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Great City-states of the Renaissance

Rank selected Italian city-states in order of their influence in shaping a Renaissance worldview.


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Title: Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Description: This six-volume encyclopedia includes nearly 1200 articles on the Renaissance as a period in history and as a cultural movement. The emphasis is on humanism and social conditions.
Author/Editor: Grendler, Paul F., ed.
Published by: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999

 

Title: Out of the Middle Ages
Host: Annenberg Media, Learner.org
Description: This website contains information about the end of the Middle Ages and the rise of the middle class and city-states.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to access information. Click on Read more about the new middle class and the resurgence of cities at the bottom of the screen to access additional information. Click on topics in the left-hand-side menu to access additional information.
URL:

http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/middleages.html

 

Title: The Italian Renaissance
Host: SchoolHistory.co.uk
Description: This website contains an article about the Italian Renaissance. Review questions for students follow the article.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to access complete text and images.
URL: http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year8links/other/renaissance.pdf

 

Title: Chapter 3: The Italian City-States of the Renaissance
Host: European University Institute
Description: This website contains a chapter from an E-Book that gives background on the Renaissance and the evolution of the Italian City States. Detailed information is provided about the City States of Milan, Venice, Florence, Naples and Sicily.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to access text. Click on links at the bottom of the screen to access additional chapters.
URL: http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/03.html

 

Title: The End of Europe's Middle Ages: Italy’s City-States
Host: University of Calgary via the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Description: This website contains an article about the emergence of Italian city-states and includes maps, images and a glossary.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to access complete text and images. Click on highlighted terms within the text to access additional information and a glossary of terms. Click on the map to view it in larger format.
URL: http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Courses/Phil%20281b/Philosophy%20of%20Magic/Dante.%20etc/Philosophers/End/FRAMES/cityframe.html

 

Title:

The Medici Family 1: The Glorious 1400’s

Host:

Adrian Fletcher, Paradoxplace

Description:

This website contains information about the Medici family members who lived from 1360 to 1537, as well as portraits, paintings and photographs of artifacts.

Navigation Tips:

Scroll down to access text and images. Click on underlined terms within the text to access additional information. Click on a name in the chart near the top of the screen to go directly to the information and additional links related to that individual.

URL:

http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Italian%20Images/Montages/Firenze/Medici%201.htm

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