Carte Allacci: Notes on the fate of Leone Allacci's papers in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Rome

This paper discusses the history of the collection Carte Allacci of the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome, attempting to piece together what information remains about its creation and transfer to the Vallicelliana. The purpose is to provide the historical background for a series of forthcoming studies focusing on individual items of this collection, which contains Leone Allacci’s unpublished works on classical antiquity. The article provides an account of the events following Allacci’s death and summarizes the contents of Allacci’s will, then focuses on Raffaele Vernazza and Agostino Mariotti, respectively the creator of the collection and the scholar responsible for its donation to the Vallicelliana. A transcription of Vernazza’s will is given in the Appendix.