The repository for the public records and archives of the Italian city of Florence. It was founded 20 February 1852 by a decree of the Grand Duke Leopoldo II di Toscana, located until 1989 in the Uffizi, was then locaded in a new building near Piazza Beccaria in Florence. It has 75 km of documents from VIII sec. to now. Staff have included Gaetano Milanesi among others.