ENRICO SERRA

Consistenza  ed organizzazione dell'archivio storico-diplomatico del Ministero degli esteri italiano

N. 156

Summary —The Author, teacher of International Relations at the University of Bologna and Head of the Department of History of Italian F.O., outlines the structure of the Italian archives of the F.O., from the Kingdom of Sardinia until today.

The Italian F.O. keeps its own archive, together with groups of documents coming from some Italian States before the unification of Italy, and keeps also most of the archives of the "Ministero Stampa e Propaganda", later Ministero Cultura Popolare, and of those of the "Ministero dell’Africa Italiana".

The Italian archives in general, and those of the F.O. in particular, are most important, probably the most important after the Russian archives, for the simple reason that they have been opened for the first time in the sixties. Researchers and students will find in them an indispensable source for a revision of almost all the literature concerning Italy published before the end of  last war.