Under the title "Storia d’Ungheria – History of Hungary," the Fraknói Research Group and the Moravcsik Gyula Institute are launching a new international book series, published by Edizioni Sette Cittá in Viterbo. The primary goal of the series is to publish the results of their own fundamental research and the findings of Hungarian historiography, art and literary history, as well as Italian-Hungarian relations, in either Italian or English. The secondary goal is to publish historical works related to Hungary exclusively in Italian, which may be of interest in Italy.
The editors of the series are Matteo Sanfilippo and Péter Tusor. The editorial board members are Alessandro Boccolini, Tamás Fedeles, Viktor Kanász, Gaetano Platania, Giovanni Pizzorusso, and Kornél Szovák. The launch of this new international Italian series in Hungarian historiography is linked to the Fraknói centenary (1924-2024). The first volume will be published on the occasion of the commemorative conference in Rome on June 6 (Protagonisti e collaboratori. Studiosi provenienti dall'Europa centro-orientale presso gli archivi della Santa Sede tra il 1881 e il 1918, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani). The Viterbo-based Storia d'Ungheria, alongside the Vienna-based Publikationen der Ungarischen Geschichtsforschung in Wien, is the second foreign publication series in which the Fraknói Research Group has played a key role.
The forthcoming volume (Vilmos Fraknói’s Heritage in Rome. The Hungarian Historical Research in the Vatican) presents Hungarian historical research conducted in Vatican and various Roman and Italian collections from its inception to the present day. The monograph details the different periods of research history from the Baroque era through the positivism period to the end of the 20th century, with a glimpse into the 21st century as well. Its primary source material is found among the documents in the manuscript archive of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This historiography diagnoses the significant problems of the Hungarian scientific presence in Rome compared to other Western European projects and institutes. The narrative focuses on Bishop Vilmos Fraknói, who passed away a century ago in 1924, and his legacy. The appendix contains official documents from the Roman notarial archive based on which the ownership of the Fraknói villa was registered in favor of the Hungarian state—solely and exclusively for the purposes of a historical institute.
The printed version of the first volume of Storia d’Ungheria – History of Hungary can be ordered from the publisher and is available for download as an e-book here.