Research program
The inquiries on Regular Clergy's patrimonies and revenues in the Italian States (XVIth-XIXth Centuries)
University Co-ordinator
Università degli Studi di BOLOGNA -
DISCIPLINE STORICHE - BOLOGNA(BO)
Research Unit Leader
Fiorenzo LANDI
Description
At this moment, we have completed the production of microfilms, the collection, selection and analysis of the statistical data, and the individualization of the localities of the monasteries (with the verify of the current name, so to be available for a software as the GIS), relatively the statements situated in Archivio Segreto Vaticano and Sede generalizia dei Gesuiti. We own informations about a mass of 4.000 istitutions (convents, monasteries, abbeys, etc.); and now, we can start to present the results of this part of reserch, Order by Order in Italy. To product the complete situation in Italy and in its islands, we must find other 2.000 declarations of other Orders, that are not in Archivio Segreto Vaticano. We have good contacts with prof. Giancarlo Rocca, editor of a Dictionary of the reliogious Orders, that can collect our reserch group with other private archives, to procede with the production of microfilms and the consequence practice. In this work, we want to continue to collaborate with dott. Tito Menzani, that has matured a solid experience in the collection, selection and analysis of the statistical data, and in its putting on the web.Before the summer, we will organize an international congress to show the methodology and the first results of the reserch. It will be also and important moment of reflection with other scholars, to create a session on this argument (european inquiries about Regular Orders) at the next Congress of Economic History (Helsinky 2006), as in the previous meeting at Buenos Aires and Madrid, where the acts were published by the help of University of Bologna.At the same time, coopering with the unit of Verona, we will use the statistical data to make syntheses of Innocenzo X's inquiry, so to compare it with other regional censuses, available for single States and Orders, during the modern age till the end of XVIII century. We think to begin to define, on reliable statistical data, a problem that is also unsolved: the question of the evolution of the richness and of the revenues of the italian Regular Orders from Innocenzo X to the first limitations to the clergy properties during the Illuminism.
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