Italian Studies

Documents are either transcriptions, translations, or facsimile copies of originals.

The fonds deposited in the European University Institute (Florence).

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Travel descriptions linked in cooperation with Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerche sul Viaggio in Italia (CIRVI).

Collection of digital resources, organized by era, geography, format or type.

Published in 2002 by the Ministry of Culture (Ministero della Cultura).

A primer on archival research in Italy.

Renaissance Diplomatic Documents ca.1450 -- ca.1500

The Medici Archive Project (MAP) was founded by Edward Goldberg and Hester Diamond in the early 1990s to foster the study of the Mediceo del Principato, the epistolary collection of the Medici Grand Dukes, dating from 1537 to 1743.

Documents are either transcriptions, translations, or facsimile copies of originals.

The first library institute established in the Republic of San Marino and is a National Library, with the purpose of conservation and public reading.

Documents are either transcriptions, translations, or facsimile copies of originals.

Searchable by names, places and subjects.

Includes links to primary sources, reference material, genealogy, heraldry, and more.

Catalog of Swiss archival databases of participating federal and state archives.

The Swiss National Library

Documents are either transcriptions, translations, or facsimile copies of originals.

In September 2002 the new Periodicals Reading Room, which holds about a thousand periodicals on open shelf, was opened to the public. Nowadays, the Vatican Library preserves over 180,000 manuscripts (including archival units), 1,600,000 printed books, about 9,000 incunabula, over 300,000 coins and medals, more than 150,000 prints, thousands of drawings and engravings and over 200,000 photographs.