Le note storiche di Marino Mauriello notaio di Benevento (secoli XV-XVI)

The aim of this paper is to present the unique case of Marino Mauriello, a notarychronicler active in Benevento, papal enclave in the Kingdom of Naples, between theend of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. It relies on studiesdedicated to the propensity of notaries to extend their duty of preserving memory fromthe habitual transactions recorded in notarial acts to accounts of historical or morepersonal facts, in order to discuss the (re)discovered short historical notes of Mauriello.It interprets what Mauriello's historical accounts reveal about the man and his work,his cultural and political influences in the context of the notarial profession and thesurvival of notarial documentation in Benevento. It further investigates his politicalaffiliation through two anonymous epitaphs that the notary copied in one of hisprotocols. Finally, the complete historical notes are published in the Annex