Post by Khalid ibn Walid on Mar 25, 2006 17:55:49 GMT -5
Websites
Storia d'Italia - By far, the best Italian history website www.cronologia.it/2001cron.htm Detailed & invaluable (alas, only in Italian).
Antichità italiane by Ludovico Antonio Muratori (extremely scholarly and detailed analysis of Medieval Italian institutional structures)
Italy - Old Lombards
Paul the Deacon's History of the Langobards
Italy - the March
Storia di Verona
History of Padua ( Carraras, etc.)
The Da Camino (Treviso, etc.)
Waregame site focused on the Friulian March - incl. Ezzelino da Romano, & Friulian march geneology
Gonzaga of Mantua
Storia di Mantova
La Marca Gioiosa - historical novel set in Veronese march in the time of Ezzelino.
A bit more easterly:
Istria Cronologia
Another Istria timeline
History of Istria (Eng.)
Dizionario Friulano
Italy - Milan/Lombardy
Storia di Milano (great site:
see, esp. Chronologia & I Visconti
Personagge Milanese
A gallery of Renaissance rogues
J.C.L. Simonde Sismondi (1809-18) "Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age" Vol. I, Vol.
II (Sismondi is the classic history of the era of the Lombard communes. In French. Links are to a pdf fascimile edition at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France).
Renaissance in Italy: Vol. 1 - The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds (1888)
Soria di Crema
Federico II, Cremona, le cronache by Gabriele Zanella
Lombardy map
Der Staufen (German, picture-heavy)
Italy - Piedmont
Cronologia Ossolana - Novara, Novara, Novara.
Novaria - and yet more on Novara
Asti Antica - Asti, Asti, Asti
Blasonario Subalpino - Coats of Arms of practically everyone in Piemonte
Biandrate
Italy - Emilia
Dante & the Malaspina
Varzi Viva - the Malaspina again
Castle Sarzano
Italy - Naples
I Normanni nel Sud
Stupor Mundi - Emperor Fred II (in Italian)
Brief History of Italy (timeline, mostly Campania region; good)
Italy - Romagna & Papal States
Photoshoot of Italian Cistercian abbeys; other photoshoots: the churches of Ravenna , Bergamo, Padua
Condottieri di Ventura - great database of Renaissance mercenary captains.
Nobili familigia di Ravenna/Romagna (Polenta, Malatesta, etc.)
Popes & more Popes
Chronology of Papal History (light)
The Popes (w/portraits)
Cardinals & Bulls
Cardinals & more cardinals
Primary texts on Church-State relations
Churches of Rome: The Orsini family, The Colonna family
Castelli dei Lazio - database of castles in the Duchy of Rome.
Umbria Medieval
Italy - Tuscany
Florence timeline
The Medici
Terra di Toscana:
( Pisa, Volterra, Lucca, Florence, Arezzo, Leghorn, Piombino, Portoferraio (Elba), Massa, Carrara, Fosdinovo, Pistoia, Prato, Siena, Chiusi, Montelpulciano,etc.)
The Letters of Lorenzo di Medici (bio data on Ren guys)
Italy - Genoa
Centro Storico di Genova
Storia della Liguria
Italy - Venice
Virtual History of Venice
History of Venice
Outline of Venetian History
The Doges of Venice
Maps of Venice
Doge's Palace & Venetian government info at Musei Civici Veneziani
Medieval Resources more generally
Reti Mediavale - Fonti - excellent source of primary materials on the era of the communes.
Datasheet with some stuff on Italian offices
Primary Sources: Documents Illustrative of Feudalism
Holy Relics -- what & where they are
Medieval salutations & forms of address (mainly Italy-related)
Statutes of the Commune of Biella - interesting statutes of Italian guilds
Italian occupations (with English equivalents)
Medieval Italian names (or here; also Frankish names and Lombard names.
Oaths of officers in Medieval Ipswich
References (for names, arms, & other stuff.)
Italian dictionary
Dizionario di storia antica e medievale
Geneologie della dinastia Italiane - genealogy of great noble Italian families. Used it aplenty.
Bibiotecca Estense - old Italian roll of arms (iffy server)
Araldica Civica - Italian civic arms & gonfalons (click stemmi & go through there)
Italian civic heraldry (in English)
Italian women in history
Historical maps of Italian cities
Old maps of Italian cities (alas, renaissance & after)
Origine dei cognomi
(Bunch of Italian surname shields - doesn't seem very accurate)
Italian castle & tower index (by province)
Other sites of interest
Delle fanterie comunali italiane nel XIII secolo
I giuramenti collettivi di pace e alleanza nell'Italia comunale
Storia d'Italia - By far, the best Italian history website www.cronologia.it/2001cron.htm Detailed & invaluable (alas, only in Italian).
Antichità italiane by Ludovico Antonio Muratori (extremely scholarly and detailed analysis of Medieval Italian institutional structures)
Italy - Old Lombards
Paul the Deacon's History of the Langobards
Italy - the March
Storia di Verona
History of Padua ( Carraras, etc.)
The Da Camino (Treviso, etc.)
Waregame site focused on the Friulian March - incl. Ezzelino da Romano, & Friulian march geneology
Gonzaga of Mantua
Storia di Mantova
La Marca Gioiosa - historical novel set in Veronese march in the time of Ezzelino.
A bit more easterly:
Istria Cronologia
Another Istria timeline
History of Istria (Eng.)
Dizionario Friulano
Italy - Milan/Lombardy
Storia di Milano (great site:
see, esp. Chronologia & I Visconti
Personagge Milanese
A gallery of Renaissance rogues
J.C.L. Simonde Sismondi (1809-18) "Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age" Vol. I, Vol.
II (Sismondi is the classic history of the era of the Lombard communes. In French. Links are to a pdf fascimile edition at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France).
Renaissance in Italy: Vol. 1 - The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds (1888)
Soria di Crema
Federico II, Cremona, le cronache by Gabriele Zanella
Lombardy map
Der Staufen (German, picture-heavy)
Italy - Piedmont
Cronologia Ossolana - Novara, Novara, Novara.
Novaria - and yet more on Novara
Asti Antica - Asti, Asti, Asti
Blasonario Subalpino - Coats of Arms of practically everyone in Piemonte
Biandrate
Italy - Emilia
Dante & the Malaspina
Varzi Viva - the Malaspina again
Castle Sarzano
Italy - Naples
I Normanni nel Sud
Stupor Mundi - Emperor Fred II (in Italian)
Brief History of Italy (timeline, mostly Campania region; good)
Italy - Romagna & Papal States
Photoshoot of Italian Cistercian abbeys; other photoshoots: the churches of Ravenna , Bergamo, Padua
Condottieri di Ventura - great database of Renaissance mercenary captains.
Nobili familigia di Ravenna/Romagna (Polenta, Malatesta, etc.)
Popes & more Popes
Chronology of Papal History (light)
The Popes (w/portraits)
Cardinals & Bulls
Cardinals & more cardinals
Primary texts on Church-State relations
Churches of Rome: The Orsini family, The Colonna family
Castelli dei Lazio - database of castles in the Duchy of Rome.
Umbria Medieval
Italy - Tuscany
Florence timeline
The Medici
Terra di Toscana:
( Pisa, Volterra, Lucca, Florence, Arezzo, Leghorn, Piombino, Portoferraio (Elba), Massa, Carrara, Fosdinovo, Pistoia, Prato, Siena, Chiusi, Montelpulciano,etc.)
The Letters of Lorenzo di Medici (bio data on Ren guys)
Italy - Genoa
Centro Storico di Genova
Storia della Liguria
Italy - Venice
Virtual History of Venice
History of Venice
Outline of Venetian History
The Doges of Venice
Maps of Venice
Doge's Palace & Venetian government info at Musei Civici Veneziani
Medieval Resources more generally
Reti Mediavale - Fonti - excellent source of primary materials on the era of the communes.
Datasheet with some stuff on Italian offices
Primary Sources: Documents Illustrative of Feudalism
Holy Relics -- what & where they are
Medieval salutations & forms of address (mainly Italy-related)
Statutes of the Commune of Biella - interesting statutes of Italian guilds
Italian occupations (with English equivalents)
Medieval Italian names (or here; also Frankish names and Lombard names.
Oaths of officers in Medieval Ipswich
References (for names, arms, & other stuff.)
Italian dictionary
Dizionario di storia antica e medievale
Geneologie della dinastia Italiane - genealogy of great noble Italian families. Used it aplenty.
Bibiotecca Estense - old Italian roll of arms (iffy server)
Araldica Civica - Italian civic arms & gonfalons (click stemmi & go through there)
Italian civic heraldry (in English)
Italian women in history
Historical maps of Italian cities
Old maps of Italian cities (alas, renaissance & after)
Origine dei cognomi
(Bunch of Italian surname shields - doesn't seem very accurate)
Italian castle & tower index (by province)
Other sites of interest
Delle fanterie comunali italiane nel XIII secolo
I giuramenti collettivi di pace e alleanza nell'Italia comunale
