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the first chair of medieval archaeology in Italy, at the University of Cagliari.
With the establishment of the journal of Archeologia Medievale in Florence in
1974, Boscolo and his colleagues were able to promote medieval archaeology
in Sardinia as a new scientific field. It was clear to Boscolo that archaeology
was the new linchpin to thoroughly understanding the island’s past, especially
during periods for which so few documents exist. He and his colleagues also
started transcribing many of the documents into Italian, with particular atten-
tion to the parliament, which offered a window onto aspects of socioeconomic
relations between the Spanish monarchy and the island. The first parliament
was created in 1355 under Peter IV, the Ceremonious.35 Twenty-five years after
Boscolo’s departure, two of his collaborators, Olivetta Schena and Anna Maria
Oliva, organized perhaps the most important conferences on documents from
medieval and modern Sardinia, in his name.36 Schena (see her chapter infra)
and Oliva have continued what Boscolo started, especially with tireless work
in archives on topics that range from historiography, Sardinian parliaments,
“Le fonti per la storia del regno di Sardegna,” and her chapter infra. For new directions,
see Luciano Gallinari, “Dieci anni di storiografia sulla Sardegna catalana (2000–2010):
considerazioni e prospettive,” in Oliva and Schena, Sardegna Catalana, pp. 373–394; and
Sergio Tognetti, “La Sardegna catalana, storiografia sarda e storiografia italiana a confron-
to,” in Nuova Rivista Storica (2015), 1037–1046.
35 Giuseppe Meloni, Genova e Aragona all’ epoca di Pietro il Cerimonioso, III (Padua, 1982);
Giuseppe Meloni, ed., Il Parlamento di Pietro IV d’Aragona (1355) (Cagliari, 1993); Antonello
Mattone, “Centralismo monarchico e resistenze stamentarie. I Parlamenti sardi nel XVI e
XVII secolo,” in Acta Curiarum Regni Sardiniae. Istituzioni rappresentative nella Sardegna
medioevale e moderna (Cagliari, 1996), pp. 127–179.
36 Maria Giuseppina Meloni, Anna Maria Oliva, and Olivetta Schena, eds., Ricordando
Alberto Boscolo. Bilanci e prospettive storiografiche. Convegno Internazionale di Studi,
Cagliari, 7–9 novembre 2012: “Troviamo la strada o apriamone una nuova”. See also,
Boscolo’s impact on the cultural environment of the time in Luca Demontis, “Alberto
Boscolo, Uno storico fra Mediterraneo e Atlantico,” Mediterranea—ricerche storiche
10 (December 2013), pp. 553–574. For a complete bibliography on Boscolo, see Luisa
D’Arienzo, “Alberto Boscolo nel Comitato Scientifico della Nuova Raccolta Colombiana
e gli studi per il quinto Centenario della scoperta dell’America,” in Meloni, Oliva, and
Schena, Ricordando Alberto Boscolo.