A documentary practice between redundancy and silence: the Regolatori and the public records in Florence between the 14th and 15th centuries
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/104Keywords:
Middle Ages, 14th-15th Century, Florence, Political institutions, Finances, ArchivesAbstract
The essay analizes the institutional and documentary practices of the office of Regulatores introitus et expensarum, born in 1352 in order to control the financial administration of the florentine Camera communis. Flexibility and pragmatic ability of adaptation are the most important features of the new office, that make the Regulatores an effective tool for the florentine government of the State. A form of administration useful but not long lasting: since the first decades of Quattrocento, the importance of public debt brings the Ufficiali del Monte to take a central role in financial administration, with the slow decline of the Regulatores. The archive of the office lies now inside the huge Archivio del Monte, witnessing the close relation between institutional history and evolution of documentary and achival organization.
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