Le carte Petrotta. Cinquanta anni di storia italoalbanese in un archivio privato

Abstract

The proposed paper aims to present the archive of Gaetano and Rosolino Petrotta, Sicilian-Albanians, promoters of the political, religious and cultural life of the historic Albanian historic minority communities of Italy. In the Petrotta archive, kept in the Eparchy of the Piana degli Albanesi Historical Archive, still lies a large part of the two brothers’ political and cultural activities, over a period of time that goes from the early twentieth century to the sixties. Consisting – or, better to say hosted – of about 50 items, now in the description phase, the small, but important, documentary fund contains memoranda, notes, leaflets, private and institutional correspondence, organizational drafts, newspaper clippings, drafts of books, magazines, offering to the user a slice of political-cultural life aimed at the construction, maintenance and defense of the Italian-Albanian identity.