History of the Bilotti bequest

Bilotti left his private archive to the Salerno State Archives upon his death.
The archive consists of seven envelopes, four of which contain documents relating to his professional and political activities during the period in which he was director of the State Archive and another three contain the minutes of the graphic reports he wrote for a fiduciary mandate from the Salerno Court.
Among Bilotti’s documents were also found correspondence, circulars and accounting documents, for a total of three envelopes, relating to the Pisacane Masonic Lodge, produced between 1918 and 1926.

He also left to the State Archives a rich collection of coins and a collection of books mainly consisting of 19th and 20th century works on the history of Naples and the south. Of particular note in the bibliographical fund is the conspicuous presence of volumes on numismatic subjects, from a five-hundred-year-old by Costanzo Landi to the classic works of Mionnet and Sambon.

Of considerable interest for the documentation of Salerno’s publishing production at the beginning of the 20th century is the minor material, mainly consisting of pamphlets.

P. E. Bilotti, disegni di tipi monetali ( © MIC, Archivio di Stato di Salerno, Fondo Bilotti, b. 14, c. 80r.: dettaglio).