CITIES UNVISITED . 1 
Some indications are here given of documents of possible interest to Ameri¬ 
can historians in collections which were not personally visited. In such cases 
it is not possible of course to determine the absence of material, but only to 
point out such as has come to notice. It has not seemed worth while, moreover, 
to call attention again to documents cited in the various publications on Colum¬ 
bus, Toscanelli, Vespucci, etc., which are primarily contributions to American 
history, and as such known to American historians. The chief guide to the 
smaller archives of Italy is, Gli Archivi della Storia d’Italia, by Giuseppe Maz- 
zatinti, published at Rocca S. Casciano, in 1897, and subsequent years. All 
documents seeming of possible relevancy mentioned in the first seven volumes 
of this work are listed, together with some of which notice was obtained in 
other ways: 
Arezzo. From the Biblioteca della Fraternitd di S. Maria ; 183, no. 24. “ Voy¬ 
age faict en Greenland en Tan MDCLII. ,, 
Forli. Biblioteca Communale, Antico Fondo, 9 and 10, Avznsi, 1679-1729, 
296 and 316 fif. 
Museo del Risorgimento, II. “ Stances sur le Depart de M. Maroncelli 
pour le Nouveau Monde ”, with a letter from the same from New 
York, June 29, 1840. 
Lucca. 2 * * R. Archhno di Stato. Conceivably something might be found in 
Affari Esteri, nos. 229 and 230 , correspondence of the secretary of 
state, 1818 and 1820; and in R. Intima Segreteria di Gabinetto, nos. 
477 - 484 , Lettere Diplomatiche e Particolari dirette a S. M. la Du- 
chessa Maria Luisa, 1817-1824, and to Carlo Ludovico, 1824-1847. 
Biblioteca. Nos. 45 and 46 contain relations of Venetian ambassadors 
and others, altogether 1289 pages. Of these the only ones of pos¬ 
sible interest are, volume 1, pp. 461-474, a relation of Marc Antonio 
Colonna to the Catholic king; and volume II., p. 972 ff., a relation 
of the affairs of France and the Huguenots. 
Milan. 8 Archivio della Camera di Commercio e dell’Universitd dei Mercanti. 
There are here a few documents of the Philadelphia and Chicago 
Expositions; and some mercantile statistics which might be of value. 
Biblioteca Ambrosiana.* Indice 219 of the Archivio Vaticano is entitled 
an index of the Italian manuscripts of this library, and exhibits noth¬ 
ing pertinent. It is, however, incomplete, and something might be 
found among the 150 volumes of original despatches, etc., belonging 
to St. Carlo Borromeo, and covering the years 1566-1584. These 
documents are not chronologically arranged and are difficult to use. 
1 Of the many scholarly itineraries the most useful is perhaps that of Professor Blok, 
Verslag van Onderzoekingen naar Archivalia in Italie (1901, pp. 85). The exhaustive 
researches of Director Kehr, published from time to time in the Nachrichten der K. 
Gesellschaft der JVissenschaften zu Gottingen, relate to so much earlier a period that 
they are but of incidental use. 
2 Inventario del R. Archivio di Stato in Lucca (Lucca, 1872, 1876, 1880, 1888, 4 vols.). 
8 Blok,. Verslag (1901), pp. 3-6. 
‘Hinojosa, Los Despachos, p. 195. 
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