Archivio di Stato di Macerata

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The Macerata State Archive is the peripheral office of the Ministry for cultural heritage and activities and tourism which, according to the law, preserves the historical documentation produced by the peripheral state administrations in the province of Macerata and for storage. voluntary, temporary storage, donation or purchase of any other archive or documentary collection of historical importance.

Dependent on the Macerata State Archive is the Camerino State Archive Section, established with Ministerial Decree of 1 July 1967 and in operation since 1971.

The Macerata State Archive was established with Presidential Decree 30 September 1963 n. 1409 after being created as a State Archive Section with Ministerial Decree of 15 May 1941, pursuant to Law 22 December 1939 no. 2006. Its peculiar character is that of preserving documentation relating not only to the city and its province, but also to all or a large part of the current Marche region since from the fifteenth century Macerata was the seat of the main pontifical magistrates of the so-called Marca di Ancona, which had jurisdiction over all the Marches. Since the beginning of the activity in July 1941, the Institute received the so-called government funds and some of the most important archival funds from Macerata, which had been brought together in the early decades of the twentieth century by scholars and different bodies at the Mozzi Borgetti municipal library. and at the storage rooms of the Macerata Prefecture. In the following decades, the archives of financial bodies joined this initial nucleus, gathered at the premises of the Macerata Finance Administration, the judicial ones of the Napoleonic courts, of the pontifical and post-unitary civil and criminal courts, of the Magistrate's Court of Macerata, formerly preserved in the former monastery of Santa Chiara, seat of the Court and prisons, and finally also the ancient land registers, all the notarial archives of the Macerata province, as well as some municipal archives which risked dispersion or inevitable degradation. In 1974, in order to accommodate rapidly growing documentation and to better respond to the needs of scholars, the State Archive was transferred to the current location in Corso Fratelli Cairoli n. 175.

The archival heritage described in the SIAS constitutes a source of primary importance for the history of the territory of the city and the current province of Macerata starting from the period of the Ancient regime up to the present day.

In particular, the historical archive of the Municipality of Macerata, deposited in the Institute in 1955, the funds of various magistrates of the Papal Government (General Curia of the Marca of Ancona, Court of the Rota of Macerata, Governor general of the Marca of Ancona) as well as those the peripheral offices of the unitary State (Prefecture, Police Headquarters, Court).

Of particular interest are the notarial archives and the land registers of the Macerata area, from the Gregorian to the urban land, land and buildings.

The latest acquisitions in chronological order are constituted by the archives paid by the Territorial Accounting Office of the State of Macerata and by the Court of Macerata.

Lastly, some of the archives preserved in person deserve special mention, including those of the Macerata notary and musicophile Augusto Marchesini, the Maceratese hero of the Second World War lieutenant Arturo Ciccolini, the Bergamo explorer Giacomo Costantino Beltrami, the multifaceted Genoese artist Giovanni Battista Tassara and, lastly, by Amedeo Ricci, first director of the Macerata State Archive Section.