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archives,33 especially by the frequently mentioned Archive of the Crown of
Aragon in Barcelona.34
The publication—based on the work of Evandro Putzulu, the director of
the Municipal Archive of Cagliari at the time—of the Cartulari di Arborea,35 a
collection of unpublished documents emanating from the Catalan-Aragonese
chancellery that provides important information on relations between the
giudice of Arborea and the king of Aragon for a period of about one hundred
years, from 1348 to 1430, dates to 1957. Interesting, innovative, and indicative of
the new direction assumed by the studies of the Cagliari school, is the facsim-
ile edition of handwritten texts from Sardinia published in 1962 by Francesco
Loddo Canepa.36 But extensive publication of the “royal diplomatic papers”
of the kings of Aragon, Alfonso III the Liberal (1327–1336) and John I the
Hunter (1387–1396) based on the work of Casula,37 and those of Peter IV
the Ceremonious (1336–1387) edited by D’Arienzo,38 as well as the publication
of Documenti sui visconti di Narbona e la Sardegna, likewise by D’Arienzo,39
33 Sardinian scholars’ interest in the Iberian documents dates back to the late nineteenth
century; see Filippo Vivanet, La Sardegna negli archivi e nelle biblioteche della Spagna.
Memoria postuma pubblicata con prefazione da Silvio Lippi (Torino, 1906), but increased
in the 1950s after World War II with the research campaigns of Professors Motzo, Era,
Boscolo, and Loddo Canepa, whose results were recorded in the detailed accounts pub-
lished in the journal Archivio Storico Sardo, XXIV (1954), pp. 469–503—followed by those
by Putzulu, Javierre Mur, Bulfaretti—on whom see the essays published by these same
scholars in the Archivio Storico Sardo, XXV, fasc. 1–2 (1957)—and later by Olla Repetto, see
supra, note 25.
34 For a preliminary study of the collection in the Barcelona archive, see Federico Udina
Martorell, Guía histórica y descriptiva del Archivo de la Corona de Aragón (Madrid, 1986).
35 Evandro Putzulu, “Cartulari di Arborea. Raccolta di documenti diplomatici inediti sulle
relazioni fra il giudicato d’Arborea e i re d’Aragona,” Archivio Storico Sardo, XXV, fasc. 1–2
(1957), pp. 71–169.
36 Francesco Loddo Canepa, Esempi di scritture paleografiche della Sardegna, vol. I (Turin,
1962). This is an illustrated volume of documents written in Sardinia and on Sardinian
topics that covers five centuries of history (from the thirteenth to the seventeenth), in-
cluded among which are acts produced by the public scribanie of the regnum Sardinie
et Corsice. Every document, reproduced in facsimile, is accompanied by a transcription,
commentary, and annotations related to extrinsic characters.
37 Francesco Cesare Casula, Carte Reali Diplomatiche di Alfonso III il Benigno, re d’Aragona,
riguardanti l’Italia (Padua, 1970); Francesco Cesare Casula, Carte Reali Diplomatiche di
Giovanni I il Cacciatore, re d’Aragona, riguardanti l’Italia (Padua, 1977).
38 Luisa D’Arienzo, Carte Reali Diplomatiche di Pietro IV il Cerimonioso, re d’Aragona, riguar-
danti l’Italia (Padua, 1970).
39 Luisa D’Arienzo, Documenti sui visconti di Narbona e la Sardegna, 2 vols (Padua, 1977).