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The Bishops' Books of Città di Castello

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Robert Brentano*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

Extract

Paul Kehr, in 1909, published the volume of his Italia Pontificia that deals with Umbria. In it he wrote that there had been preserved in the episcopal archives in Città di Castello three volumes, books of the bishopric or ‘Atti della Curia vescovile' from the thirteenth and following centuries. He also said that there had been an earlier first book of acta but that it had been sought by him in vain. This sort of reference, in Kehr, suggests lost treasure, material sufficiently valuable to draw one up the Tiber to Città di Castello to see what is actually there.

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56 Giacomo d’Enrico Cavalcanti, his successor, was a canon of Orvieto. There is the suggestion of a continued connection between the two communes.Google Scholar

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