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For the recent macroseismic practice, such edifices are not statistically representative when used for assessing macroseismic intensity; instead, the information about residential housing provides reliable data especially when using the European Macroseismic Scale 1998. In this work, we show that useful information regarding the ordinary residential stock can be retrieved in the bureaucratic documentation, apparently distant from the repertoires traditionally used for historical seismology studies. In particular, we used administrative acts granted by the government of Rome to authorize maintenance works on the external parts of the buildings, namely the \u201cLettere Patenti.\u201d The scrutiny of these sources allowed us to enrich the available dataset introducing 93 new damage points found on civil building stock spread in the historic center of Rome. The new dataset contributes to better define the picture of the effects of the 1703 seismic sequence in Rome, which allowed us to assess macroseismic intensity with more confidence.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1785\/0220200046","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,14]],"date-time":"2020-05-14T01:16:12Z","timestamp":1589418972000},"page":"2511-2519","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["How Historical Seismology Can Benefit from Bureaucracy: The Case of the \u201cLettere Patenti\u201d in the City of Rome in 1703"],"prefix":"10.1785","volume":"91","author":[{"given":"Andrea","family":"Tertulliani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy"}]},{"given":"Laura","family":"Graziani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy"}]},{"given":"Alessandro","family":"Esposito","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy"},{"name":"Now at Rome, Italy"}]}],"member":"790","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"2020090215490592300_rf1","first-page":"52","article-title":"Earthquake sequences of the last millennium in L'Aquila and surrounding regions (central Italy)","author":"Amato","year":"2011","journal-title":"Terra Nova"},{"key":"2020090215490592300_rf2","volume-title":"Veridica, e distinta Relazione overo diario de\u2019 danni fatti dal Terremoto dalli 14 Gennaro, fino alli 2 di Febraro 1703","author":"Anonymous","year":"1703"},{"key":"2020090215490592300_rf3","article-title":"Relatione del terremoto sentitosi in Roma, e luoghi circonvicini, ed in Regno di Napoli, li giorni del 14 15 e 16 Mese di Gennaro 1703 con li Luoghi, e Paesi danneggiati","author":"Anonymous","year":"1703"},{"key":"2020090215490592300_rf4","volume-title":"Relazione distinta de\u2019 danni cagionati da\u2019 passati Tremuoti nel Regno di Napoli e nello Stato di Santa Chiesa in quest\u2019Anno 1703","author":"Anonymous","year":"1703"},{"key":"2020090215490592300_rf5","volume-title":"Presidenza delle strade","author":"Archivio di Stato di Roma (ASR)","year":"1700\u20131710)"},{"key":"2020090215490592300_rf6","first-page":"566","article-title":"De progressione Romani terraemotus a Kalendis Martiis anni MDCCIII ad Kalendas Martias anni MDCCV","volume-title":"Opera omnia medico-pratica, et anatomica","author":"Baglivi","year":"1710"},{"key":"2020090215490592300_rf7","first-page":"265","article-title":"De Terraemotu Romano and Urbium Adjacentium anno 1703","volume-title":"Opera omnia medico-pratica, et anatomica","author":"Baglivi","year":"1754"},{"key":"2020090215490592300_rf8","first-page":"83","article-title":"Neotectonic investigations and evidence of paleoseismicity in the epicentral area of the January-February 1703 Central Italy earthquakes","volume-title":"Perspectives in Paleoseismology","author":"Blumetti","year":"1995"},{"key":"2020090215490592300_rf9","first-page":"187","article-title":"Scritture del disastro e istanze di riforma nel Regno di Napoli (1783) alle origini delle politiche dell\u2019emergenza","author":"Cecere","year":"2017","journal-title":"Studi Storici"},{"key":"2020090215490592300_rf10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"443","DOI":"10.1016\/S0264-3707(97)00051-3","article-title":"The crustal fault structure responsible for the 1703 earthquake sequence of central Italy","author":"Cello","year":"1998","journal-title":"J. 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