STG Projects and Consulting

Online Gazetteer of Sixteenth Century Florence

Gazetteer Website

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/florentine_gazetteer/

STG lead(s):

Kerri Hicks

STG designed and implemented a searchable gazetteer of 16th c. Florence to accompany Prof. R. Burr Litchfield's book on changes in Florentine civil society at that time. We processed the digital photographs he provided us of the Buonsignori map of Florence, and implemented map viewing software to facilitate navigation. We also developed a database for Prof. Litchfield manage salient information on features of the city, which also served as the infrastructure for the information displayed on the website.

Prof. Litchfield has been researching the transition of Florentine civil society of the Republic to the court society of the Medici Grand Duchy as seen through the prism of the changing urban social geography, and is publishing a digital book on the subject, Florence Ducal Capital, 1530-1630. The book will be contain links to a website showing the geographical details discussed in the book. The website, which is based on the 1594 edition of the Buonsignori map of Florence, also functions as a standalone resource to the geography and features of 16th c. Florence.

Principal Investigator(s) or Parent Project Lead(s):
R. Burr Litchfield Department of History, Brown University

Research domains:

electronic publishing; information and interface design

Type:

website

Links:
Online Catasto of 1427 Database	http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/indexcard/displaycard.php3?card=7
Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532 (2)	http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/indexcard/displaycard.php3?card=60

STG involvement initiated:	August 2005		Status:	hosting
			Funding support:	STG Faculty Grant

Contact:

stg_info@brown.edu

Record last modified: 31-Aug-2006