Dorit Raines
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Studi Umanistici, Faculty Member
- Studi Umanistici, Culture, Early Modern History, Venetian History, Library Science, Library and Information Science, and 21 moreLibrary and Archival Science, History of Library and Information Science, Social History, History, Cultural History, Medieval History, Modern History, Archives, Family history, Library history, Venetian Archives, Sarpi, Ruling Elites, History of Mentality, History of Reading and Writing, Digital Humanities, History of Venice, Medieval Chronicles, Genealogy-Family History, History of mentality (Classics), and Ruling Groupsedit
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This article describes the birth and development of the political archives that Venetian patrician families kept in their private palaces for the use of the Republic's officeholders. It will shed light on the different uses made of public... more
This article describes the birth and development of the political archives that Venetian patrician families kept in their private palaces for the use of the Republic's officeholders. It will shed light on the different uses made of public documents as well as on the different approaches to recordkeeping, from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. These archives, shared by all family members and transmitted from generation to generation, eventually became extremely voluminous partly because copies from documents in public registries were made and kept, but also because new types of analytical documents based on data extracted from the public record were introduced. Until the eighteenth century, when rational retrieval systems began to be introduced, the documents were kept in ‘buste’ (containers) and extracted as and when needed by the officeholder.
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B. Vanin, La Biblioteca dei ragazzi «Maria Pezzè Pascolato», in: «Biblioteche effimere. Biblioteche circolanti a Venezia (XIX-XX secolo)», a cura di D. Raines, Venezia 2012, pp. 105-174