220 
Public Archives and Libraries in Rome 
1477 or 3606 . No. io. Manuscript map of a portion of the United States, 
drawn about 1850, and giving the dates of the foundation of the 
various Catholic dioceses. 
1541 or 3670 . “ Catalogo de los Nombres, Grados, Patrias, Nacimientos, En- 
trada en la Religion, con la Muerte, el Lujar, Ano, Mes y Dia de los 
Sugetos, que componian la Provincia de Mexico el Dia del Arresto 
XXV del Mes de Junio MDCCLXXVII.” A carefully collated copy 
made at Rome in the month of Jan., 1781. Cart. 195 X 295. 108 pp. 
Fondo Sessoriano. 
195-197 or 1280 - 1282 . “ Decisiones Sacrae Congregationis Concilii Triden- 
tini/’ 1574-1660. Vol. I., 400 pp.; II., 318 pp.; III., 232 pp. Volume 
I., ff. 10, 11, 15, 29-31, treats of the case of the Bishop of Paraguay, 
involving the rights of American bishops. Volume II., if. 116 and 
153, and vol III., f. 246, treat of cases arising in America but not 
of local peculiarity. 
229 or 2061 . ff. 373-379. “ Particulars Positiones Sacrae Congregationis, 
1672-1676; Indiarum decimarum.” Contains an enclosure of 22 
pages, with Spanish case urging the granting of this revenue to the 
king for the fortification of the Indies. 
377 or 1554 . if. 1-32. Conte Luigi Rilli Orsini, “ Notizie sulla Scoperta del- 
P America, e Religione, Origine e Derivazione di quei Popoli, divisa 
in tre Ragionamenti scritti dal Conte Luigi de Rilly-Orsini, Parisio 
Romano e Fiorentino, Firenze l’anno della Riparazione del Genere 
Umano MXCCCXIX ”. 
443 or 1274 . if. 76-125. “ Relatione del Clarissimo M. Giovanni Correro re- 
tornato Ambasciatore del Christianissimo Re di Francia, dell’anno 
1568.” Especially ff. 46, 114-115. 
452 or 2056 . pp. 353-358. Don Alvaro de Bazan, Marques de Santa Cruz, 
“ Carta del Marques de Sta. Cruz a Su Magd. sobra la Navigacion 
de la India, cu que representa sus servicios ”. 
Fondo Risorgimento. 
This collection, of which there is a good manuscript inventory, contains ma¬ 
terial relating to the whole movement for the unification of Italy. It was not 
examined in detail, but contains some little American material which has been 
used by Mr. H. Nelson Gay in an article on a diplomatic incident between the 
governments of the United and the Papal States. 23 
MUNICIPAL COLLECTIONS. 
In the palace of the Conservators on the Capitol are fairly important manu¬ 
script collections belonging to the municipality of Rome. These consist for 
the most part of the records of the commune. In addition is the recently ac¬ 
quired archive of the Orsini family. 24 This is not yet in a condition to use, 
and could scarcely by any possibility contain American material. 
The library of St. Cecilia was not examined. 
23 “Uno Screzio Diplomatico fra il Governo Pontificio e il Governo Americano e la 
Condotta degli Svizzeri a Perugia il 26 Giugno 1859 ”, from Archivio Storico del Risor¬ 
gimento JJmbro, anno III. (Perugia, 1907), pp. 113-201. He publishes, on pages 141- 
thirteen documents of which the originals are in number 73 of this collection. 
4 Bourgin, Archives Pontihcales, pp. 102-103. Its importance is here apparently ex¬ 
aggerated. 
