Italy

These links connect to Western European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible. These open access sources are readily available to all -- without fees or subscriptions.

Contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web.

This list is dedicated to the research and development of Italian personas. It shall be used for sharing ideas, research and building a strong bond between those in the SCA with Italian personas.

Women's property had no visible existence in medieval Tuscany. Husbands controlled largely the properties brought to them as dowries by their wives. It was generally considered that female administration of property would ineluctably diminish or even destroy it. Therefore, the metonymic images of the trousseau or a pouch were used as iconographic equivalents of the dowry and other female properties. This choice reveals that artists consciously conferred an abstract character to women's riches.

A reference site for Italy in the Middle Ages, with a mailing list on medieval Italian history, arts, and culture.

A site on Savoy, featuring several articles on its history.

Designed for use by members of the SCA who portray an Italian persona (from courtesan to merchant, from Firenze to Roma). Open to all SCAdians, this list is to help share research and other valuable information about Italian life in Medieval and Renaissance times.

The archive of the Medici Grand Dukes is one of the greatest yet least known Medici monuments. Establishe d by Grand Duke Cosimo I in 1569, it offers the most complete record of any princely regime in Renaissanc e and Baroque Europe. Since this Archive consists mostly of letters (nearly three million filling a full kilometer of shelf-spac e), it offers an incomparab le panorama of two-hundre d years of human history, as told in the words of the people most immediatel y involved. However, this unique documentar y resource has never been catalogued and indexed, nor microfilme d and accessed by electronic means. Only now, with The Medici Archive Project, is it fulfilling its potential to revolution ize our understand ing of the past.

History of the Norman world; culture and civilisati on in the Norman world; archaeolog ical and artistic heritage; and architectu ral heritage.