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Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Selected Sources: Italy

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• South Italy
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• See section on the Renaissance

• WEB REGESTA IMPERII (715-1519) [Internet Archive backup here]
  A chronologically record all activities evidenced by documents or anything else of the Roman-German kings and emperors.
• Eugippius (c. 460 –c. 535): Life of Saint Severinus of Noricum (c.410-482). [At Tertullian] [Internet Archive version here]
• The Placiti of Capua, 960. [Wikisource]
  The first documents of what became the Italian language [See Wikipedia article].
• Bartolus of Sassoferrato: On the Tyrant, c.1330, trans. Steve Lane on tyranny in Italian city government.
• Bartolus of Saxoferrato: On the Tyrant  [rev. 1.2], c. 1330, trans. by Jonathan Robinson PDF file [Toronto] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Bartolus of Saxoferrato: On Guelfs and Ghibellines [rev. 1.0a], trans. by Jonathan Robinson PDF file [Toronto] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Bartolus of Saxoferrato: On the Government of a City  [rev. 1.1] trans. by Jonathan Robinson PDF file [Toronto] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Bartolus of Saxoferrato: On the Tyrant   [rev. 1.2] trans. by Jonathan Robinson PDF file [Toronto] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Tolomeo Fiadoni (Ptolemy of Lucca)(?): On the Origin, Translation, and State of the Roman Empire (c.1308)  [rev. 1.0] trans. by Jonathan Robinson PDF file [Toronto] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Salimbene de Adam: Bologna against Faenza and Forli in 1275 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Salimbene de Adam: Warfare between Reggio and Gesso in 1287 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Filippo Villani: Description of English soldiers in Italy by Filippo Villani [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Emperor Charles IV: Warfare in Italy, 1332-3, according to Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Luca Landucci (1450-1516): Warfare in Fifteenth-Century Italy, according to a Florentine merchant [Internet Archive version here]
• Alessandro Beneditti: The Battle of Fornovo (1495) [Internet Archive version here]

• The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily
  • The Annals of Bari, 1035-1102, trans. by G.A. Loud, PDF [At Leeds IMS] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • The Deeds of Robert Guiscard By William of Apulia, trans. by G.A Loud, PDF [At Leeds IMS] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • The Chronicle of St. Clement, Casauria, by John Berard, trans. by G.A.Loud, PDF [At Leeds IMS] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • The Annales Lupi Protospatharii of Bari: The Career of Robert Guiscard (1056-1085) [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• The Conquest of Southern Italy by Henry VI
  • The Book in Honour of the Emperor, by Peter of Eboli, trans. by G.A.Loud, PDF [At Leeds IMS] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • The Annals of Montecassino 1189-95, trans. by G.A. Loud, PDF [At Leeds IMS] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • The Genoese Annals of Ottobuono Scriba, 1191, 1194, trans.by G.A. Loud, PDF [At Leeds IMS] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • The Chronicle of Richard of S. Germano, 1189-99 trans.by G.A. Loud, PDF [At Leeds IMS] [Internet Archive backup here]

• WEB The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database [At Duke] [Internet Archive backup here]
• The Deeds of Count Roger of Sicily by Geoffrey Malaterra, Parts 1-4:, translated by G.A.Loud, PDF [At Leeds IMS]
  • Part 1 [At Leeds IMS] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • Part 2 [At Leeds IMS] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • Part 3 [At Leeds IMS] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • Part 4 [At Leeds IMS] [Internet Archive backup here]

• The Arte della Lana & The Government of Florence, 1224
• Treaty for Peace and Commercial Harmony Between Florence & St. Gimignano, 1225
• Giovanni Villani (c.1276/1280-1348): Florentine Chronicle, 1277-1348
• Giovanni Villani (c.1276/1280-1348): Florentine Chronicle, 1277-1348, full text [Project Gutenberg]
• Giovanni Villani, The Chronicle (Selections). trans. Rose E. Selfe, full text (Westminister: A Constable, 1896) [Project Gutenberg] + here [Internet Archive]
• List of Florentine Crafts Subject to Tax, 1316
• The Florence Catasto of 1427 (Online version) [Brown]
  Online Catasto is a World Wide Web searchable database of tax information for the city of Florence in 1427-29 (c. 10,000 records). It is based on David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Principal Investigators, Census and Property Survey of Florentine Dominions in the Province of Tuscany, 1427-1480.
• Dino Compagni: Battle of Campaldino, 1289 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Giovanni Villani: Battle of Campaldino, 1289 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Giovanni Villani: The Siege of Florence, 1312 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]

• Christofordo da Soldo: The Battle of Caravaggio (1448) [Milanese beat Venice] [Internet Archive version here]

• WEB Primary Sources for Thirteenth Century Venice [At Transactamus] [Internet Archive version here]
• WEB The Rulers of Venice, 1332-5524 [Internet Archive version here]
• The Chronicles of Venice, How the Doges were chosen
• Brief Annals of Venice, 13th Century, trans William North. [At Carleton] [Internet Acrhive version here]
  Found in a 13th century codex, these annals focus primarily on events in the Adriatic in the 12th century as well as the affairs of the city of Venice itself.

• Genoa
  • Cafarro: The Genoese expedition to Almeria, 1147 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
  • Salimbene de Adam: Naval Warfare between Pisa and Genoa in 1284 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Pisa
  • Ibn Kardabus: Pisa raids the Balearic Islands in 1114 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Lucca
  • Extracts From the Roll-Book of the Arte Della Seta [The Silk Guild], Lucca 1225
• Perugia
  • Francesco Matarazzo: Warfare in the Italian city of Perugia in 1495 [Internet Archive version here]
• Biella
  • The Commune of Bugelle (Biella): Documents and Statutes Part I, (or in PDF format here) and Part II, (or in PDF format here) 13-15th Century, full texts in Latin and English

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