THE MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT
In the website's own words:
Since its foundation in the early 1990s, the Medici Archive Project
(MAP) has been innovating new strategies for research in the Humanities.
During the early stages of its existence, MAP’s mission was to merge
archival research with technological innovations for data management.
A
pioneering group of scholars began to catalog in a rudimentary
electronic database the letters of one of the most exhaustive and
complete courtly archives of early modern Europe: the Medici Granducal
Archival Collection (Mediceo del Principato).
This archival collection ―
comprising over four-million letters distributed in 6,429 volumes and
occupying a mile of shelf space ― covers a chronological span of two
hundred years, from 1537 to 1743.
It documents the political,
diplomatic, gastronomic, economic, artistic, scientific, military and
medical culture of early modern Tuscany and Europe.
No comments:
Post a Comment