LIBRARY GUIDE TO Renaissance History Pathfinder

• The Italian Renaissance State (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (Renaissance Society of America, 1999)
• Thames and Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance
• The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy
• The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance
• The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism

Cambridge Companions and Cambridge Histories Online contain other volumes on the Renaissance.

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MelCat
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•   Early English Books Online
  Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
• Europeana
  A digital library of over 30 million items, from European museums, galleries, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (UCLA)
• Digital Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (Harvard)
• British Library Digitized Manuscripts
• Bodleian First Folio (digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays)
• Renaissance Electronic Texts
• Early Moden Philosophy electronic texts
• Luminarium: 16th Century Renaissance English Literature
• The Medici Archive Project
• Petrarch’s Familiar Letters
• The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance by Jacob Burckhardt (Translated by S. G. C. Middlemore, 1878)
• Historical Maps of Europe
• Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Forster notebooks

See also

• Renaissance Society of America resources: a growing list of digital resources in Renaissance studies
• Digital Editions English Renaissance Drama (bibliography compiled by Brett D. Hirsch following the Folger Institute's 2013 Early Modern Digital Agendas institute)
• bibliography of the Massachusetts Center for Interdisplinary Renaissance Studies

H-Italy - Good for discussions and book reviews.

Aestimatio: critical book reviews on the history of science

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