Renaissance Primary & Secondary Sources

The complete text of The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, a significant 19th-century social history that influenced Renaissance studies for generations. A public-domain document online here at the Medieval History site.

From Paul Halsall at Fordham University, a collection of primary documents related to early Italian Humanism, artists, politics, and the arts of civilization during the Renaissance movement.

A hypertext archive of translated narratives, medical consilia, governmental records and images documenting the plague in Western Europe.