Via dei Curiali takes its name from the curiales, also known as notarii, a rather elitist collegium of intellectuals, repository of the rules of customary law and the formulary taken from Justinian law.
The oldest attestations written in Amalfi the curiale provide important indications on the political organisation and social-economic life of medieval Amalfi. The typical original Amalfi curial script was characterised by small shapes, long strokes and ornamental swirls, and was used to write the legal documents that the growing commercial and social transactions required. Becoming less and less comprehensible with time, it was banned by Frederick II in 1220.
