SCHIAPARELLI, LUIGI

SCHIAPARELLI, LUIGI. — Distinguished scholar of diplomatic and palaeographic disciplines, b. at Cerrione (Biella) on 2 August 1871, d. at Florence on 26 January 1934.

Immediately after receiving his degree, he attended an advanced course in Munich at the school of L. Traube; called to join the Historical School established by E. Monaci at the R. Società romana di storia patria, he had the opportunity to study and illustrate several Roman archives; he was P. F. Kehr’s principal collaborator for Italia Pontificia (v. REGESTO); in 1903 he was appointed to the chair of palaeography and diplomatics at the Istituto di studi superiori of Florence, later the University, which he held until his death; he was director of the School for librarians and palaeographic archivists; co-director of the journal Archivio storico italiano from 1927; a national member of the R. Accademia dei Lincei in 1928 and of numerous other scholarly societies, he was a member of the governing council of the Istituto storico italiano per il medioevo, of which he was an active collaborator; at that same Institute he directed the series Regesta chartarum Italiae and the Historical and bibliographical guides to the archives and libraries of Italy.

Among his major publications: The Diplomas of the Kings of Italy, in the Sources for the History of Italy, namely The di-

the diplomas of Berengario I (1905), of Guido and Lamberto (1906), of Ludovico III and Rodolfo II (1910), of Ugo and Lotario, Berengario II and Adalberto (1924); the publication in facsimile of the diplomas in the Archivio paleografico italiano (vol. IX); in the same Fonti: the Codice diplomatico longobardo (left unfinished), vol. I (1929) and vol. II (1933). Studies on the private document in the Middle Ages, and in particular on the Lombard document, appeared in the Bullettino dell'Istituto storico italiano and in the Archivio storico italiano, where he also published a series of palaeographical studies on the origin and characteristics of the various scripts.

Among his palaeographical studies are: Il Codice CCCCXC della Bibl. capitolare di Lucca (1924), with an illustration of the Luccan scribal school (Studi e testi, 36), and Influenze straniere nella scrittura italiana dei secc. VIII e IX (1927; ibid., 47). For use in schools he published: La scrittura latina nell'età romana (1921); Raccolta di documenti latini (1921); Avviamento allo studio delle abbreviature latine nel medioevo (1926). Giulio Battelli