62 Schena
began only in the 1970s; to these could be added the publication of the “royal
diplomatic papers” of James II of Aragon (1291–1327), edited by the Sicilian
scholar Marina Scarlata.40 A total of 2,193 documents through which the in-
stitutional, political, and socioeconomic history of Sardinia could be studied
from diplomatically corrected and regulated originals. Numerous interesting
bits of information on the political and economic rapport between the Crown
of Aragon and Sicily, the Avignon and Roman papacy, Genoa, Corsica, Florence,
Venice, Milan, and Naples can likewise be drawn from these same documents.
The general picture of over 70 years of Sardinian and Italian history, as seen
from Aragon’s perspective, springs to life.
From the 1990s to the present, scholarly efforts have once again focused
on the publication of sources pertaining to Catalan-Aragonese Sardinia,
found in the already frequently mentioned Archive of the Crown of Aragon
in Barcelona and in the principal repositories of documents in what were the
kingdom of Sardinia’s most important royal cities in the late Middle Ages:
Cagliari,41 Alghero,42 Bosa,43 and Oristano.44 Worth noting in this context is
Cecilia Tasca’s work on the Jewish presence in fourteenth-century Sardinia, the
result of systematic investigations in the archives of Sardinia and Iberia assem-
bled in an appendix of some 827 mostly unpublished documents, transcribed
and summarized with great scientific rigor.45
Tasca’s research generated a second volume dedicated to the study of Jews
in Sardinia in the fifteenth century,46 in which 1,018 documents of a legal or
diplomatic nature are summarized or, in some cases, transcribed in full or part
as well as accurately classified in the volume’s numerous appendices. Tasca has
40 Marina Scarlata, Carte reali diplomatiche di Giacomo II d’Aragona (1291–1327) riguardanti
l’Italia (Palermo, 1993).
41 Lettere regie alla città di Cagliari. Le carte reali dell’Archivio comunale di Cagliari, I. 1358–
1415, eds. Anna Maria Oliva and Olivetta Schena (Rome, 2012).
42 See infra, n. 47.
43 Cecilia Tasca, Titoli e Privilegi dell’Antica Città di Bosa (Cagliari-Oristano, 1999); Cecilia
Tasca, Bosa città regia. Capitoli di Corte, Leggi e Regolamenti (1421–1826) (Rome, 2012).
44 Il “Llibre de Regiment” e le pergamene dell’Archivio comunale di Oristano (secc. XV–XVII),
diplomatic edition and historical notes by Franca Uccheddu, introduction by Luisa
D’Arienzo (Oristano, 1998); Llibre de Regiment, facsimile e traduzione, ed. Giampaolo Mele,
texts by Joan Armangué, Luisa D’Arienzo, and Franca Uccheddu (Oristano, 2007).
45 Cecilia Tasca, Gli ebrei in Sardegna nel XIV secolo. Società, cultura, istituzioni (Cagliari,
1992).
46 Cecilia Tasca, Ebrei e società in Sardegna nel XV secolo. Fonti archivistiche e nuovi spunti di
ricerca (Florence, 2008).