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ITALIANO: Dopo la fine dell'età napoleonica il ripristino dell'organizzazione e delle modalità di funzionamento degli archivi degli Stati italiani fu condotto sotto il segno di una forte continuità rispetto al periodo antecedente la Rivoluzione francese, confermandone il ruolo fondamentale di difesa dei diritti sovrani e di supporto alla politica e all'amministrazione. Lo sviluppo degli studi storici ed eruditi nella prima metà del secolo XIX, provocò una crescente pressione da parte degli studiosi per avere accesso agli archivi del medioevo e dell'età moderna, nel quadro di una battaglia che assunse anche un significato latamente politico. Nonostante la progressiva apertura degli archivi, realizzatasi, in tempi e con modalità diverse nei vari Stati preunitari, fu solo con i provvedimenti di unificazione della legislazione archivistica nazionale negli anni Settanta che fu riconosciuto il diritto di accesso agli archivi come fonti per la storia. / ENGLISH: After the end of the Napoleonic era, the organization and functioning of the archives of the Italian States was restored in strict continuity with the the ancien régime. In particular, the main – if not only – function of the central state archives, located in the capital cities (the Archivio di Corte in Turin, the Archivio Governativo in Milan, the Archivio dei Frari in Venezia, the Grande Archivio in Naples, etc.) was to provide kings, governments and central bureaucracies with documentary support for their political and administrative activities. Starting from the 1830s scholars began to be allowed to consult medieval and early modern archives for historical research. The struggle for the recognition of the right to consult archives by historians was political in nature, and intimately connected to the struggle for the Unification of Italy and the affirmation of liberal principles. It is only with the archival legislation issued in the 1870s by the nascent Kingdom of Italy that such rights were openly recognized.

In the middle decades of the 19th century (also known as the "History century"), the archives opened to historical research in Italy as well, starting to raise new awareness on the importance of documentary sources from the Medieval and Modern Ages. The network of State Archives was organised gradually; however, before and after the Unification of Italy, cities, "municipal" scholars and their networks of relationships, as well as city archives and institutions, remained a dominant element. Using classification essays and a series of researches on individual citizen contexts from the whole Italian Peninsula, this volume explores the variety and richness of this transformation, in the country's centre and in the suburbs.