Central Archives of the State (Italy)

Archivio Centrale dello Stato

Established	1875 (1875)
Location	Rome
Curator	Elisabetta Reale
Website	www.acs.beniculturali.it

The Central Archives of the State (in Italian: Archivio centrale dello Stato) is the national archives of Italy which keeps the archives and documents produced after the Unification of Italy (1861) by the central bodies of the Kingdom of Italy and of the present Italian Republic, as well as by public bodies of national importance and by selected private individuals.

The Central Archives headquarters are located in EUR, Rome and while the organisation is ultimately under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture, it has significant operational autonomy. It was created in 1875 under the name of Royal Archives, and was renamed in 1953.

The documents of the Italian pre-unification states, the notarial documents, and the documents after 1861 but produced locally, are preserved in a system of State Archives distributed throughout Italy, which includes 103 archives one for each Italian province, such as the State Archives of Florence, the State Archives of Milan and the State Archives of Venice, along with several additional local sub-branches. In Rome therefore are located two State Archives: the Central Archives of the State and the State Archives of Rome .

Further reading

Archives

• Archivio Centrale dello Stato, a cura di Paola Carucci, in Guida Generale degli Archivi di Stato Italiani, vol. I, pp. 33–295, Roma 1981.
• L’Archivio Centrale dello Stato: 1953/1993, a cura di Mario Serio, Roma, 1993, pp. XVI,611, (Pubblicazioni degli archivi di Stato. Saggi, 27).
• EUR, Guida degli Istituti culturali, a cura dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato e dell’Ente EUR, Milano, 1995, pp. 185.
• Paola Carucci, Gli Archivi di Stato, in Storia d’Italia nel secolo ventesimo. Strumenti e fonti, a cura di Claudio Pavone, vol. II, pp. 55–129, Roma, 2006 (Pubblicazioni degli archivi di Stato, Saggi, 88).

Library

• Renato Grispo, La biblioteca dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato. Storia, funzioni, organizzazione, in Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato, 1962, 1, pp. 33–46.
• Vittorio Stella, La biblioteca dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato. Natura e prospettive di sviluppo, in Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato, 1962, 1, pp. 47–61.
• Giovanni Paoloni, La biblioteca dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato, in Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico, 1986, 3, pp. 914–923.
• Eugenia Nieddu, La biblioteca dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato, in Le biblioteche dell’amministrazione centrale dello Stato, a cura di Madel Crasta, Sandro Bulgarelli, Patrizia Valentini, pp. 93–100, Roma, 1990.
• Amedeo Benedetti, La Biblioteca dell'Archivio Centrale dello Stato, in "Culture del testo e del documento", a. 11, n. 31, 2010, pp. 93–98.

External links

• Central Archives of the State (in Italian only)