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Pathfinder to Online Resources
Pre-Modern History -Renaissance Report
To access online (with hotlinks!): Navigate from the Library webpage >Annenberg
Upper School Library >Curriculum Links >History
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Annenberg/CPB Online exhibits – Renaissance. Includes: Introduction; Out of the
Middle Ages; Exploration and Trade; Printing and thinking; Symmetry, shape, size;
Focus on Florence; Related Resources [weblinks]. Includes hands-on activities. http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy – Historical Document
Essays on: “The State as a Work of Art; The Development of the Individual; The Revival of Antiquity; The Discovery of the World and of Man; Society and Festivals; Morality and Religion” http://www.boisestate.edu/courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/burckhardt.html
Companion page gives an overview of the author as the man who created the modern conception of the Renaissance. “His work is the starting point for all interpretations of the
Renaissance.” http://history.boisestate.edu/hy309/historiography/10.html
Renaissance – Elizabethan England
Includes heraldry, maps, costume, music, and literature, and material dedicated to the works of Shakespeare. Transcriptions of the trials of the Earls of Sussex and
Southampton for treason in 1601 are also available. http://renaissance.dm.net/
Renaissance Secrets
“Site explores four mysteries--one concerning Venice, one about medical patients in
Renaissance Italy, one about a conspiracy to poison Queen Elizabeth I, and one about
Gutenberg--from an historian's point of view. http://www.open2.net/renaissance2/
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture
Detailed descriptions of the Library of Vatican treasures and commentary on aspects of
Renaissance culture: Archaeology, Humanism, Mathematics, Music, Medicine, Nature,
Orient to Rome and Rome to Orient. http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/toc.html
Virtual Renaissance: A Journey Through Time.
Renaissance "characters" describe their lives and access a wide list of links on a host of
Renaissance topics such as clothing, food, and architecture. http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/VirtualRen.html

Web Museum: La Renaissance : Italy
An overview of the Italian Renaissance focusing on art and artists. Links to information on and images by the major artists. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/renaissance/it.html
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Art History Resources on the Web
Divided into time periods and artistic movements. Lists of museums and galleries and research resources are also included. http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture: Architectural History 102 “The images included in this collection were scanned from slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (ARH 102), University of
Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History.” http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/index.html
Tour: The Early Renaissance in Florence - Art
Overview and Images from a National Gallery of Art exhibition. http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg4/gg4-main1.html
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Exploring Leonardo
Includes biographical information, highlights some of Da Vinci's futuristic inventions, and introduces Renaissance techniques for representing the 3D world. http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
The Galileo Project
“A hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time.” Rice University, Houston. http://es.rice.edu:80/ES/humsoc/Galileo
Innovative Engineers of the Renaissance – Leonardo.
Institute and Museum of History of Science- Florence. Offers highlights of its collection of scientific instruments from the early Renaissance to the 19th century and access to online exhibits. Includes a virtual tour of Galileo's Room. http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/
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Humanistic Texts – Original texts of Pre-modern history writers.
Includes primary resources of Bacon, Chu His, Copernicus, Du Fu, Galileo, Machiavelli,
Petrarch, and Shakespeare. http://www.humanistictexts.org/

Literary Resources – Renaissance and Shakespeare
Guide to renaissance studies on the Internet. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ren.html
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
“Pictures and descriptions of manuscripts in the Saxon State Library, Dresden Germany.” http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dres1.html
Printing: Renaissance & Reformation -- An Exhibit.
Renaissance manuscripts from the early days of moveable-type printing. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/renprint/renprint.html
Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
Online version of an exhibition on Renaissance editions of Dante's 'La divina commedia.' http://www.nd.edu/~italnet/Dante/
Renaissance -- Literature Discussion of the influence of classicism on Renaissance thought and literature. Quotations. http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/renaissance.html
Sixteenth-Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
Biographical information, essays, articles and links to additional resources. http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/