Il progetto di edizione delle Carte Reali dell' Archivio della Corona d'Aragona e i conflitti fra potere centrale e potere periferico nel Regnum Sardiniae et Corsicae: un caso studio

The first paragraph of the contribution, by Alessandra Cioppi, is intended to be a first approach to the study and edition of the diplomatic royal papers concerning Italy, promulgated by King Martin I of Aragon, which would constitute a new stage of these editions of unpublished documentary sources, still today kept in the Real Cancilleria section of the Archives of the Crown of Aragon in Barcelona. It is, indeed, a very precious if not, in some cases, fundamental archival fund for the history of the Italian peninsula and the Mediterranean basin in the 14th and 15th centuries, since it collects heterogeneous documentation on loose paper produced by the Royal Chancellery or coming from other desks, public and private, which interacted with the Crown of Aragon at that time. Thanks to the analysis of the royal papers of Martin I, a further objective of the essay is to provide an extremely significant picture of the methods and forms of social communication used in public documents by the Catalan-Aragonese Royal Chancellery, which in this context represents a of the most interesting and cutting-edge realities of medieval Mediterranean Europe.