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Database of Italian Academies

Database of Italian Academies

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.

Correspondence of Athanasius Kircher

Correspondence of Athanasius Kircher

The Athanasius Kircher correspondence project provides access to the manuscript correspondence of Kircher, a seventeenth-century Jesuit. The project is a collaboration between the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence, the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and the European University Institute in Fiesole, under the direction of Michael John Gorman and Nick Wilding; it is now housed at Stanford University.

The Archeology of Reading

The Archeology of Reading

The Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe (AOR) uses digital technologies to enable the systematic exploration of the historical reading practices of Renaissance scholars nearly 450 years ago. This is possible through AOR’s corpus of thirty-six fully digitized and searchable versions of early printed books filled with tens of thousands of handwritten notes, left by two of the most dedicated readers of the early modern period: John Dee and Gabriel Harvey.

Humanistica Cordvbensia

http://www.uco.es/humcor/

Hvmanistica Cordvbensia is coordinated by Julián Solana Pujalte, Área de Filología Latina de la Universidad de Córdoba. It includes the following: Bibliotheca Erasmiana Hispanica: Erasmo en las bibliotecas españolas actuales e históricas. Genesivs: Estudios sobre la obra de Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1490–1573) y el humanismo renacentista. Cvm Privilegio: Libros, bibliotecas y lecturas en Córdoba en la Edad Moderna.

An Incipitarium of Funeral Orations and a Smattering of Other Panegyrical Literature from the Italian Renaissance (ca. 1350–1550).

The database, in PDF form, contains manuscript and printed copies of funeral orations and a few other orations. It is arranged alphabetically by incipit.