Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

The Historical Archives
Vigna di Madama
Reale. A room of the
Historical Archives
Paolo’s Monte di pietà.
The first of the three volumes Per una storia della Compagnia di San Paolo (1563-1853), edited by W.
Crivellin e B. Signorelli was published in the “Quaderni dell’Archivio Storico” series. The three
volumes include the essays: Gli atti ritrovati: fonti per lo studio della Compagnia di San Paolo (1610-
1635) by C. Laurora and M. P. Niccoli, Reti di credito e composizione sociale della Compagnia di San
Paolo. Un’analisi attraverso i lasciti conservati presso l’archivio storico della Compagnia di B. A.
Raviola; I Baronis: da mercanti e banchieri a conti di Buttigliera d’Asti. Ascesa economica e sociale
di una famiglia nella Torino del Seicento, by N. Calapà.
In addition to assistance and consulting services for students and scholars, the staff carries out
researches on internal or external request. The Archive took part in the shooting of a documentary film
on the history of “San Paolo”, to be issued during the forthcoming Turin Olympic Winter Games. Other
recent examples include research on historical buildings, on the sculpture works of Davide Calandra
for the Istituto di San Paolo, on bank mergers and incorporations.
The Archive is a member of ICA - International Council of Archives, an international organization
including the main national archive associations, of the European Association for Banking and
Financial History, including about 80 European banks and foundations, and of ANAI - Associazione
Nazionale Archivistica Italiana (Italy’s National Archive Association). In the context of initiatives
related to the preservation and valorization of Archives, last year the Compagnia’s archive attended a
number of events such as the 15th ICA World Congress on Archives, Memory and Knowledge, held
in Vienna; the 4th Colloque des archivistes de l’Arc Alpin Occidental in Archives et identités
communales, held in Lausanne; the international meetings held in Bari on Public and private sectors
mergers and transformations and their consequences on State archives, Public bodies and
companies, organized by ANAI; meetings held in Turin on the future of memory and the transfer of
cultural heritage in the digital era, promoted by CSI Piemonte.
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