Medieval Italian

Boccaccio

• Decameron Web–provides open access to the text of Boccaccio’s Decameron in Italian and in English translation (1902), plus a concordance. Scholarship on the plague, social history, literature, religion,; also visual art and maps. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/index.php

 

Dante

• The Leeds Centre for Dante Studies Podcast – can be subscribed to freely from anywhere in the world. The podcast is designed both to enrich undergraduates’ study of Dante, and to be of interest to a broader audience. The Leeds Dante podcast will offer regular short items on three major areas; a series of brief commentaries on short passages selected from the Commedia; interviews with scholars about their recent work on Dante; and reviews of recent publications of interest in Dante studies http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/cdspodcast.htm

• World of Dante– open access; multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text, which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations. Many of these features allow users to engage the poem dynamically through the integrated components of this site http://www.worldofdante.org

 

Petrarch, Francis

• British Library — “The Winchester Anthology” includes the work of Petrarch. Digitized manuscript available without charge. http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_60577
• De remediis ultriusque fortunae — digitized manuscript available free by Parker Library. http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/parker/actions/page_turner.do?ms_no=40
• De vita et gestis Scipionis p’mi Affricani — open access provided free by Harvard University Library. http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/8363427
• Digital Scriptorium — a portal to digitized copies of Petrarch’s manuscripts accessible to the public for free by various institutions. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/digitalscriptorium/petrarch/petrarch_images.html
• The Fiske Petrarch Collection, Cornell Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) — holds a collection of Petrarch’s manuscripts, available on site only. For a catalog of manuscripts see: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/medieval_calkins.pdf
• Francesco Petrarch & Laura de Noves — a website containing pictures, writing, books, papers, audio recordings, and events related to Petrarch and Laura. Free, open access. http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/
• The Geoffrey Chaucer Page — selected translations of Petrarch’s texts available online for free. http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/petrarch/
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University — translations of Petrarch’s texts available without cost:
  • Letters: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/petrarch1.asp
  • The Ascent of Mount Ventoux: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/petrarch-ventoux.asp

• Letters to Classical Authors — digitized translation available for free at Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/petrarchsletters00petruoft
• The Oregon Open Book Project — digitized copies of Ettore Modigliani’s diplomatic edition of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta; Gianfranco Contini’s and Giuseppe Savoca’s critical editions; the cod. Queriniano D II 21; the Inc. Queriniano G V 15; Alessandro Vellutello’s commentary; complete English, Spanish and French translations. Open, free access. http://petrarch.uoregon.edu/rvf
• Yale University
  • Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library — holds a Petrarchan letter on Laura. Digital preview available; the entire manuscript only available in the Library. http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3435129
  • Bibliography of web and print materials relating to Petrarch, some in Italian. http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/petrarch/biblio.html