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This is the site introducing you to the description of the archival fond and the collections stored at the Damiani Family Private Archive, in Palermo, Italy.

This Archive has been being created during a time span of over 150 years and its constitution is due to the initiative of several generations of the Damiani family to preserve and make accessible a wide typology of historic documents collected over the professional and artistic activities carried out by the family members.

The focus of the archive is on architect Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda (b. 1834 - d. 1911) and his contributions, but it also includes personal archives of Eleonora Mancinelli, Francesco Damiani, Angela Damiani. In more recent years, the archive of Anna Maria Fundarò (b. 1936 - d. 1999), an architect and university professor and Mario Damiani's wife, has been added.

The Damiani archive also include collections of family letters, prints, drawings, and paintings. The documents in these archives are connected by the family ties of the creators and their shared intention to preserve private memories as historical documents of a community.

It’s organized as follows:

  • 'Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda' (1849-1910) Archive, architect, declared of particularly important historical interest by decree no. 344 of 2010, reordering completed in 2019
  • 'Eleonora Mancinelli' Archive, poet (b. 1842 - d. 1910), declared of cultural interest by decree no. 99 of 2023, to be reordered
  • 'Angela Damiani in Lanza' Archive, poet and writer (b. 1879 - d. 1936), declared of cultural interest by decree no. 99 of 2023, to be reordered
  • 'Francesco Damiani’ Archive, engineer (b. 1885 - d. 1933), declared of cultural interest by decree no. 99 of 2023, to be reordered
  • 'Anna Maria Fundarò' Archive (1954-1999), architect, university lecturer, declared of cultural interest by decree no. 110 of 2020, reordering completed in 2024
  • Family papers and collections (18th century - 1940s), to be reordered

The Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda and Anna Maria Fundarò archives were reordered with the support from the “Sicily Archival Superintendence – State Archive of Palermo” and from the “Ministry of Heritage and Culture – Directorate-General for Archives”.

The archival descriptions were carried out by means of Archimista 3.1.1 software, now available on the open source ArchiVista 3.1.0 platform Web, performing the editing of archival databases coming from Archimista software.

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