I was thinking about this again yesterday. I’m going to take a guess that the educational divisions of arts organizations are going to be the most stable units with respect to employment, because those efforts can continue even when the venue itself is closed.

Bib. Ricc. 3903

ASVe, Compagnia dei corrieri (*Selections covering most of S1 & S2)

ASVe, Capi del consiglio di dieci, 16 (*Selections)

ASVe, Senato, Dispacci degli ambasciatori, 4, 9, 28, 29, 30, 31, 70, 71 (*Selections)

ASVe, Inquisitori di stato, 157, 216, 449 (*Selections)

*Selections largely related to couriers and posts, but some generally addressing…[Read more]

ASMi, Atti di Governo, Finanza, 353, 933, 936, 949, 965, 976, 2104 (Selections*)

ASMi, Atti di Governo, Culto parte antica, 558

ASMi, Registri, 16-22 (Selections*, many index pages)

ASMi, Carteggio, 20, 150, 220, 251, 276, 300-400 (Selections*)

*Selections largely related to couriers and posts, but some generally addressing crime & policing,…[Read more]

Blogs might suggest some answers? https://blog.americansforthearts.org/

The “Appendix,” full of documents from the now-destroyed Angevin Chancery Records and family letters, from:

Émile Léonard, La jeunesse de Jeanne Ire. Reine de Naples, comtesse de Provence, Vol. II (Paris: Librairie Auguste Picard, 1932).

I’m curious about the outlook for careers in theater administration, given the pandemic. I’ve noticed layoffs and cancellations of job searches. Any sense of which areas of theater admin might recover soonest?

Archivio storico del Patriarcale, Lettere di Gregorio Barbarigo (selection).

Archivio della Curia Vescovile di Padova: wide variety of visitation records, episcopal inquisitions, edicts, letters, synodal documents from 1664-1697 (episcopacy of Gregorio Barbarigo). 61GB of photos, if you’re looking for something specific please let me know!

I don’t have much, but I do have the entirety of:

Archivio di Stato di Roma, Camerale II, Serie Biblioteca Vaticano Vol. I 1497.

My notes say that this is a record/list of the books that were withdrawn from the Vatican Library, written by Bartolomeo Platina in a fantastic scrawl.

Another suggestion for Kristin Bezio: sometimes, university libraries are willing to foot the bill for a faculty member or graduate student at that university to order a scanned reproduction of one or more documents, so long as you promise to deposit it in the library collection once you have finished using it. You might see whether there are…[Read more]

ASF, Esecutore degli Ordinamenti di Giustizia*

Box 1 (inquisitiones, December 1343 – April 1344)

2 (accusationes, November 1343 – April 1344)

3 (testes ad offensam et defensam, December 1343 – April 1344)

13 (accusationes, June 1344 – October 1344)

21 (accusationes et inquisitiones, November 1344 – April 1345)

24 (accusationes, November 1344…[Read more]

ASF, Esecutore degli Ordinamenti di Giustizia

NB: judicial records of elite violence against popolani

1 (inquisitiones, Dec. 1343-April 1344)

2 (accusationes, 29 Nov. 1343-18 April 1344)

3 (testes ad offensam et defensam, 8 Dec. 1343-22 April 1344)

13 (accusationes 1 June 1344 – 24 Oct. 1344)

24 (accusationes 22 Nov. 1344 – 16 March…[Read more]