The Society of National History: A deposit of memoriae for the people of Puglia
On November 16, 1871, during a meeting of the Provincial Council of Bari, Ottavio Serena proposed the establishment a body to safeguard the historical memory of our Earth.
The idea, although greeted with unanimous support from the Council, only 5 October 1875, began to become operational with the establishment of a "Provincial Commission of Archaeology and National History" to the Land of Bari
In the fall of 1882 as a result of the interest of Antonio Jatta "young and talented scholar," The Committee was allotted in some rooms of the palace University has just established. He set to work, the Governing Council, which were requested to participate in the lawyer Michele Mirenghi , General Mazzini Gaetano Perotti , Professor Giambattista Nitto de Rossi, the historian Young Beltran and the same Antonio Jatta .
Immediately after his inauguration, the Council of the "Commission" had an idea of \u200b\u200b John Beltran sula and the basis of Chartularium Cupersanense , produced by D. Morea, designed the transcription of documents in the archives of the cathedral and the Basilica of S. Nicola, which should have been added transcripts of documents in the archives of the Chapter of other municipalities in the province of Bari
This is how the monumental undertaking of diplomatic Code Bari before and after Puglia, which still await palaeographers and some of the major Italian and foreign diplomats.
The first volume of collection of sources was published by Nitto GB De Rossi and F. Nitti in 1897, for types of Trani Vecchi publisher under the title " Scrolls of the Cathedral of Bari (952-1264).
riscos unconditional appreciation of the work in the university and specialized and contributed decisively to encourage developers to continue his enterprise. Under the chairmanship of Antonio Jatta , vice president of the province of Bari, the "Commission" intensified its programs and its achievements.
All the most distinguished scholars of the province of Bari were called to lend their cooperation and together they gave birth to an amazing and surprising season of study, allowing for the first time in the world to specialists and devoted lovers of local history know better and better the events of the past Puglia, without, as usual, uses and customs, habits and coins of weights and measures, castles and cottages , convents and cathedrals. A new series was promoted - documents and monographs - is intended to gather the results of studies of men like Joseph Ceci ( chronicle of events of 1799 ") or Francis Carabellese (" The City Pugliese under the Norman-Swabian Monarchy "," Charles of Anjou in relations with the East "), Maximilian Mayer ( stations prehistoric Molfetta).
In 1935 the "Commission" was turned to the government will, in "Director of National History Deputation" , whose horizon was no longer that of the Terra di Bari but, as he had always supported Michele Viterbo, that of the whole region of Puglia. The first president of the Royal Deputation "was the prof. Gennaro Maria Monti, who was succeeded in 1943 Professor. Joseph Petraglione and in 1947 Professor. Pier Fausto Palumbo , author, among other things, a most valuable study on the schism of Anacleto II.
A new generation of students entered the halls once frequented by Giuseppe Petroni and the annals of history "piccola patria" pugliese, come avrebbe detto il prof. Francesco Maria de Robertis , vennero rinverditi.
Il depositum memoriae della regione il 28 maggio del 1950 cambiò ancora una volta la sua denominazione, assumendo il titolo di "Società di Storia Patria per la Puglia" .
Pier Fausto Palumbo mantenne la presidenza, con ciò garantendo continuità d’intenti nel passaggio dal vecchio al nuovo ordinamento.
Palumbo chaired the "Company" conference organized and promoted national awards without neglecting the long necklaces start first of all the diplomatic code, which was enriched with new and important volumes. Many of the initiatives dalla Società di Storia Patria in quegli anni.
Fra tutte, una merita anche in questa sede menzione particolare: la pubblicazione della rivista "Archivio Storico Pugliese" , la quale, raccogliendo l’eredità di "Japigia" Bari and "Renaissance Salento" Lecce, assured and ensures consistent and qualified in the field of historic scientific update Puglia.
The disagreements between the Company and the University of Bari during the last Palumbo years of presidency were actually healed in February 1964 with a decree issued by the Ministry of Education, which appointed Commissioner of the "Company" Professor Francesco Maria De Robertis , dean of the faculty of Law, University of Bari
Under the management commissioner, and thus the presidency of the illustrious giusromanista, the Society of National History for Puglia resumed the tradition of studies that had launched from Nitto de Rossi , dal Nitti e dal Carabellese , stabilendo, tra l’altro, accordi con la professoressa Jole Mazzoleni , paleografa di fama europea, perché continuasse Under his leadership, the publication of volumes of diplomatic code Bari, organizing conferences and conventions (particularly valuable science will prove to be those of common Messapic Peucetians dauni and the days and Frederick), promoting studies and research.
