The documentation directly concerning the relationship between Buccino and the D’Alemagna family, barons and then counts of Buccino from 1292 al 1467, it is very scarce.

The finding of any news is therefore extremely valuable, even minimal. Even more if by chance.

This is what happened for the statutes that Count Giorgio d'Alemagna granted in 1466 at the University of Buccino.

There was news, indeed, of the existence of statutes granted by the same count to the Buccinese community during the fifteenth century, preserved by the scholar Giuseppe Arduino, but they are still unpublished: only the header and a few steps are known, published by the same scholar respectively in his traveling Volceianum (Torino 2015, p. 201) and in an old article (He made this clear source, in "The Wise", I/5 [1996], p. 9).

It was not known, instead, the existence of new chapters released by Count Giorgio in 1466.

Unfortunately their rediscovery is only virtual.

Indeed, we found the imperfect reproduction of the only initial sheet of the statutes inserted as an example in a well-known article dedicated by Leopoldo Cassese, unforgettable director of the State Archives of Salerno, aThe administration of common meridionali during the Spanish viceroyalty (L. Cassese, The administration of the Municipalities of the South in the viceregal age, in “Civil administration”, Roma, 1958, p. 46).

Unfortunately, the author does not report any caption that allows us to trace the location of the document. We can only deduce that it comes from the funds of the Salerno State Archives - and is still preserved there -, of which Cassese was the director.

A back notation affixed in pen (fol. 3 etc.) suggests that this is a back copy made for a legal dispute, presumably one of many lawsuits filed for about 500 years between the universities of Buccino and S. Gregory the Great for state matters.

We report here to future memory the reproduction contained in the article and the transcription of the most important parts visible from it.

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1466 – Statutes granted by Giorgio d'Alemagna

The text is as follows:

Capitula (?), statutes and municipal array has also been confirmed

Pulcini are in favor of land along the entirety of its grapes possexorum

seminatoriarum and others? ... and damage to demenificantes

In the same year, bringing the one thousand four hundred and sixtieth-

foremost on the fifteenth day of August in the kingdom of fourteen Inditione(n)to?

ill(affairs)mo d(omi)no n(ost)ro excellent and useful to the Lord, George King Ferdinand

of [But]Manea election of those lands Pulcini. Cassis, The origin and annul'd any of the articles ..., Statutes and Ordinances […]

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