Project Status: Ongoing

Ongoing project to collect Latin texts written in Italy during the Middle Ages. The holdings are divided between literary (e.g. hagiography, philosophy, sermons, chronicles) and documentary (e.g. town statutes, papal bulls) works, and can be searched or browsed by period, location, author, genre, prose, or verse. Each item includes the edition from which the text was taken, and preserves original pagination.

Resource details:

Resource Type: Text: Medieval

License: No Fee

Modern Language: Italian

Medieval content details:

Dates: 700 - 1500

Subject: Clergy, Courtly Love, Education, Universities, Government, History, Law, Medicine, Nobility, Gentry, Philosophy, Theology, Political Thought, Towns, Cities

Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Accounts, Allegorical, Biography, Memoirs, Chronicles, Annals, Comedy, Satire, Didactic, Legislation, Letters, Petitions, Literature, Medical Works, Prose, Religious Texts, Rules, Sermons, Orations, Textual Evidence, Treatises, Verse

Geopolitical Region: Italy

Current texts are primarily from Southern Italy (Calabria, Campania, Puglia), as well as some from Tuscany.

Original Language: Latin

Medieval Creators: Paulinus II of Aquileia, Valla, Lorenzo, Martinus de Fano, Boncompagno da Signa, Alberic of Monte Cassino, Huguccio, Guarino, Battista, Jacopone da Todi, Barzizza, Gasparino, Thomas of Celano, Salimbene da Parma, Peter Damian, Petrarch, Paul the Deacon, Jacobus de Voragine, Joachim of Fiore, Giovanni di Plano Carpini, Giles of Rome, Gregory IX, Dante Alighieri, Boccaccio, Giovanni, Bruni, Leonardo, Clare of Assisi, Anselm of Canterbury, Alexander of Telese, Aretino, Leonardo Bruni, Albertano da Brescia

Quite a lot of minor authors - should they be entered into the list? Also missing some major authors: Poggio Bracciolini, Remigio Girolami