Author: Samuel K. Cohn

A Privileged Peep Hole into the Past: Why large numbers of testaments are needed and how exceptions to rules can be relevant

October 31, 2025

findings

I have just returned from a short stint in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze (ASF), 18 September to 2 October. It may be my last archival collecting of testaments for the project, at least in the ASF. The purpose was to increase the sample size of my last quartile of Pisan testaments,1501-25. These records within…