Italian Culture Resources

The Decameron Web

A web of Boccaccio's life and works developed at Brown University.

Boccaccio, Richard Hooker's course materials

Introduction to Boccaccio and The Decameron, "The Death," from The Decameron, and "Ser Ciapelletto," from The Decameron

Renaissance Dante Exhibition

Collaborative Online Project of U. Notre Dame Library and the Newberry Library, Chicago.

Florence: Online Catasto of 1427

A World Wide Web searchable version of tax data for the city of Florence in 1427-29, based on David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Principal Investigators, Census and Property Survey of Florentine Dominions in the Province of Tuscany, 1427-1480.

The Citizen's Gallery of Spello:  Art and Architecture

The town of Spello in Umbria maintains this page which samples the art and architecture of this medieval town.

Sandro Botticelli Image directory

History of medieval Italy

Includes links to information on different Italian regions.

I normanni nel Sud

The history of the Normans in Italy

Medioevo Italiano

Medieval Italian culture and language

Italian manuscripts

Images and descriptions of bibles, missals, lectionaries, graduals, antiphonals and psalters from a great selection of medieval western Europe manuscripts; Images of vellum leaves of Italian religious medieval manuscripts as well as from Livy's history of Rome.

Medieval Churches

Images and short descriptions of medieval churches (facades as well as interior) in Italy as well as in other countries of Western Europe

Torrione Castle

Includes images, descriptions, and history of the medieval complex of the Torrione Castle

Vatican Library Exhibit: Rome Reborn

One of the best World Wide Web projects, hosted by Sunsite, UNC.

De flore dietarum

Medical School of Salerno, Italy (from Madrilen manuscript), with Latin text, Italian version, Preface and Vocabulary.

The Churches of Umbria

General Internet Resources: Italy and Italian Language

Italian Resources on the Internet

Italian Language Resources in the WWW Virtual Library

Italian Lessons via the Web: Lessons by Lucio Chiappetti

Universities in Italy

The Italian Index at Brigham Young University, a database of scholarly sites organized by time period (including early, middle,

          and late middle ages and humanism) and topic.