These internet links supplement A Short History of Renaissance Italy and are organized by chapter:
CHAPTER 1
Columbia University Digital Dante
University of Virginia The World of Dante
University of Texas Dante Worlds
Vittorio Gassman recites Canto I of the Inferno
Roberto Benigni recites Canto V of the Inferno
Wikimedia “Towers of Florence”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Italian Painting of the Later Middle Ages”
Ron Reznick Photos of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
Dante’s Inferno Test…Impurity, Sin…and Damnation
CHAPTER 2
Brown University Decameron Web
Pasolini’s film of the Decameron…the story of Andreuccio
BBC Radio 4 Broadcast “In Our Time” on the Black Death 22 May, 2008
John Lanchester “How the Little Ice Age Changed History,” The New Yorker, 3/25/2019
CHAPTER 3
Hanover Historical Texts Project – Petrarch
Project Gutenberg The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch
“In Provence, Honoring a Poet at 6,263 Feet” New York Times July 30, 2006
Leonardo Bruni’s Panegyric to the City of Florence
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “The Rediscovery of Classical Antiquity”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Architecture in Renaissance Italy”
Lorenzo Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise”
CHAPTER 4
Tesserae as time machine: 5th and 13th century mosaics in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Smart History
Fordham Medieval Sourcebook: Unam sanctam
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “The Papacy During the Renaissance”
Les Chapelles du Palais des Papes d’Avignon
“Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture” Library of Congress
Leon Battista Alberti On Painting
CHAPTER 5
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “The Birth and Infancy of Christ in Italian Painting”
Project Gutenberg Letters of Catherine of Siena
Intratext The Dialogue of the Serafic Virgin Catherine of Siena
Maria Lactans: Mary as a Nursing Mother
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Paintings of Love and Marriage in the Italian Renaissance”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Weddings in the Italian Renaissance”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Nuptial Furnishings in the Italian Renaissance”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Birth and the Family in the Italian Renaissance”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Courtship and Betrothal in the Italian Renaissance”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Art and Love in Renaissance Italy”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Domestic Art in Renaissance Italy”
CHAPTER 6
Milan Cathedral Google Arts & Culture
Official Site of the Duomo of Milan
Official Site of the Castello Sforzesco
Internet Archive Janet Ross Lives of the Early Medici As Told in Their Correspondence
Medici Family Tree by Becky Daroff
PBS The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Ron Reznick Photos of the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence
CHAPTER 7
Villa Romana del Casale Official Site
Jeff Matthews’s Naples: Life, Death & Miracles
“Stupor Mundi” site dedicated to Frederick II
Per-Erik Skramstad “The Wonders of Sicily”
Ancient History of Sicily on Livius.org
Project Gutenberg Itineraries of Benjamin Tudela
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Music in the Renaissance”
Metropolitan Museum of Art “Antonello da Messina”
CHAPTER 8
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Northern Italian Renaissance Painting”
“Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting”
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Titian: Women, Myth & Power
Elizabeth Gleason Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and Reform, University of California Press, 1993
Venice Doge’s Palace, Google Arts & Culture
CHAPTER 9
The Pico Project, Brown University
Oration on the Dignity of Man, translated by A. Robert Caponigri (Chicago: Regnery Publishing, 1956)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Pico in English: A Bibliography Compiled by M. V. Dougherty
3D Reconstruction of 1470s “Chain Map of Florence”
“Chain Map of Florence” Google Arts & Culture
CHAPTER 10
Constitution Society. Liberty Library of Constitution Classics Selected Works of Niccolò Machiavelli
Quentin Skinner on The Prince, interview on Philosophy Bites Podcast
Francesco Guicciardini Maxims and Reflections of a Renaissance Statesman
Savonarola Selected Writings, ed. Borelli,Passaro, Beebe
Condottieri di Ventura War Captains and Mercenary Leaders operating in Italy between 1330 and 1550
CHAPTER 11
Stanford University website dedicated to The Vitruvian Man
From the exhibition of the Leicester codex of Leonardo’s notebooks
Internet Archive Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks McCurdy edition
University of Virginia Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting
Stanford Digital Michelangelo Project
Cavallini to Veronese: A guide to the works of the major Italian Renaissance Painters
Becky Daroff’s Art Revealed “Raphael Rooms”
Vatican Museums Official Website
Palazzo Farnesina Raphael’s frescoes
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “The Papacy and the Vatican Palace”
CHAPTER 12
Open Library Francesco Guicciardini The History of Italy translated by Austin Parke Goddard, 1763
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Profane Love and Erotic Art in the Italian Renaissance
Baldassare Castiglione The Courtier
Pathways through Literature – Ariosto
CHAPTER 13
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Mannerism: Bronzino and his contemporaries”
Project Gutenberg Autobigraphy of Benvenuto Cellini Symonds translation
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Bronze Sculpture in the Renaissance”
Fordham Medieval Sourcebook Vasari Lives of the Artists, selections
The Decrees of the Council of Trent
CHAPTER 14
Gutenberg Project Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered in James Fairfax’s 1600 translation
University of Chicago: Italian Women Writers
Judith Chaffee’s Commedia dell’Arte Website
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice”
Caravaggio Foundation “Caravaggio The Complete Works”
CHAPTER 15
Modern History Sourcebook: Index librorum prohibitorum, 1557-1966
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy “Tommaso Campanella”
Perseus Project Lucretius De rerum natura
Northwestern University “Vesalius De humani corporis fabrica”
Metropolitan Museum of Art “Anatomy in the Renaissance”
Galileo Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, translated by Stillman Drake
Modern History Sourcebook “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany”
“The Trial of Galileo” Doug Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas Law School
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