press has ... been a great impediment, in certain countries, to the truth, which once came out more freely in manuscripts.
— L.A. Muratori, Riflessioni sopra il buon gusto, 1708.
Although Muratori was a deeply religious man and inclined to defer to the ecclesiastical and civil authorities, he also deplored the abuses of censorship. He had earlier experienced problems getting his work published in Venice and had to turn to Paris. (He had been also criticised by the Inquisitor of Modena for dedicating a work to "the heretic King George of England". [note 1]) Some of his collaborators thought that the volumes should be submitted to the Governor and the Holy Office, but Muratori responded that "truth and sincerity are the soul of history" and was diligent in ensuring that nothing had been altered in the printing process. Eutropius' Roman history (Vol. 1) was less than complementary about some of the popes, and after the first two volumes had been released the Roman Curia recommended that they should be banned. Muratori worked patiently behind the scenes with the archbishop and the governor to get the Curia to withdraw the demand. [2]
There was also a debate whether to publish only Latin translations of vernacular texts, and it was agreed to use translations where the vernacular, such as Venetian or Neapolitan, was difficult even for Italians to read.
An important principle for Muratori was that all texts should be reassessed where multiple sources were available, and this included previously published material. Many communities were concerned that their versions might be undermined and give advantage to a competing community, and from time to time the civil authorities had to instruct monastic libraries to cooperate. The work itself was very time-consuming and relied, in the main, on voluntary contributions. [2]
Muratori was well aware that many ancient manuscripts were, in fact, forgeries. Daniel Paperbroch, drafting the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum, set the rules of forensic paleography and Jean Mabillon in De re diplomatica (1681) showed the way through the obscure forest of written sources. Muratori was aware that "no age, no kingdom ever existed in Europe in the past, which could boast of being immune to impostors using the written word". When he personally carried out the work of transcription, collation, and critical edition, he rarely made mistakes, but when he was forced to rely on the collaboration of local scholars and could not scrutinise documents with his own eyes he incurred some errors. He was taken in by certain southern forgers who were keen to protect the reputation of their states and cities. Giovanni Bernardino Tafuri (1695–1760), a well-educated nobleman from Nardò, succeeded in fobbing off Muratori with two outright forgeries, the Ragionamento (Reasoning) of Angelo Tafuri of Nardò and the Chronicon Neritinum. [3]
Muratori's opening preface promises three innovative maps:
Muratori states that the foldout map at the front of Vol. 10 shows "at a glance" Italy under the Lombard and Frankish kings with new provinces and cities having been established, and ancient castles, towns, and cities blotted out. It is known to have been drawn by Gasparo Beretti and is complemented by a dissertatio chorographica about medieval Italy. Beretti's map has room for much detail. It mirrors many moments, rather than just one, of the period it is designed to portray but is rich in information and guidance about the boundaries separating the diverse entities present in early medieval Italy. Lombard and Byzantine duchies are there, along with the eastern and western parts of the Lombard kingdom and the Byzantine Exarchate and south Italian possessions. [4]
Muratori's project to collect, edit and publish key source documents from the Middle Ages in chronological order was copied by other nations.
In Germany, the Monumenta Germaniae Historica was published in Hanover with the first volume appearing in 1826, edited by Georg Heinrich Pertz and subsequently Georg Waitz. It is a comprehensive series of primary sources, both chronicle and archival, covering Northwestern and Central European history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500.
In Britain, the Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages (Latin: Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores), widely known as the Rolls Series, a major collection of British and Irish historical materials and primary sources, was published with government support in 253 volumes between 1858 and 1911.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1723). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 1. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1723). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 1, pars secunda. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1723). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 2. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1726). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 2, pars altera. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1723). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 3. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1723). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 3, pars altera. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1724). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 4. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1724). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 5. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1725). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 6. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1725). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 7. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1726). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 8. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1726). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 9. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1727). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 10. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1727). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 11. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1728). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 12. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1728). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 13. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1729). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 14. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1729). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 15. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1730). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 16. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1730). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 17. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1731). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 18. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1731). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 19. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1731). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 20. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1732). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 21. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1733). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 22. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1733). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 23. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1738). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 24. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
APPENDIX (Works which arrived too late to include in the earlier chronological volumes. [note 65])
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1751). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 25. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
INDEXES
In 1900 a new edition (Rerum italicarum scriptores: Raccolta degli storici italiani dal cinquecento al millecinquecento, ordinata da L. A. Muratori, nuova edizione riveduta ampliata e corretta) was undertaken at the instigation of Giosuè Carducci, and continued by the Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo (Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages – "ISIME") under the direction of Pietro Fedele. It was published by Casa Editrice Scipione Lapi in Città di Castello from 1900 to 1917 (Lapi himself died in 1903) and then by Nicola Zanichelli in Bologna until 1975.
The numbering of the volumes follows the original series, but many volumes extend to multiple parts as they incorporate the original material plus commentaries by the new editors and extensive indexes, glossaries and bibliographies. Sections were released in instalments (it: fascolo), intended to be bound by the purchaser into complete volumes. In consequence, some volumes accessible via the Internet Archive are incomplete or, occasionally, incorrectly collated. The copies in the ISMIE library are most accurate and are available online via Biblioteca europea di informazione e cultura.
For many volumes publication dates are quoted for both the first and latest instalment as the final instalments, with detailed indexes, were often released many years later. In total, 117 volumes were published made up from 398 instalments. Publication terminated in 1975 leaving some volumes incomplete. [92]
Fiorini, Vittorio; Rossi, Giorgio, eds. (1900). Historia miscella di Landolfo Sagace. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 1 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi.
Colombo, Giuseppe & Colombo, Alessandro, eds. (1942). Anonymi Mediolanensis: Libellus de situ civitatis Mediolani, de adventu Barnabe Apostoli et de vitis priorum pontificum Mediolanensium. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 1 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Simeoni, Luigi, ed. (1918). Veronae rythmica descriptio. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 2 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Testi Rasponi, Alessandro, ed. (1924). Codex pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 2 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli. [Incomplete due to the interruption of publication – no indexes.]
Zippel, Giacinto, ed. (1913). Platynae historici: Liber de vita Christi ac omnium pontificum (1–1474). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 3 Part 1a (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1932).
Toni, Diomede, ed. (1907). Il diario romano di Gaspare Pontani, già riferito al "Notaio del Nantiporto" (30 gennaio 1481 – 25 luglio 1492). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 3 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1908).
Zimolo, Giulio C., ed. (1964). Le vite di Pio II, di Giovanni Antonio Campano & Bartolomeo Platina. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 3 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Zippel, Giuseppe, ed. (1904). Le vite di Paolo II di Gaspare da Verona e Michele Canensi. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 3 Part 16 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1911).
Cutolo, Alessandro, ed. (1942). Landulphi senioris: Mediolanensis historiae libri quatuor. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 4 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Pontieri, Ernesto, ed. (1925). De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius, by Gaufredo Malaterra monacho benedictino. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 5 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1928).
Simeoni, Luigi, ed. (1931). Vita Mathildis celeberrimae principis Italiae: carmine scripta a Donizone presbytero qui in Arce Canusina vixitseguono. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 5 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1940).
Castiglioni, Carlo, ed. (1934). Landulphi junioris sive de Sancto Paulo: Historia Mediolanensis: ab anno 1095 usque ad annum 1137. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 5 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Bertoni, Giulio, ed. (1907). Relatio translationis corporis sancti Geminiani (1099–1106). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 6 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Gentile, Michele Lupo, ed. (1930). Bernardo Maragone: Annales Pisani. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 6 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1936).
Zimolo, Giulio, ed. (1937). Boncompagni: Liber de obsidione Ancone (1173). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 6 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Cerasoli, Leone Mattei, ed. (1941). Vitae quatuor priorum abbatum Cavensium; Alferii, Leonis, Petri et Constabilis, by Abbott Hugone of Venusino. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 6 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Garufi, Carlo Alberto, ed. (1909). Romualdi Salernitani: Chronicon (130–1178). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 7 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1935).
Garufi, Carlo Alberto, ed. (1936). Ryccardi de Sancto Germano notarii: Chronica. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 7 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1938).
Bonardi, Antonio, ed. (1905). Rolandini Patavini: Cronica in factis et circa facta Marchie Trivixane ( c. 1200 -1262). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 8 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1908).
Soranzo, Giovanni, ed. (1909). Cronaca di Antonio Godi vicentino: dall'anno 1194 all'anno 1260. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 8 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Botteghi, L.A., ed. (1916). Chronicon Marchiae Tarvisinae et Lombardiae (1207–1270). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 8 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Soranzo, Giovanni, ed. (1913). Gerardi Maurisii: Cronica dominorum Ecelini et Alberici fratrum de Romano (1183–1237). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 6 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1914).
Botteghi, Giovanni, ed. (1921). Nicolai Smeregli Vincentini: Annales civitatis Vincentiae (1200–1312). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 8 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Calligaris, Giuseppe, ed. (1910). Fratris Stephanardi de Vicomercato; Liber de gestis in civitate Mediolani (1–1474). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 9 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1912).
Del Lungo, Isidoro, ed. (1907). Dino Compagni: Cronica di delle cose occorrenti ne' tempi suoi. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 9 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1916).
Casatiglioni, Carlo, ed. (1935). Synodus provincialis Pergami habita a Castono sive Cassono Mediolani archiepiscopo anno 1311. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 9 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Segarizzi, Arnaldo, ed. (1907). Historia fratris Dulcini heresiarche, by an anonymous contemporary; De secta illorum qui se dicunt esse de ordine Apostolorum, by Bernardo Gui. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 9 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Bonazzi, Giuliano, ed. (1902). Chronicon Parmense ab anno 1038 usque ad annum 1338. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 9 Part 9 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi.
Maiocchi, Rodolfo & Quintavalle, Ferruccio, eds. (1903). Anonymi Ticinensis: Liber de laudibus civitatis Ticinensis. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 11 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1906).
Meliconi, Celestino, ed. (1915). De proeliis Tusciae, poema: Fratris Raynerii de Grancis. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 11 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1922). pp. 1–192 (line 1947). [Incomplete – stops at line 1947, no indexes.] Adrasto Barbi, Silvi, ed. (1907). Storie pistoresi (1300–134). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 11 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1927).
Pastorello, Ester, ed. (1940). Andreae Danduli ducis Venetiarum: Chronica per extensum descripta (46–1280). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 12 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1927).
Pastorello, Ester, ed. (1922). Raphayni de Caresinis cancellarii Venetiarum: Chronica (1343–1388). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 12 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Sorbelli, Albano, ed. (1903). Dominici de Gravina notarii: Chronicon de rebus in Apulia gestis (1333–1350). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 12 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1909).
Castiglioni, Carlo, ed. (1938). Gualvanei de la Flamma ordinis praedicatorum: Opusculum de rebus gestis ab Azone, Luchino et Johanne vicecomitibus ab anno 1328 usque ad annum 1342. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 12 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Pagnin, Beniamino, ed. (1941). Guillelmi de Cortusiis: Chronica de novitatibus Padue et Lombardie. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 12 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1975).
Steiner, Carlo, ed. (1915). Conforto da Costoza: Frammenti di Storia vicentina (1371–1387). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 13 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi.
Scaramella, Gino, ed. (1918). Matthei Palmerii: Vita Nicolai Acciaioli. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 13 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1934).
Paladino, Giuseppe, ed. (1921). Bartholomaei de Neocastro: Historia Sicula (1250–1293). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 13 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1922).
Tallone, Armando, ed. (1908). Antonii Astesani: De ejus vita et fortunae varietate, carmen (380–1341). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 14 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1912).
Bini, Arturo & Grazzini, Giovanni, eds. (1918). Cronica dei fatti d'Arezzo, di Ser Bartolomeo di ser Gorello. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1921). [Incomplete – no indexes.]
Bini, Arturo, ed. (1933). Liber inferni Aretii: cronica in terza rima, by Giovanni L. De Bonis. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli. [Incomplete – no indices.] Massera, Aldo Francesco, ed. (1922). Cronache Malatestiane dei secoli XIV e XV (1295–1385 & 1416–1452). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1924). [Incomplete – no prefaces or indexes.]
Bertoni, Giulio & Vicini, Emilio Paolo, eds. (1908). Chronicon Estense, cum additamentis usque ad annum 1478. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1937). pp. 1–192. [Incomplete – "The preface will be published with the appendices".]
Casini, Tommaso, ed. (1917). Chronicon Mutinense: Iohannis de Bazano (1188–1363). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1919). [Incomplete – ends at Appendix 1.]
Fumi, Luigi, ed. (1902). Ephemerides Urbevetanae dal Codice Vaticano Urbinate 1745, I. (1342–1369). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 5 No.1 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1920).
Fumi, Luigi, ed. (1902). Ephemerides Urbevetanae dal Codice Vaticano Urbinate 1745, II. (1482–1514). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 5 No.2 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1920).
Lisini, Alessandro & Iacometti, Fabio, eds. (1931). Cronache senesi. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 6 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1939).
Lisini, Alessandro & Iacometti, Fabio, eds. (1931). Cronache senesi. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 6 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1939). [Incomplete – pp. 945-end, no indexes]
Zaccagnini, Guido, ed. (1908). Sozomeni Pistoriensis presbyteri: Chronicon universale (1411–1455). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 16 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Capasso, Carlo, ed. (1928). Chronicon Bergomense guelpho-ghibellinum: ab anno 1378 usque ad annum 1407. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 16 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1940). [Incomplete – no indexes.]
Massèra, Aldo Francesco, ed. (1912). Marcha di Marco Battagli da Rimini (1212–1354). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 16 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1913).
Cognasso, Francesco, ed. (1925). Petri Azarii: Liber gestorum in Lombardia. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 16 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1939).
Medin, Antonio & Tolomei, Guido, eds. (1909). Galeazzo & Bartolomeo Gatari: Cronaca carrarese, I.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 17 Part 1 No.1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1931).
Cessi, Roberto, ed. (1942). Cronaca carrarese, II., Appendices. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 17 Part 1 No.2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1948). pp. 1–282.
Cessi, Roberto, ed. (1942). Cronaca carrarese, III. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 17 Part 1 No.3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1965).
Balbi, Giovanna Petti, ed. (1975). Georgii et Iohannis Stellae: Annales genuenses. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 17 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Gabotto, Ferdinando, ed. (1911). 'Chronicon parvum Ripaltae, seu, Chronica pedemontana minora. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 17 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi.
Sorbelli, Albano, ed. (1906). Corpus chronicorum Bononiensium: Text of the chronicles I.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 18 Part 1 No.1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1939).
Sorbelli, Albano, ed. (1910). Corpus chronicorum Bononiensium: Text of the chronicles II.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 18 Part 1 No.2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1938). pp. 1–616.
Sorbelli, Albano, ed. (1916). Corpus chronicorum Bononiensium: Text of the chronicles III.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 18 Part 1 No.3 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1939).
Sorbelli, Albano, ed. (1910). Corpus chronicorum Bononiensium: Text of the chronicles IV.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 18 Part 1 No.4 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1938).
Frati, Lodovico; Sorbelli, Albano, eds. (1902). Matthaei de Griffonibus: Memoriale historicum de rebus Bononiensium (4448 BCE-1472). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 18 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi.
Scaramella, Gino, ed. (1917). Il tumulto dei Ciompi, cronache e memorie. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 18 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1934).
Scaramella, Gino, ed. (1914). Matthei Palmerii: De captivitate Pisarum liber. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 19 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi.
Santini, Emilio & Di Pierro, Carmine, eds. (1914). Leonardo Bruni Aretino: Historiarum Florentini populi libri XII; & Rerum suo tempore gestarum, commentarius. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 19 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1926).
Valentini, Roberto, ed. (1929). Braccii Perusini vita et gesta: ab anno 1368 usque ad 1424, auctore Johanne Antonio Campano. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 19 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli. [No indexes.]
Pasini, Adamo, ed. (1931). Chronicon fratris Hieronymi de Forlivio: ab anno 1397 usque ad annum 1433. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 19 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Zonta, Gasparo, ed. (1940). Vita Caroli Zeni, auctore Iacobo Zeno. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 19 Part 6 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1941).
Butti, Attilio; Fossati, Felice & Petraglione, Giuseppe, eds. (1925). Petri Candidi Decembrii: Opuscula historica. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 20 Part 1a (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1958). pp. 1–384.
Simeoni, Luigi, ed. (1920). Fr. Johannis Ferrariensis: Ex annalium libris marchionum Estensium excerpta (0–1454). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 20 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1936).
Soranzo, Giovanni, ed. (1932). Johannis Simonetae: Rerum gestarum Francisci Sfortiae Mediolanensium ducis commentarii. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 21 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1959).
Brizzolara, Giuseppe, ed. (1938). La cronaca di Cristoforo da Soldo. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 21 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1942).
Mazzatinti, Giuseppe, ed. (1902). Cronaca di ser Guerriero da Gubbio (1350–1472). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 21 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1942).
Manfredi, Michele, ed. (1958). I diurnali del Duca di Monteleone. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 21 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Paladino, Giuseppe, ed. (1934). Tristano Caracciolo: Opuscoli storici editi e inediti. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 22 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1935). [No indexes.]
Bonazzi, Giuliano, ed. (1904). Cronica gestorum in partibus Lombardie et reliquis Italie (1476–1482). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 22 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1911).
Monticolo, Giovanni, ed. (1900). Marin Sanudo: Le vite dei dogi. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 22 Part 4 No.1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1911).
Pandiani, Emilio, ed. (1910). Antonii Galli: Commentarii de rebus Genuensium et de navigatione Columbi. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 23 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1911).
Sorbelli, Albano, ed. (1911). Cronica gestorum ac factorum memorabilium civitatis Bononie, edited by Bro. Hyeronimo de Bursellis (from its foundation to 1497); continued by Vincenzo Spargiati (1498–1584). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 23 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1929).
Carusi, Enrico, ed. (1903). Il diario romano di Jacopo Gherardi da Volterra (7 Sep 1479 – 12 Aug 1484). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 23 Part 3a (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1906).
Mannucci, Francesco Luigi, ed. (1913). Antonij Hyvani Sarzanensis: Historia de Volaterrana calamitate. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 23 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Zimolo, Giulio C., ed. (1948). Leodrisii Cribelli: De expeditione Pii papae II adversus Turcos. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 23 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1950).
Bini, Arturo & Grazzini, Giovanni, eds. (1909). Annales Arretinorum maiores et minores [1192–1343]. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1912). [Incomplete.]
Isolde, Francesco, ed. (1910). La mesticanza di Paulo di Lello Petrone. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1912).
Segre, Arturo, ed. (1912). I diarii di Girolamo Priuli (1494–1512), I.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 3 No.1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1921).
Cessi, Roberto, ed. (1933). I diarii di Girolamo Priuli (1499–1512), II.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 3 No.2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1937).
Cessi, Roberto, ed. (1938). I diarii di Girolamo Priuli (1499–1512), IV.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 3 No.4 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1941).
Cessi, Roberto, ed. (1912). Anonymus Valesianus: Fragmenta historica ab Henrico et Hadriano Valesio. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1913).
Isoldi, Francesco, ed. (1916). Il diario romano di Antonio di Pietro dello Schiavo (19 Oct 1404 – 25 Sep 1417)). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1917).
Morghen, Raffaello, ed. (1927). Chronicon Sublacense (593–1369). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 6 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Pardi, Giuseppe, ed. (1928). Autori incerti: Diario ferrarese (1409–1502). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 7 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1933).
Pandiani, Emilio, ed. (1930). Bartholomaei Senaregae: De rebus Genuensibus commentaria (1488–1514). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 8 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1932).
Begani, Orsini, ed. (1908). Antonio Nerli: Breve chronicon monasterii Mantuani sancti Andree ord. Bened. (800–1431). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 13 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1910).
Tambara, Giovanni, ed. (1906). Juliani canonici: Civitatensis chronica (1252–1364). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 14 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Segarizzi, Arnaldo, ed. (1902). Michaelis Savonarole : Libellus de magnificis ornamentis Regie Civitatis Padue. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 15 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Miglierina, Bartolomeo & Castiglioni, Carlo, eds. (1938). Orationes in laudem Francisci, Blancae M., J. G. Sfortiae Vicecomitum. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 25 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Scaramella, Gino, ed. (1906). Matthei Palmerii: Liber de Temporibus (1–1448). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 26 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1915).
Faloci-Pulignani, Michele, ed. (1932). Fragmenta Fulginatis historiae. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 26 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1933).
Volpi, Guglielmo, ed. (1907). Autore anonimo : Ricordi di Firenze (1459). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 27 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Bellondi, Elina, ed. (1915). Cronica volgare di anonimo fiorentino: dall'anno 1385 al 1409, gia attribuita a Piero di Giovanni Minerbetti. Vol. 24 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1919). [Incomplete – no indexes.]
Magherini Graziani, Giovanni, ed. (1922). Roberti Ursi: De obsidione Tiphernatum liber (1474). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 27 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli. [Incomplete – only folios 1–3 in this copy – appendices 2–4 missing.] f.1–3
Rossini, Giuseppe, ed. (1936). Magistri Tolosani: Chronicon Faventinum (20 BC-1236). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 28 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1939).
Torraca, Francesco, ed. (1902). Petri Cantinelli: Chronicon (1228–1306). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 28 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Messeri, Antonio, ed. (1907). Chronica breviora aliaque monumenta faventina a Bernardino Azzurrinio collecta, Vol. 1. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 28 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1921).
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Rerum italicarum scriptores ab anno æræ christianæ quingentesimo ad millesimumquingentesimum is a collection of texts which are sources for Italian history from the 6th to the 15th century, compiled in the 18th century by Ludovico Antonio Muratori.
Muratori's work became a landmark in historiographical methodology. He set out to construct a history based on the careful accumulation and sifting of evidence. It was published between 1723 and 1751 in twenty-eight folio volumes by the Milanese Palatine Society with financial support from a number of aristocrats including Filippo Argelati and Carlo Archinto.
Writers on Italian Events
from the five-hundredth year of the Christian era
to the year fifteen-hundred,
the greater part of which is now coming to light
from the codexes
of the Ambrosian, Estense,
and other significant libraries.
Ludovico Antonio Muratori
prefect of the most serene Duke of Modena's library,
collected, organised and expanded with prefaces,
some by himself, others by associates of the
Milanese Palatine Society
from the faithfully copied manuscript codex, and with intense effort diligently corrected, and with various explanations and notes from both ancient and more recent scholars.
Adding
to a more complete work and illustration of a universal history of Italy, new geographical tables, and various lists of the Lombard Kings, Emperors, and other classes of Princes, which the same documents permit to be described, now first published or corrected, not to mention the ancient style of characters and representations of Æneas.
With the most eloquent index.
Having earlier worked in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana where he began to collect details on historic manuscripts, Muratori was employed by the Este family, Dukes of Modena, as librarian and archivist with the special duty of finding useful documents to justify the territorial claims of the family. This research gave Muratori the inspiration to widen this perspective. He developed the efforts made earlier by Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini to establish a systematic approach towards the collection of documents supporting historiography that eventually led to the birth of national histories, such as the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Germany. [1]
Much of the background to Muratori's work remains captured in his daily correspondence. Apostle Zeno , based at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, had first suggested printing a collection manuscripts documenting Italian history, as Heinrich Meibom had started in Germany, "and and others have done the same of those of England, France and Spain". In 1702, he and Muratori shared a list of manuscript codexes they were aware of, but Zeno was eventually appointed to the Imperial Library in Vienna and they made no further progress. The House of Este was connected to the House of Welf in Hannover, and this led to Muratori's collaboration with Gottfried Leibnitz. In 1714, Muratori began a series of visits to various libraries across Italy, furnished with letters of commendation from the Duke of Modena and King George I of Great Britain. [2]
Muratori never left Modena after 1717 and by 1719 he had amassed a collection of mainly manuscript histories ready to be printed in four volumes. He was visited by bookseller and publisher Filippo Argelati from Bologna who took up an invitation to help publish the material.
They had difficulty finding a suitable printer in Modena, and an important factor in choosing a printer was the need to avoid the censorship by the Church or the civil authorities. They considered printing in Geneva, or giving the work to Pieter van der Aa in Leiden, but were concerned about the distances involved and the transmission of the texts. They also approached the authorities in Turin, but they were slow to respond. Argelati traveled to Milan and promoted the work to Count Carlo Archinto, a prominent patron of the arts. Archinto, to raise the necessary funds, formed a society of Milanese noblemen under the name of Società Palatina, each of whom subscribed a considerable sum. Milan was also attractive due to the presence of many source texts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana and its tradition of scholarship. With these means, Argelati was able to start production of the work, which was eventually published in 25 folio volumes (28 parts) between 1723 and 1751 in Milan. Much of the material had previously been transcribed and published, but Muratori was able to access unpublished manuscript codexes in the libraries he was associated with, and to correct earlier transcriptions. Each item was prefaced by a scholarly commentary. [2]
Although Muratori and Argelati had chosen Milan for the production of the work, it did not have a printing industry: there was no-one skilled in engraving or capable of casting the typefaces. The subscribers' funds were used to create a printing works from scratch and Governor Colloredo provided space for the presses within the royal palace. In order to ensure that they remained independent of the Holy Office, they could not source the type from Venice, which was the centre of printing in Italy, so new type was cast with matrices procured from Holland. Argelati was an experienced publisher and promoter, and his skills and self-belief drove the project forward, though not without tension with his colleagues. This was partly due to his poor administration which obscured the true financial commitment of his aristocratic sponsors. By February 1722 a few proof pages had been printed to everyone's satisfaction. Good quality paper had been sourced locally, though it was a challenge to acquire the quantities they needed. A major fire broke out in the palace at the end of 1723 and although they managed to rescue the presses, some of the printed sheets were damaged.
We have lost a great many typefaces, various sheets, and the greatest damage is not being able to print for some time, and meanwhile having to pay the men.
— Argetati to Muratori, 22 Dec 1723
In February 1725 they were still suffering from a shortage of typeface and were able to operate only two of their three presses. Local flooding had also destroyed the paper mill and it took several years to return to full production.
These financial pressures led to calls for the more interesting codexes to be published immediately, but Muratori stuck to his policy of placing them in chronological order and including texts which had already been transcribed and printed by others to create a complete record. His main problem was the delays involved in achieving access to the source materials, but he thought it better to keep to the chronological thread throughout the whole series and accommodate delayed chronicles by adding a second part to some of the volumes. [2]
At the time, Italy was partitioned into many states, some autonomous and others subject to Vienna, Spain, Savoy and the Pope. Not all libraries were allowed to contribute to the project, and even so there was a risk that the manuscripts (or their transcripts) would be stolen or seized by customs officials when in transit. Some sources demanded hefty bonds in case of loss, and in other cases they were transmitted under diplomatic protection. In Milan the project had the sponsorship of the emperor ( Charles VI) and the governor (Hieronymus von Colloredo). Each of the principal supporters eventually had a volume dedicated to them, including the republics of Genoa and Lucca and Venice. Despite entreaties to the authorities in Turin, including the promise of a volume dedicated to the Savoy monarch, access to Istoria di Saluzzo was denied as "the chronicle was written by a pen in those partial times of the ancient margraves of Saluzzo, implacable enemies of the Royal House of Savoy". [2]
The discovery of the printing press has ... been a great impediment, in certain countries, to the truth, which once came out more freely in manuscripts.
— L.A. Muratori, Riflessioni sopra il buon gusto, 1708.
Although Muratori was a deeply religious man and inclined to defer to the ecclesiastical and civil authorities, he also deplored the abuses of censorship. He had earlier experienced problems getting his work published in Venice and had to turn to Paris. (He had been also criticised by the Inquisitor of Modena for dedicating a work to "the heretic King George of England". [note 1]) Some of his collaborators thought that the volumes should be submitted to the Governor and the Holy Office, but Muratori responded that "truth and sincerity are the soul of history" and was diligent in ensuring that nothing had been altered in the printing process. Eutropius' Roman history (Vol. 1) was less than complementary about some of the popes, and after the first two volumes had been released the Roman Curia recommended that they should be banned. Muratori worked patiently behind the scenes with the archbishop and the governor to get the Curia to withdraw the demand. [2]
There was also a debate whether to publish only Latin translations of vernacular texts, and it was agreed to use translations where the vernacular, such as Venetian or Neapolitan, was difficult even for Italians to read.
An important principle for Muratori was that all texts should be reassessed where multiple sources were available, and this included previously published material. Many communities were concerned that their versions might be undermined and give advantage to a competing community, and from time to time the civil authorities had to instruct monastic libraries to cooperate. The work itself was very time-consuming and relied, in the main, on voluntary contributions. [2]
Muratori was well aware that many ancient manuscripts were, in fact, forgeries. Daniel Paperbroch, drafting the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum, set the rules of forensic paleography and Jean Mabillon in De re diplomatica (1681) showed the way through the obscure forest of written sources. Muratori was aware that "no age, no kingdom ever existed in Europe in the past, which could boast of being immune to impostors using the written word". When he personally carried out the work of transcription, collation, and critical edition, he rarely made mistakes, but when he was forced to rely on the collaboration of local scholars and could not scrutinise documents with his own eyes he incurred some errors. He was taken in by certain southern forgers who were keen to protect the reputation of their states and cities. Giovanni Bernardino Tafuri (1695–1760), a well-educated nobleman from Nardò, succeeded in fobbing off Muratori with two outright forgeries, the Ragionamento (Reasoning) of Angelo Tafuri of Nardò and the Chronicon Neritinum. [3]
Muratori's opening preface promises three innovative maps:
Muratori states that the foldout map at the front of Vol. 10 shows "at a glance" Italy under the Lombard and Frankish kings with new provinces and cities having been established, and ancient castles, towns, and cities blotted out. It is known to have been drawn by Gasparo Beretti and is complemented by a dissertatio chorographica about medieval Italy. Beretti's map has room for much detail. It mirrors many moments, rather than just one, of the period it is designed to portray but is rich in information and guidance about the boundaries separating the diverse entities present in early medieval Italy. Lombard and Byzantine duchies are there, along with the eastern and western parts of the Lombard kingdom and the Byzantine Exarchate and south Italian possessions. [4]
Muratori's project to collect, edit and publish key source documents from the Middle Ages in chronological order was copied by other nations.
In Germany, the Monumenta Germaniae Historica was published in Hanover with the first volume appearing in 1826, edited by Georg Heinrich Pertz and subsequently Georg Waitz. It is a comprehensive series of primary sources, both chronicle and archival, covering Northwestern and Central European history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500.
In Britain, the Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages (Latin: Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores), widely known as the Rolls Series, a major collection of British and Irish historical materials and primary sources, was published with government support in 253 volumes between 1858 and 1911.
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Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1726). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 9. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1727). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 10. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1727). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 11. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1728). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 12. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1728). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 13. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1729). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 14. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1729). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 15. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1730). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 16. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1730). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 17. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1731). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 18. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1731). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 19. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1731). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 20. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1732). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 21. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1733). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 22. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1733). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 23. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1738). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin and Italian). Vol. 24. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
APPENDIX (Works which arrived too late to include in the earlier chronological volumes. [note 65])
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, ed. (1751). Rerum italicarum scriptores (in Latin). Vol. 25. Milan: Societatis Palatinae.
INDEXES
In 1900 a new edition (Rerum italicarum scriptores: Raccolta degli storici italiani dal cinquecento al millecinquecento, ordinata da L. A. Muratori, nuova edizione riveduta ampliata e corretta) was undertaken at the instigation of Giosuè Carducci, and continued by the Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo (Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages – "ISIME") under the direction of Pietro Fedele. It was published by Casa Editrice Scipione Lapi in Città di Castello from 1900 to 1917 (Lapi himself died in 1903) and then by Nicola Zanichelli in Bologna until 1975.
The numbering of the volumes follows the original series, but many volumes extend to multiple parts as they incorporate the original material plus commentaries by the new editors and extensive indexes, glossaries and bibliographies. Sections were released in instalments (it: fascolo), intended to be bound by the purchaser into complete volumes. In consequence, some volumes accessible via the Internet Archive are incomplete or, occasionally, incorrectly collated. The copies in the ISMIE library are most accurate and are available online via Biblioteca europea di informazione e cultura.
For many volumes publication dates are quoted for both the first and latest instalment as the final instalments, with detailed indexes, were often released many years later. In total, 117 volumes were published made up from 398 instalments. Publication terminated in 1975 leaving some volumes incomplete. [92]
Fiorini, Vittorio; Rossi, Giorgio, eds. (1900). Historia miscella di Landolfo Sagace. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 1 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi.
Colombo, Giuseppe & Colombo, Alessandro, eds. (1942). Anonymi Mediolanensis: Libellus de situ civitatis Mediolani, de adventu Barnabe Apostoli et de vitis priorum pontificum Mediolanensium. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 1 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Simeoni, Luigi, ed. (1918). Veronae rythmica descriptio. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 2 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Testi Rasponi, Alessandro, ed. (1924). Codex pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 2 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli. [Incomplete due to the interruption of publication – no indexes.]
Zippel, Giacinto, ed. (1913). Platynae historici: Liber de vita Christi ac omnium pontificum (1–1474). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 3 Part 1a (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1932).
Toni, Diomede, ed. (1907). Il diario romano di Gaspare Pontani, già riferito al "Notaio del Nantiporto" (30 gennaio 1481 – 25 luglio 1492). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 3 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1908).
Zimolo, Giulio C., ed. (1964). Le vite di Pio II, di Giovanni Antonio Campano & Bartolomeo Platina. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 3 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Zippel, Giuseppe, ed. (1904). Le vite di Paolo II di Gaspare da Verona e Michele Canensi. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 3 Part 16 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1911).
Cutolo, Alessandro, ed. (1942). Landulphi senioris: Mediolanensis historiae libri quatuor. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 4 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Pontieri, Ernesto, ed. (1925). De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius, by Gaufredo Malaterra monacho benedictino. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 5 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1928).
Simeoni, Luigi, ed. (1931). Vita Mathildis celeberrimae principis Italiae: carmine scripta a Donizone presbytero qui in Arce Canusina vixitseguono. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 5 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1940).
Castiglioni, Carlo, ed. (1934). Landulphi junioris sive de Sancto Paulo: Historia Mediolanensis: ab anno 1095 usque ad annum 1137. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 5 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Bertoni, Giulio, ed. (1907). Relatio translationis corporis sancti Geminiani (1099–1106). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 6 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Gentile, Michele Lupo, ed. (1930). Bernardo Maragone: Annales Pisani. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 6 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1936).
Zimolo, Giulio, ed. (1937). Boncompagni: Liber de obsidione Ancone (1173). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 6 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Cerasoli, Leone Mattei, ed. (1941). Vitae quatuor priorum abbatum Cavensium; Alferii, Leonis, Petri et Constabilis, by Abbott Hugone of Venusino. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 6 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Garufi, Carlo Alberto, ed. (1909). Romualdi Salernitani: Chronicon (130–1178). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 7 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1935).
Garufi, Carlo Alberto, ed. (1936). Ryccardi de Sancto Germano notarii: Chronica. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 7 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1938).
Bonardi, Antonio, ed. (1905). Rolandini Patavini: Cronica in factis et circa facta Marchie Trivixane ( c. 1200 -1262). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 8 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1908).
Soranzo, Giovanni, ed. (1909). Cronaca di Antonio Godi vicentino: dall'anno 1194 all'anno 1260. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 8 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Botteghi, L.A., ed. (1916). Chronicon Marchiae Tarvisinae et Lombardiae (1207–1270). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 8 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Soranzo, Giovanni, ed. (1913). Gerardi Maurisii: Cronica dominorum Ecelini et Alberici fratrum de Romano (1183–1237). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 6 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1914).
Botteghi, Giovanni, ed. (1921). Nicolai Smeregli Vincentini: Annales civitatis Vincentiae (1200–1312). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 8 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Calligaris, Giuseppe, ed. (1910). Fratris Stephanardi de Vicomercato; Liber de gestis in civitate Mediolani (1–1474). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 9 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1912).
Del Lungo, Isidoro, ed. (1907). Dino Compagni: Cronica di delle cose occorrenti ne' tempi suoi. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 9 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1916).
Casatiglioni, Carlo, ed. (1935). Synodus provincialis Pergami habita a Castono sive Cassono Mediolani archiepiscopo anno 1311. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 9 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Segarizzi, Arnaldo, ed. (1907). Historia fratris Dulcini heresiarche, by an anonymous contemporary; De secta illorum qui se dicunt esse de ordine Apostolorum, by Bernardo Gui. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 9 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Bonazzi, Giuliano, ed. (1902). Chronicon Parmense ab anno 1038 usque ad annum 1338. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 9 Part 9 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi.
Maiocchi, Rodolfo & Quintavalle, Ferruccio, eds. (1903). Anonymi Ticinensis: Liber de laudibus civitatis Ticinensis. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 11 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1906).
Meliconi, Celestino, ed. (1915). De proeliis Tusciae, poema: Fratris Raynerii de Grancis. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 11 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1922). pp. 1–192 (line 1947). [Incomplete – stops at line 1947, no indexes.] Adrasto Barbi, Silvi, ed. (1907). Storie pistoresi (1300–134). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 11 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1927).
Pastorello, Ester, ed. (1940). Andreae Danduli ducis Venetiarum: Chronica per extensum descripta (46–1280). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 12 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1927).
Pastorello, Ester, ed. (1922). Raphayni de Caresinis cancellarii Venetiarum: Chronica (1343–1388). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 12 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Sorbelli, Albano, ed. (1903). Dominici de Gravina notarii: Chronicon de rebus in Apulia gestis (1333–1350). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 12 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1909).
Castiglioni, Carlo, ed. (1938). Gualvanei de la Flamma ordinis praedicatorum: Opusculum de rebus gestis ab Azone, Luchino et Johanne vicecomitibus ab anno 1328 usque ad annum 1342. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 12 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Pagnin, Beniamino, ed. (1941). Guillelmi de Cortusiis: Chronica de novitatibus Padue et Lombardie. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 12 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1975).
Steiner, Carlo, ed. (1915). Conforto da Costoza: Frammenti di Storia vicentina (1371–1387). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 13 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi.
Scaramella, Gino, ed. (1918). Matthei Palmerii: Vita Nicolai Acciaioli. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 13 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1934).
Paladino, Giuseppe, ed. (1921). Bartholomaei de Neocastro: Historia Sicula (1250–1293). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 13 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1922).
Tallone, Armando, ed. (1908). Antonii Astesani: De ejus vita et fortunae varietate, carmen (380–1341). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 14 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1912).
Bini, Arturo & Grazzini, Giovanni, eds. (1918). Cronica dei fatti d'Arezzo, di Ser Bartolomeo di ser Gorello. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1921). [Incomplete – no indexes.]
Bini, Arturo, ed. (1933). Liber inferni Aretii: cronica in terza rima, by Giovanni L. De Bonis. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli. [Incomplete – no indices.] Massera, Aldo Francesco, ed. (1922). Cronache Malatestiane dei secoli XIV e XV (1295–1385 & 1416–1452). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1924). [Incomplete – no prefaces or indexes.]
Bertoni, Giulio & Vicini, Emilio Paolo, eds. (1908). Chronicon Estense, cum additamentis usque ad annum 1478. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1937). pp. 1–192. [Incomplete – "The preface will be published with the appendices".]
Casini, Tommaso, ed. (1917). Chronicon Mutinense: Iohannis de Bazano (1188–1363). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1919). [Incomplete – ends at Appendix 1.]
Fumi, Luigi, ed. (1902). Ephemerides Urbevetanae dal Codice Vaticano Urbinate 1745, I. (1342–1369). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 5 No.1 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1920).
Fumi, Luigi, ed. (1902). Ephemerides Urbevetanae dal Codice Vaticano Urbinate 1745, II. (1482–1514). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 5 No.2 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1920).
Lisini, Alessandro & Iacometti, Fabio, eds. (1931). Cronache senesi. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 6 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1939).
Lisini, Alessandro & Iacometti, Fabio, eds. (1931). Cronache senesi. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 15 Part 6 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1939). [Incomplete – pp. 945-end, no indexes]
Zaccagnini, Guido, ed. (1908). Sozomeni Pistoriensis presbyteri: Chronicon universale (1411–1455). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 16 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Capasso, Carlo, ed. (1928). Chronicon Bergomense guelpho-ghibellinum: ab anno 1378 usque ad annum 1407. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 16 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1940). [Incomplete – no indexes.]
Massèra, Aldo Francesco, ed. (1912). Marcha di Marco Battagli da Rimini (1212–1354). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 16 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1913).
Cognasso, Francesco, ed. (1925). Petri Azarii: Liber gestorum in Lombardia. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 16 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1939).
Medin, Antonio & Tolomei, Guido, eds. (1909). Galeazzo & Bartolomeo Gatari: Cronaca carrarese, I.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 17 Part 1 No.1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1931).
Cessi, Roberto, ed. (1942). Cronaca carrarese, II., Appendices. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 17 Part 1 No.2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1948). pp. 1–282.
Cessi, Roberto, ed. (1942). Cronaca carrarese, III. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 17 Part 1 No.3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1965).
Balbi, Giovanna Petti, ed. (1975). Georgii et Iohannis Stellae: Annales genuenses. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 17 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Gabotto, Ferdinando, ed. (1911). 'Chronicon parvum Ripaltae, seu, Chronica pedemontana minora. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 17 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi.
Sorbelli, Albano, ed. (1906). Corpus chronicorum Bononiensium: Text of the chronicles I.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 18 Part 1 No.1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1939).
Sorbelli, Albano, ed. (1910). Corpus chronicorum Bononiensium: Text of the chronicles II.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 18 Part 1 No.2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1938). pp. 1–616.
Sorbelli, Albano, ed. (1916). Corpus chronicorum Bononiensium: Text of the chronicles III.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 18 Part 1 No.3 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1939).
Sorbelli, Albano, ed. (1910). Corpus chronicorum Bononiensium: Text of the chronicles IV.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 18 Part 1 No.4 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1938).
Frati, Lodovico; Sorbelli, Albano, eds. (1902). Matthaei de Griffonibus: Memoriale historicum de rebus Bononiensium (4448 BCE-1472). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 18 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi.
Scaramella, Gino, ed. (1917). Il tumulto dei Ciompi, cronache e memorie. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 18 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1934).
Scaramella, Gino, ed. (1914). Matthei Palmerii: De captivitate Pisarum liber. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 19 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi.
Santini, Emilio & Di Pierro, Carmine, eds. (1914). Leonardo Bruni Aretino: Historiarum Florentini populi libri XII; & Rerum suo tempore gestarum, commentarius. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 19 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Cità di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1926).
Valentini, Roberto, ed. (1929). Braccii Perusini vita et gesta: ab anno 1368 usque ad 1424, auctore Johanne Antonio Campano. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 19 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli. [No indexes.]
Pasini, Adamo, ed. (1931). Chronicon fratris Hieronymi de Forlivio: ab anno 1397 usque ad annum 1433. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 19 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Zonta, Gasparo, ed. (1940). Vita Caroli Zeni, auctore Iacobo Zeno. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 19 Part 6 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1941).
Butti, Attilio; Fossati, Felice & Petraglione, Giuseppe, eds. (1925). Petri Candidi Decembrii: Opuscula historica. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 20 Part 1a (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1958). pp. 1–384.
Simeoni, Luigi, ed. (1920). Fr. Johannis Ferrariensis: Ex annalium libris marchionum Estensium excerpta (0–1454). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 20 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1936).
Soranzo, Giovanni, ed. (1932). Johannis Simonetae: Rerum gestarum Francisci Sfortiae Mediolanensium ducis commentarii. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 21 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1959).
Brizzolara, Giuseppe, ed. (1938). La cronaca di Cristoforo da Soldo. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 21 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1942).
Mazzatinti, Giuseppe, ed. (1902). Cronaca di ser Guerriero da Gubbio (1350–1472). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 21 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1942).
Manfredi, Michele, ed. (1958). I diurnali del Duca di Monteleone. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 21 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Paladino, Giuseppe, ed. (1934). Tristano Caracciolo: Opuscoli storici editi e inediti. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 22 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1935). [No indexes.]
Bonazzi, Giuliano, ed. (1904). Cronica gestorum in partibus Lombardie et reliquis Italie (1476–1482). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 22 Part 3 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1911).
Monticolo, Giovanni, ed. (1900). Marin Sanudo: Le vite dei dogi. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 22 Part 4 No.1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1911).
Pandiani, Emilio, ed. (1910). Antonii Galli: Commentarii de rebus Genuensium et de navigatione Columbi. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 23 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1911).
Sorbelli, Albano, ed. (1911). Cronica gestorum ac factorum memorabilium civitatis Bononie, edited by Bro. Hyeronimo de Bursellis (from its foundation to 1497); continued by Vincenzo Spargiati (1498–1584). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 23 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1929).
Carusi, Enrico, ed. (1903). Il diario romano di Jacopo Gherardi da Volterra (7 Sep 1479 – 12 Aug 1484). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 23 Part 3a (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1906).
Mannucci, Francesco Luigi, ed. (1913). Antonij Hyvani Sarzanensis: Historia de Volaterrana calamitate. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 23 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Zimolo, Giulio C., ed. (1948). Leodrisii Cribelli: De expeditione Pii papae II adversus Turcos. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 23 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1950).
Bini, Arturo & Grazzini, Giovanni, eds. (1909). Annales Arretinorum maiores et minores [1192–1343]. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1912). [Incomplete.]
Isolde, Francesco, ed. (1910). La mesticanza di Paulo di Lello Petrone. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1912).
Segre, Arturo, ed. (1912). I diarii di Girolamo Priuli (1494–1512), I.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 3 No.1 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1921).
Cessi, Roberto, ed. (1933). I diarii di Girolamo Priuli (1499–1512), II.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 3 No.2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1937).
Cessi, Roberto, ed. (1938). I diarii di Girolamo Priuli (1499–1512), IV.. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 3 No.4 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1941).
Cessi, Roberto, ed. (1912). Anonymus Valesianus: Fragmenta historica ab Henrico et Hadriano Valesio. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 4 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1913).
Isoldi, Francesco, ed. (1916). Il diario romano di Antonio di Pietro dello Schiavo (19 Oct 1404 – 25 Sep 1417)). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 5 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1917).
Morghen, Raffaello, ed. (1927). Chronicon Sublacense (593–1369). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 6 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
Pardi, Giuseppe, ed. (1928). Autori incerti: Diario ferrarese (1409–1502). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 7 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1933).
Pandiani, Emilio, ed. (1930). Bartholomaei Senaregae: De rebus Genuensibus commentaria (1488–1514). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 8 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli (published 1932).
Begani, Orsini, ed. (1908). Antonio Nerli: Breve chronicon monasterii Mantuani sancti Andree ord. Bened. (800–1431). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 13 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi (published 1910).
Tambara, Giovanni, ed. (1906). Juliani canonici: Civitatensis chronica (1252–1364). Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 14 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Segarizzi, Arnaldo, ed. (1902). Michaelis Savonarole : Libellus de magnificis ornamentis Regie Civitatis Padue. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 24 Part 15 (Nuova ed.). Città di Castello: S. Lapi.
Miglierina, Bartolomeo & Castiglioni, Carlo, eds. (1938). Orationes in laudem Francisci, Blancae M., J. G. Sfortiae Vicecomitum. Rerum italicarum scriptores. Vol. 25 Part 2 (Nuova ed.). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli.
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