The Accounting Register of a Royal Secretary in Aragonese Naples

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Published: Apr 12, 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/356
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Ferrante I of Aragon, Antonello Petrucci, war, Balance, Royal Household

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Enza Russo
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3863-2981

Abstract

In the crucial years of the succession war that involved the Kingdom of Naples after Alfonso the Magnanimous’death (1459-1464), a secretary of the new king Ferrante I of Aragon, Antonello Petrucci, was entrusted with royal financial charges. He therefore compiled an account book, where receipts and payments of the royal finances were carefully recorded. It has been recently discovered: this paper aims at examining its actual framework as well as the relative volume of the state budget. Because of its new and comprehensive body of evidence, Petrucci’s account book is a very useful source, which may provide additional informations not only on the bulk of the state funds and expenditure but also on the structure of the king’s household and on the system of the royal financial administration, which appears now as characterized by a more complex organization than it was supposed to be in the past.

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Russo, Enza. 2013. “The Accounting Register of a Royal Secretary in Aragonese Naples”. Reti Medievali Journal 14 (1), 415-547. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/356.
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Vol 14 No 1 (2013)
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