The Order of St John and Family Archives: Mapping Hidden Networks of Memory
Event: The Order of St John and Family Archives: Mapping Hidden Networks of Memory
Date: Thursday 11 June 2026
Time: 09:00 - 13:30
Venue: Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Auditorium
This event is a collaboration between the Department of Library Information & Archive Sciences at the University of Malta, the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (Malta Study Center), the Direzione Generale Archivi and the Archivio di Stato di Firenze.
It is being jointly organised by Dr Valeria Vanesio from the UM's Department of Library Information and Archive Sciences, together with Dr Daniel Gullo, the Director of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (Malta Study Center).
Programme
09:00 - 09:15 Institutional Welcome Address by Paola D'Orsi, Director of the Archivio di Stato di Firenze
09:15 - 09:45 Introduction by Daniel Gullo, Director, Malta Study Center at HMML
Linking the Sources: Digitisation of Family Archives and the Order of St John of Jerusalem
Reflections by Alessio Assonitis (Medici Archive Project)
Malta, the Medici and Their Archive
09:45 - 10:05 Anton Caruana Galizia (Newcastle University)
The Archivum Depiro and the Order of St John
10:05 - 10:25 Carlotta Gentile (Archivio Corsini)
Archivio Corsini Firenze, Carte del Gran Priorato di Pisa e delle sue Commende Camerali
10:25 - 10:55 Chiara Cambrai (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Sezione Archivi)
Tra i Barberini e l'Ordine di San Giovanni: mappe interpretative della memoria archivistica
10:55 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:50 Tiziana Checchi (Abbazia Territoriale di Subiaco)
I Colonna e l'Ordine di Malta: Le tracce di un rapporto plurisecolare nelle carte dell'Archivio Colonna del ramo di Paliano
11:50 - 12:10 Matthias Ebejer (Archidiocese of Malta)
The Tuscan Circle: Giacomo Bosio's papers in the Aldobrandini family archive
12:15 - 12:30 Concluding remarks by Dr Valeria Vanesio (University of Malta; Malta Study Center at HMML)
Una rete di carte. Famiglie, Cavalieri e la costruzione di una memoria archivistica condivisa
12:30 - 13:00 Final Discussion/ Q&A
13:00 - 13:30 Closing Remarks by Isabella Aurora (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Sezione Archivi), Alessandro Cecchi and Elena Lombardi (Fondazione Casa Bunarroti), and Claudia Borgia (Soprintendenza Archivistica e Bibiografica della Toscana).
