EuroDocs > History of Italy: Primary Documents > Local and Regional History Sources

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Contents 1 Regional Sources 1.1 Alto Adige (South Tyrol) 1.2 Campania 1.3 Piedmont 1.4 Tuscany 1.5 Umbria 1.6 Others and General 2 Local Sources 2.1 Bologna 2.2 Cesena 2.3 Florence 2.4 Mantua 2.5 Milan 2.6 Paestum 2.7 Pisa 2.8 Rome 2.9 Venice

Regional Sources

Alto Adige (South Tyrol)

• Digital Archive of South Tyrolian Newspapers

(19th-20th centuries; newspaper facsimiles in German or Ladino language)

• Biblioteca Digitale dell'Alto Adige

Local newspapers and other historical items of South Tyrol, particularly from the Fascist era.

(1917-1941; facsimile images in Italian, Ladino and German)

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Campania

• Biblioteche digitali della Campania

Digital libraries of the Campania region, including materials from the Napoleonic era.

(Facsimiles)

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Piedmont

• La Stampa: Archivio storico dal 1867

Historical archive of La Stampa newspaper issues since the times of Italian unification.

(1867-2005; searchable database of facsimile images)

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Tuscany

• Emeroteca virtuale Toscana

A virtual library of Tuscan magazines and newspapers.

(19th and 20th centuries; facsimile images)

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Umbria

• Biblioteca Digitale della Biblioteca Augusta di Perugia

Digital library of Umbrian newspapers, journals, manuscripts and other items.

(Late 18th to Mid-20th Century; facsimiles - requires download of a DjVu plug-in)

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Others and General

• Historic Cities of Italy

A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities

(Facsimiles).

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• Biblioteca Italiana Telematica: Collezioni

A burgeoning online document collection including sources of national and local history

(Facsimiles and transcriptions)

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• Emeroteca digitale

Hundreds of Italian journals, periodicals and regional newspapers.

Digitized by Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense.

(19th-20th centuries; facsimiles - DjVu browser plug-in required)

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• Digitale Bibliotheken in Italien

Digital libraries in Italy, a list compiled by Klauf Graf.

(All ages; facsimiles and transcriptions)

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Local Sources

Bologna

• Archival Documents of Bologna

from Evidence! Europe Reflected in Archives

(Facsimiles and English summaries)

• Il Resto del Carlino Online

Digitized issues of this Bolognese newspaper from the time of the First World War.

(1915-1919; facsimile images)

• Il Comune di Bologna digitalizzato

The monthly Bolognese magazine digitized up to the start of World War II.

(1924-1939; facsimiles - requires download of the DjVu plugin)

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Cesena

• Periodici Cesenati Digitalizzati

Digitized reproductions of three newspapers from the city of Cesena (in Emilia-Romagna).

(1889-1910; various indexes to facsimile images)

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Florence

• Catasto: Florentine tax data (Florence only)

(1427-1429; searchable datasets at Brown University)

• Catasto: Census and Property Survey for Florentine Domains and the City of Verona in Fifteenth Century Italy

(1427-1429, 1458, 1480 [Florence]; 1425 & 1502 [Verona]; searchable datasets at the University of Wisconsin)

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Mantua

• Periodici Storici Mantovani Digitalizzati

Historic newspapers of Mantua through the centuries.

(1689-1958; facsimile images in Italian)

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Milan

• Relatione verissima del progresso della peste di Milano

Account of the plague of Milan between 1576 and 1577.

(1576-1577; Italian-language facsimile)

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Paestum

• Les ruines de Paestum

French-language account of the ancient and modern history of the city of Paestum.

(1769; book facsimile)

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Pisa

• 4300 Pisani giurano di mantenere l'alleanza fatta con Siena, Pistoia e Poggibonsi

4300 Citizens of Pisa Swear to Maintain the Alliance with Siena, Pistoia and Poggibonsi

(July-August 1228; Latin/Italian transcription with explanatory notes in Italian)

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Rome

• Rome Reborn

A virtual and navigable reconstruction of Rome in the year 320 CE.

(320; Facsimile images)

• Le Plan de Rome

Virtual, thematic, geographic and historical reconstructions of Rome and its various edifices.

A project of the University of Caen in France.

Website also available in English, Italian, Russian, Arabic, and Spanish.

(4th century AD; facsimile images of a plaster model)

• Archivio Storico Capitolino

Digital archive of the Historical Archive of the City of Rome.

Provides access to digital resources for the history of Rome and the Lazio region from the 11th century onwards.

(11th - 20th centuries; facsimiles & descriptions, images and maps)

• Il Cracas digitale

Italian-language digital archive of the "Diario di Roma" (Journal of Rome) or "Diario d'Ungheria" (Journal of Hungary), commonly called Cracas.

The newspaper is a fundamental source for the history of Italy and foreign countries throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.

(1716-1836; TIFF and PDF format facsimiles)

• The Interactive Nolli Map of Rome

Interactive map of Rome created by Giambattista Nolli in 1748.

(1748; facsimiles and descriptions)

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Venice

• Venetian Sailing Directions

(1499; facsimile)
Quote from exhibit: "This early book of sailing directions served as a handy guide for the sailor and a storehouse of practical information for laymen. The use of the hand and zodiac for information was considered vital to the 15th century Mediterranean navigator."

• Venise: histoire, art, industrie, la ville, la vie

Charles Yriarte's French-language account of the history of Venice in terms of its art, industry, city, and lifestyle.

(1878; book facsimile)

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EuroDocs > History of Italy: Primary Documents > Local and Regional History Sources

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EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
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