Report on the experience of the class in the State
How many of us have wondered why in the classical history textbooks is not present in Sardinia? Or, what role he served as our island in the past? To try to answer these questions continually, the State Archive of Cagliari, Office of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture. The goal is to put this structure is mainly to introduce the "Sardinian size" that is the history of institutions sardines, providing users a variety of documents that are stored and inventoried in order to facilitate their consultation. In Sardinia there are four state archives, one for each province, although the most robust and the most important is undoubtedly that of Cagliari, the city was for many years the capital of Regnum Sardiniae, reign that began with the conquest Catalan-Aragonese island and then went on seamlessly with English rule, a short period of time followed by the Austrian government domination of Savoy from 1720 until 1848 that the so-called "perfect fusion" with Piedmont. 
But does it really work as a State Archives? What kind of documents are in an archive? This institution is maintained, in addition to the papers produced by the offices of the state in post-unification period, documentation of the events pre-unification, that is all that has been produced by the institutions that have governed politically (governors and viceroys) or administered the island ( Prosecutors real Inspector General) shall also include the organs of administration of justice. Taking into consideration the period of Savoy in terms of our research, there was an office called the Royal Secretary of State and War, based in Cagliari, who had the task of drafting the documents relating to the affairs of the island's political and legal jurisdiction Viceroy in connection with the secretariats and departments in Turin. This continuous exchange of statements has resulted in a substantial documentation that has been described in the 'Inventory of R. Secretary of State written by Francesco Loddo Canepa (1887 - 1966) who was a university professor and director of the State of Cagliari. Should not think of this as a simple inventory list of events, but such a description and analysis that helps us to understand and analyze all the archival material of the bottom of R. Secretary of State: the documents received, business documents, original documents and acts in a copy. On this basis we can also say that in Turin, at the State Archives, will be kept for a certain period in addition to that an archive of Cagliari. A
'other important institution for the historical reconstruction of the revolutionary period is that of the Royal Audience of Sardinia, created in 1564 as the highest court of the Kingdom with civil and criminal responsibilities he held until 1848, and over time also took political and administrative powers and between the exercise of Viceroy, in case of vacancy. And 'this is the role of fundamental importance that after April 28, 1794 (expulsion of the viceroy and officials from the Piedmont Sardinia) when, for the first time, becomes the highest governing body of the island with a revolutionary act in some way because, as was permitted by the laws of the Kingdom, it has never happened before the Royal Audience claim to exercise that authority, most importantly in this case, after the dismissal of the Viceroy. In fact, it happened that during the eighteenth century had died two viceroy in charge but it was done following the usual practice under which the king appointed, along with the new viceroy, his representative, in case of absence or death, delivering a sealed envelope Regent at the Royal Chancellery. This change in government can also verify and demonstrate through their actions that we were: in fact there is a "hole" in the inventory of R. Secretary of State where Loddo Canepa noted that for the period from April 30 to 24 settembre1794, governing the Royal Audience with authority Viceroy, the dispatches that are missing in the archive of the judiciary.
Very important was also the role played by Parliament in this period, an institution that had characterized the legal period of Aragonese and English records of proceedings of the parliament deals with claims of Stamenti military, ecclesiastical and royal were presented to the Viceroy and then approved by the sovereign. As well as institutions in general, the meetings of the displacements were very important since January 1793 when the military decided to displacements Autoconvocate commitment to fund new enrollments and procuring supplies and equipment to counter the French threat. We can remember, just talking about the military displacements, the Marquis Francesco Maria Asquer, lord of Flumini who financed the cost of the fight against the French, this information shall not be general in nature and relate to specific events, can be told and have firsthand experience with also to private archives, such as family Asquer, which are donated or deposited in the State.
All this information about the size of Sardinia could not have been passed down to our time if there had been a structure of this type is ready to collect and preserve their importance. The visit to the Archives was certainly very educational experience that has enabled us, for me and my class (4L A. Pacinotti high school) to learn more about the origins of our island, and thanks to the archivist Josephine Catani , who was our guide on this journey through eighteenth-century Sardinian size, to really understand the cultural validity of this institution. So I invite anyone who wanted only to know more about the history of Sardinia, to go to the Archives where you will be satisfied and maybe even surprised by the explanations provided to him.
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