This volume publishes papal documents concerning the diocese and episcopal principality of Trent, the majority from archives in Trent, but some from other local archives. It complements Documenti papali per la storia trentina (fino at 1341), ed. E. Curzel (Bologna 2004), which is based on the papal registers in the Vatican Archives. The earliest surviving document is a solemn privilege of Alexander iii of 1177, and the last pontificate included is that of Boniface viii. Of the seventy-four documents published, forty-one survive in the original, while the remainder exist in medieval or later copies. Fourteen documents are known only from transcripts by the eighteenth-century scholar Giangrisostomo Tovazzi. All the documents are printed in full, except for those already published in Le pergamene dell'Archivio della Prepositura di Trento (1154–1297), ed. E. Curzel, S. Gentilini and G. M. Varanini (Bologna 2004). About half the documents concern the abbess and convent of Minoresses known as the ‘pauperes domine’ of San Michele of the Order of St Damian. The introduction refers to the censimento of original papal documents of the years 1198–1417 proposed by Franco Bartoloni. One of the main aims of the censimento is to improve our knowledge of the papal chancery, in particular by recording the chancery marks which occur on the documents and which reflect the process by which they were issued. Here the editor's work cannot be counted a success: this evidence is not assessed in the introduction, is inadequately recorded in the descriptions of the documents and is not indexed. One of the main reasons for the defects appears to be the failure to compare the annotations with those which occur in other publications, even though many of the more substantial of the latter are cited in the introduction. For example, the scribal signature on no. 67 is reproduced as follows: ‘D. (lettura incerta) laud (con segno abbreviativo)’; but the scribe must be ‘O. Laud.’ or Odo Laudensis (see B. Barbiche, Les Actes pontificaux originaux des Archives nationales de Paris, ii, Vatican City 1978, 516). The editor's interest appears to be in local, rather than papal, history, but her discussion of the contents of the letters in the introduction would have been improved by a better understanding of the procedures and conventions of the papal curia. Such an understanding would no doubt have prevented her calling a letter of Alexander iv appointing the prior of the Dominicans of Trent as a judge delegate in a dispute between the abbess and convent of the Order of St Damian, on the one hand, and the canons of Trent, on the other, a ‘lettera di condanna’ (p. 46). The present edition is therefore something of a missed opportunity. None the less, Eccher has performed a valuable service in assembling the documents, in transcribing them carefully (bar a few misprints), and in providing references to earlier editions and calendars.