Rinascimento

Compiled by Gregory Hanlon

"The Italian Academies Themed Collection provides a detailed searchable database for locating printed material relating to the Italian learned Academies active in Avellino, Bari, Benevento, Bologna, Brindisi, Caltanissetta, Catania, Catanzaro, Enna, L’Aquila, Lecce, Mantua, Naples, Padua, Palermo, Rome, Salerno, Siena, Syracuse, Trapani, and Venice in the period 1525-1700 and now held in the collections of the British Library."

"Cities in Text: Rome explores the complex and historic layers of the Eternal City through the study of guided tours from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries presented in both a website and mobile application."

Archivi del Rinascimento è un aggregatore di risorse elettroniche relative alla civiltà del Rinascimento italiano.

La città del duca: Milano 1450 - 1499

Database on documents regarding the construction of the Florentine dome.

"Fino ai primi decenni del XX secolo chi nasceva a Firenze aveva un solo luogo in cui ricevere il primo sacramento: il Battistero di San Giovanni Battista. Ciò rende estremamente preziosi i libri, tuttora conservati all’archivio dell’Opera di S. Maria del Fiore, in cui sono registrati i nomi di tutti coloro che, a partire dal 1450, furono battezzati nell’antica chiesa ottagonale, dedicata al santo patrono: si tratta infatti di una fonte insostituibile per stabilire date di nascita, nomi di genitori e nonni, area di residenza e altri elementi anagrafici sui fiorentini vissuti fra il Rinascimento e il nostro tempo."

"The word ‘decima’ translates literally to ‘one tenth’ in Latin and Italian. The DECIMA Project takes its name from the 1561 decima tax, a 10% property value tax. DECIMA is also an acronym that stands for the Digitally Encoded Census Information & Mapping Archive."

"Florence As It Was is a digital reconstruction of the city that allows you to review, inspect, tour, and visit the streets, palaces, churches, shops, and offices that formed the fabric of one of Europe’s most vibrant cities. Here you will find images, people, payments, relationships, literary references, contemporary descriptions, and sometimes even music related to the individual structures that shaped a Florentine’s daily experience in 1492 – a year marked by monumental changes in the city and throughout Europe as a whole."

"Discover our urban-scale mapping and modelling platform to experience the potential of new digital technologies to transform how we study Renaissance Florence, contextualizing artworks within an evolving urban environment and through its immensely rich social and cultural record."

Digitalized old books, manuscripts, music scores, photographs from the Biblioteca Nacional of Spain.

State Archives online with lots of digitalized documents.

The MGH was founded in 1819 and provides one of the most prestigious editorial undertakings for the critical publication of medieval historical texts. The database provides full search access to the over 300 volumes in the major series, the Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae and Antiquitates, and 33 sub-series of the MGH.

The aim of the project is to systematically investigate the unpublished archival records of Dubrovnik’s three governing bodies (Great Council, Minor Council and the Senate) from the first half of the 15th century in order to select, gather, interpret and publish data concerning changes of urban spaces and buildings.

Mapping Eastern Europe is a platform intended to promote study, teaching, and research about Eastern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries through historical overviews, case-studies of monuments and objects, ongoing projects, as well as reviews of books and exhibitions.