64 Schena
The same series has published the Aragonese Diplomatario of Hugh II, king
of Arborea from 1321 to 1335: 355 documents in the original (parchment and
paper-royal) and in copy (the records of the Chancellery), discovered by Rafael
Conde in the deposit of the Chancellery of the Archive of the Crown of Aragon;
such documents increase our knowledge of the history of the realm of the giu-
dice of Arborea and the rapport between it and the Crown of Aragon in the
decade following the first Catalan-Aragonese campaign to conquer the regnum
Sardinie et Corsice.
Among the many publishing initiatives organized by the Regional Council
of Sardinia and executed with great dedication and scientific rigor by scholars
of history and law at the Universities of Cagliari and Sassari, special mention
must go to the publication within the series Acta Curiarum Regni Sardiniae
of the acts of the Sardinian parliaments53 introduced into the kingdom of
Sardinia after 1355, which were based on the model of the Catalan Corts and
destined to have a long life (fourteenth–eighteenth centuries).
All the parliaments of the Middle Ages have been published as well;54 these
are a valuable investigative tool for the historian and paleographer since the
parliamentary documents consist largely of the Assembly’s minutes, but also
of original records related to the parliament’s transactions: summons, procura-
tor letters, the deliberations of its departments or stamenti formalized through
53 On this publication, see Antonello Mattone and Gabriella Olla Repetto, “La pubblicazi-
one degli «Acta Curiarum Regni Sardiniae,” Archivio Sardo del movimento operaio conta-
dino e autonomistico 44/46 (1994), pp. 242–261; Antonello Mattone, “L’edizione degli atti
delle assemblee di stato. Gli Acta Curiarum Regni Sardiniae,” Le Carte e la Storia, anno I,
2 (1995), pp. 35–45; Gabriella Olla Repetto, “La collana Acta Curiarum Regni Sardiniae,”
Archivio Sardo del movimento operaio contadino e autonomistico 47/49 (1996), pp. 75–90;
Mariarosa Cardia, “Acta Curiarum Regni Sardiniae. Il progetto di edizione critica degli Atti
dei Parlamenti sardi,” in Assemblee rappresentative, autonomie territoriali, culture politiche.
Studies Presented to the International Commission for the History of Representative and
Parliamentary Institutions, eds. Annamari Nieddu and Francesco Soddu (Sassari, 2011),
pp. 25–44.
54 Il Parlamento di Pietro IV d’Aragona (1355), ed. Giuseppe Meloni (Cagliari, 1993); I
Parlamenti di Alfonso il Magnanimo (1421–1452), ed. Alberto Boscolo, revision, appara-
tus, and notes by Olivetta Schena (Cagliari, 1993); I Parlamenti dei viceré Giovanni Dusay
e Ferdinando Girón de Rebolledo (1495, 1497, 1500, 1504, 1511), eds Anna Maria Oliva and
Olivetta Schena (Cagliari, 1998). The parliament over which Viceroy Ximén Peréz Escrivá
presided was published in the mid-1950s by Antonio Era, Il Parlamento sardo del 1481–1485
(Milan, 1955); Gabriella Olla Repetto, former director of the State Archive of Cagliari,
and Franca Pinuccia Simbula, docent in the History of Commerce and Navigation at the
University of Sassari, are currently preparing a re-edition of this parliament, which will
appear as volume 4 in the new series, Acta Curiarum Regni Sardiniae.