Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Catasto of 1427 Database
| STG lead(s): |
Elli Mylonas, Geoffrey Bilder |
As an early example of the capabilities of the WWW, Geoffrey Bilder converted the existing data of the Florentine Catasto from David Herlihy's original database files into Sybase, and developed a web-based search capability that provides for complex queries and statistical views of tax data, households, occupations, and assets.
Recently (1999), Profs. Litchfield and Molho were awarded an NEH grant to clean up, supplement and publish more of Herlihy's original research. When the work of supplementing and checking the additional information has been completed, STG will work with Prof. Litchfield to publish the new data, structuring a database and developing an interface for the new materials. STG has also been consulting with Prof. Litchfield on an ongoing basis about the the former and future formatting and organization of the new information.
The Online Catasto of 1427 is a web-searchable version of tax data for the city of Florence in 1427-29 based on David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Census and Property Survey of Florentine Dominions in the Province of Tuscany, 1427-1480. The Online Catasto provides the same information that is contained in the print-out volumes currently in the Archivio di Stato in Florence, but adds some variables that are not present in those volumes.
| Principal Investigator(s) or Parent Project Lead(s): |
R. Burr Litchfield, Anthony Molho
Department of History, Brown University
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| Research domains: |
humanities computing |
Record last modified: 13-Sep-2005
