NEHDigital Humanities Start-Up Grants

PROJECT DIRECTORThomas H. SimpsonDistinguished Senior Lecturer in ItalianDept of French & ItalianNorthwestern UniversityE-mail: ths907@northwestern.eduPhone(W): 847-467-1987Phone(H): 847-712-8924Fax: 847-491-3877Field of Expertise: Italian Language and Literature, Theatre, Medieval Vernacular LiteratureLiterature - Italian

INSTITUTIONNorthwestern UniversityEvanston, IL United States

APPLICATION INFORMATIONTitle: The Albizzi Ricordanze: A Family History WebsiteGrant Period:From 10/2013 to 10/2014Field of Project: History of Middle Ages

SHORT EXPLANATION:           One of the treasures of the Newberry Library is the so-called Secret Ledger Book of Pepo degli Albizzi, a leather-bound merchant's ledger and memorandum book dating from 1339-1387, when the Albizzi family rivalled the Medici for economic and political domination in the city of Florence. The goal of this project is to create a digitized, annotated, interactive online edition of Pepo's book that will provide both scholars and students a portal through which to experience a crucial moment in the birth of modern capitalism. The interactive version will allow users to see high-resolution digital photographs of each page of the manuscript, read an accompanying edition of the text, then click to open annotation windows containing texts, maps, images, graphics, animations, and videos that will explicate and bring to life the world its pages contain. The effect will be to take up a document that may first appear forbiddingly arcane, but that opens to reveal an exciting drama of business startups and financial speculation, workshop and family life, rich with partnership, social conflict, marriage, tragedy (the Black Death kills eleven Albizzi in June-July 1348) and both fraternal and clan rivalry.

            The principal collaborators in the project are a literary scholar, Thomas Simpson, Distinguished Senior Lecturer in the French & Italian Department at Northwestern University, and an economic historian, Amedeo Feniello, of Rome's Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, together with the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry and the Center for Scholarly Communication and Digital Curation at Northwestern. An outstanding undergraduate student at Northwestern, Michael Psitos, has been and will continue to be meaningfully involved, and we are working with an independent developer/designer based in Italy.

            We already have in hand the digital photographs of the manuscript, the critical edition of the text, and a good deal of genealogical, biographical, and bibliographical material prepared on spreadsheets, which basically await the appropriate digital architecture. We have found very promising the software tools described by the NEH-funded Digital Mappamundi Project

(http://dm.drew.edu/dmproject/) and spoke with one of the project managers last Spring, but since the beginning of this two-week DH workshop at Northwestern, we've been unable to reach him or anyone else at DM, and so haven't yet been able to construct a prototype using the DM tools. In the meantime we have been exploring alternatives such as the Image Markup Tool from the University of Victoria and the Germany-based TextGrid Project, but neither seems quite able to do what we have in mind.

DRAFT GRANT PROPOSAL:

Description of Project:The commercial and personal diary of the merchant-entrepreneur Pepo degli Albizzi, a manuscript preserved at the Newberry Library, Chicago, provides an important source for the history of Italian and European culture in the late Middle Ages. We propose to create a free, open-access online edition of this manuscript that will offer scholars interactive critical and historical tools, including an extensive historical introduction, high-quality images of the entire manuscript, a full transcription of its text, annotations, contextual multimedia, and multiple indices. We will take full advantage of available digital tools to provide a highly complete account of the contents of the ledger in all its many dimensions—genealogical, family-historical, social and economic, and paleographical and literary.

BUDGETMatching RequestTotal NEH$ 80.837

GRANT ADMINISTRATORE-mail:….Phone(W):….......Fax:….............

Table of contents

1. Table of contents2. List of participants3. Humanities significance and statements of innovation

1. The World in a Manuscript

2. The Edition3. From Birth to Death: The Merchant Diary as a Source for Family History4. The Website and the innovation to be completed5. Work Plan to be completed6. Staff to be completed7. Final product dissemination

4. Project Budget5. Biographies to be completed6. Selected Bibliography

7. Data Management Plan to be done8. Letters of Commitment and Support to be done9. Appendices to be done

2. List of participants

Project DirectorSimpson, Thomas H. (Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Italian, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian, Northwestern University)

Software DirectorParod, William (Architect, Software Development Group, Northwestern University)

Software ArchitectMatthew Taylor, IT Director, MultiMedia Learning Center, Northwestern University

Digital Projects ConsultantHonn, Josh (Digital Scholarship Library Fellow, Northwestern University)

Web and Motion Graphic DesignerDiamantis, Nicholas (NBC Universal Studios Global Networks Italia, Rome-Italy)

Software DeveloperPsitos, Michael (Undergraduate Student, Northwestern University)

Historical ConsultantFeniello, Amedeo (Professor, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, Rome-Italy)

3. Humanities significance and statements of innovation

1. The World in a ManuscriptComposed of 92 leaves, Pepo’s ledger cum diary presents a rare personal witness to the history of Florence between 1339 and 1353, one of the most dramatic moments in early Renaissance history. These were precisely the “fat years” of Florence’s greatest prosperity, abruptly destroyed by the Black Death in 1348, and followed by a period of economic decline. Many Florentine merchant writers kept diaries during this period, but few survive intact. The author of this one, Pepo degli Albizzi, was an important personage, active in Florence’s signature wool trade, expert in the best accounting methods of the day (a Tuscan specialty), and actively involved in politics. Pepo in fact achieved high political office, and together with his kinsmen he created a family dynasty that challenged the ascendency of the Medici. In short, he was a leading figure in the “Culture of the Florin,” so-called after the prestigious and widely used currency of Florence and its city-state. As a historical source, his diary can be compared with the most important of the day—including the famous and more literary accounts of Giovanni Villani and Giovanni di Pagolo Morelli.

2. The EditionOur edition of the manuscript text, a collaboration between Thomas Simpson of Northwestern University and Amedeo Feniello of Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, follows the best modern editorial practice, giving a faithful reading of Pepo’s own language and allowing him to speak to a modern audience. Written in a clear and crisp mercantesca hand, the type of handwriting

most common among commercial writers of fourteenth-century Florence, the text is both a model of the merchant-diary genre and also a fine specimen of the script that embodied his commercial culture.The full transcription we offer will serve teachers and researchers in several important fields:

a. Business and Accounting History: the ledger/diary presents an extended example of the kinds of accounts kept and contracts entered into by an active wool merchant.

b. Family and Social History: Pepo traces his family’s births, deaths, marriages, alliances, and partnerships with each other and within the larger Florentine society.

c. Literature: the text juxtaposes family and commercial writing styles in a manner typical for both in that period.

d. Linguistics and Paleography: the manuscript offers examples of grammatical inflection, vocabulary, typical merchant’s handwriting, and the use of abbreviations.

3. From Birth to Death: The Merchant Diary as a Source for Family HistoryThe single most interesting aspect of the diary of Pepo degli Albizzi is what we may call its commercial-familial dimension. The very form of the merchant diary offers a combination of data about Florentine families of the period as both dynastic and economic units. Pepo’s particularly rich diary will allow us to reconstruct important data of several types about the Albizzi family and its world:

a. A reconstructed genealogy of the family, going back to its roots in the thirteenth century and continuing to the end of the fourteenth. The undisputed kingpin of this extended family was Pepo’s father Antonio, whose descendants included Pepo’s many siblings, grandsons and granddaughters, and great-grandchildren.

b. A sense of the family as an economic unit, in which kinship relations and business ones were often identical. Pepo transcribes contracts between family members in full, so we can see the relative weight of various members of the partnerships they established to manufacture and sell woolen cloth and in their ownership of agricultural land.

c. Details about family wealth, both in specific cases and in the aggregate, are included in the diary as a matter of course. The family’s resources are richly recorded in an inventory of the family holdings at the time of the plague. The way this patrimony was distributed among the surviving members, carefully respecting their individual past contributions and present needs, is of unique interest. Pepo’s diary offers an important case study of how capital was amassed and preserved.

d. A portrait of family networks, because Pepo carefully records baptismal sponsors and marriages, each of which involved choices to ally the Albizzi individually and as a family unit to other prominent Florentine families of the merchant class.

e. A sense of the life-cycle of the late medieval family in an age of demographic catastrophe. Again, because Pepo is so careful a recorder of the births and deaths of his three wives, his children, and other relatives, his diary offers a microcosm of Florentine society in the years before, during, and after the Black Death.

4. The Website

We plan to build an interactive resource with an architecture sophisticated enough to allow visitors to read the manuscript, to understand its contents within a larger cultural and historical context, and to study it in great detail. At its heart will be a digital facsimile of the manuscript, page by page, which may be viewed alone or in parallel with the edited transcription. This split-screen version will allow visitors to read through the manuscript entry by entry (that is, one logical unit at a time) and also, for the purposes of paleographical study, a line at a time.

The site will be fully searchable, but since the terminology of the period is unfamiliar to

many potential readers, a full index of names, places, and subjects in English and Italian will be made available; and individual terms within the transcription will be linked to definitions on the site and/or to other websites.

The digital transcription of the text will offer an array of critical and historical annotations organized according to theme, including definitions of terms, biographical sketches, and multimedia sources including historical maps and audio and video content focusing on varied topics, from book production to the environmental impact of the wool industry, from marriage practices to the Black Death.

The site will provide an extensive historical introduction in English and Italian. Within the English section, key passages of the diary will be translated fully. Also included will be an interactive genealogical tree of the Albizzi family with links to places in the text of Pepo’s diary, a full bibliography of articles and books that concern this manuscript and others like it, and a page of selected links to Florentine and Italian history and literature sites.

An additional possibility, if sufficient funding becomes available, is to include interactive paleographic tools to assist users in learning to read the original fourteenth-century handwriting. These could include a tutorial on the script and abbreviations used by Pepo, including historical information and an overview of the challenges it presents to readers

Digitization and access to the manuscript has been completed and provided by the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL. Annotation work has begun in various digital forms, most recently in the formation of a relational database. However, significant work needs to be done linking the digital transcriptions and translations to the digitized images of the manuscript, and linking annotations to the text and across the entire manuscript. Having evaluated a number of tools for this work, we propose a partnership with the DM project in order to use their software as our research environment.

SOMETHING HERE ABOUT WHERE WE GO FROM DM. EXPORT. CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT. ETC.

SOMETHING ABOUT INTERACTIVE PIECES: VIDEOS, MAPS, GENEAOLOGIES, ETC.

Finally, we propose to launch a WordPress site as the online home of the project, in which we plan to provide an introduction to the project; a blog for updating the public on progress of the project, including critical reflections and scholarly introductions to various sections and context of the manuscript; and project documentation.

For the animation:Cinema-style animations in the website, will invite viewers to experiencce the atmosphere and the mood of the bustling, spirited city of Florence.Animations within the project will be built with the industry standard software of Adobe "After effects Cs6" and the programs of the Adobe suite. "After effects" is a powerful tool for creating high quality motion graphics.After Effects animates composite media in 2D and 3D space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, with capability for "Parallax" and user-adjustable angles of observation."MAXON Cinema 4d" 3d software will be used For the creation of 3d models and scenes that integrate with After effects.All video animations they will be delivered in different formats that can be uploaded in all social media.

5. Workplan

A. Work on the manuscript/text:

Data Collection (3 months): This phase of the project will consist of data collection and organization. We will read the manuscript and extract all relevant information on a basic level, organizing this data into spreadsheet form. Each paragraph of the manuscript will be given a unique identifier that can be recognized by the chosen program. People, places, recurrent themes, and economic transactions will be organized into spreadsheet files. By uniquely identifying all the important elements of the manuscript allows us to map the relevant data. These files will be interconnected so as to permit shared communication and plotting of annotations and web-based analysis of the manuscript. This phase of the project consists largely in recreating into the needed electronic languages, the data in and around the manuscript that we have already developed in traditional media.

To accompany this process, we will create and edit a WordPress site to describe our project and report on our ongoing progress.

B. Elaboration of the electronic resource:

Digital Elaboration (6 months): In this phase we will integrate the spreadsheet data into existent imaging tools such as those being developed in the DM Project, or set up a plan to develop our own software. Developer and designers will collaborate the authors to create an architecture that is intuitive, appealing to general viewers, and useful for scholars. A prototype will be published online for a test period to invite improvements and further development.

C. Publication Phase, Final product and dissemination (12 months): Tools will be built in to allow scholars to comment on and contribute to the site, according to their areas of expertise, and to allow teachers to experiment with the site and make suggestions to improve it as a pedagogical tool. The idea in this phase is to find ways to widen and deepen the authorship of the resource, making it into a global crossroads of Medieval Studies, where consumers of the site can become participants, and where teachers and dialogue fruitfully with scholars.

B. For the WEB WORDPRESS, and for motion graphic TO BE DONE

5. Staff: TO BE COMPLETED

Name and Title Role Time commited Funding

Simpson, Thomas H. (Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Italian, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian, Northwestern University)

Director NEH

Parod, William (Architect, Software Development Group, Northwestern University)

Software Director NEH

Taylor, Matthew, (IT Software Architect

Director, MultiMedia Learning Center, Northwestern

Honn, Josh (Digital Scholarship Library Fellow, Northwestern University)

Digital Consultant NEH

Diamantis, Nicholas (NBC Universal Studios Global Networks Italia, Rome-Italy)

Web and Motion Graphic Designer

NEH

Psitos, Michael (Undergraduate Student, Northwestern University)

Software Developer 160 hours NEH

Feniello, Amedeo (Professor, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, Rome-Italy)

Historical Consultant

4. Budget

5. Biographies

Simpson, Thomas H.Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Italian, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian, PhD U. of Chicago. Teaches both literature/culture and language. Research areas include: vernacular Middle Ages, 19 century journalism and post-Risorgimento culture, Theatre from early modern to contemporary. Recent publications: Murder and Media in the New Rome (Palgrave, 2010); editor and translator, with Nerenberg and Marini-Maio, Marco Baliani's 'Body of State' (FDUP, 2011); contributor to Dramatic Interactions(CSP 2011). Translations: Marco Martinelli, Rumore di acque ('Noise in the Waters"), forthcoming in California Italian Studies; Antonio Fava, The Comic Mask in the Commedia dell'Arte (NU Press, 2007); PP Pasolini, "Manifesto for a New Theatre" and "Affabulazione" (PAJ, Winter 2007); Ermanno Rea, Mystery in Naples (Guernica, 2003);.

Parod, William

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Matthew Taylor

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Honn, Josh(Digital Scholarship Fellow, Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation, Northwestern University Library) Josh Honn is Digital Scholarship Fellow at the Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation, Northwestern University, where he consults and collaborates with faculty and graduate students on digital humanities pedagogy and research projects. An academic and digital librarian, he holds Master’s degrees in American Studies and Library & Information Science, and has worked professionally as a print and web designer.

Diamantis, Nicholas

Multi - Lingual professional with 20 years experience in Motion Graphics and TV production, publishing, advertising, copywriting, web design, and Art Direction. For NBC Universal Studios Global Networks Italia he is responsible for the on-air promo production, scriptwriting, motion graphics and deliverables in 3 languages.

Feniello, Amedeo

(PhD École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - Paris, 2001) has been Director of the “Scuola storica nazionale di studi medievali” (Rome – Italy), directeur d'Etudes invité at the EHESS – Paris and has been Fulbright Italian Distinguished Chair at Northwestern University. Currently he works for the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo (ISIME). Research areas: medieval history, particularly economic and social history. In 2008 he received an NEH Chairman's Grant for the research Becoming a Capital City in Medieval South Italy: Naples from the 9th to the 12th centuries; and in 2012 another NEH Chairman's grant for the research project: Luxury in the Mediterranean. A Medieval History (10th-12th Centuries).

Psitos, Michael

(Northwestern University, Evanston, Il) Undergraduate student in mathematics and physics. Previous work as a research assistant under Professor Thomas Simpson (Northwestern University URAP summer grant winner), research assistant in the Ultra-L ow Temperature Physics Laboratory of Professor W.P. Halperin (Northwestern University), Summer research intern in the Civil Engineering Laboratory of Professor Frank Moon (Summer 2011, Drexel University).

6. Selected Bibliography

As a guarantee of the scientific accuracy of the elements to be included in the expanded electronic of the volume, we include in this initial bibliography a representative sampling of the indispensable texts on Medieval Florence. To complete the work, we will incorporate the most recent scholarship and return to on-site archives such as those in the Archivio Storico and the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence, which will provide further data that will enrich the expanded electronic edition.

Literary work:

Bacchi della Lega, Alberto, ed. Cronica di Buonaccorso Pitti. Bologna: Collezione di opere inedite o rare dei primi tre secoli della lingua. Romagnoli dall'Acqua, 1905. (This is a reprint of the Manni edition, Florence, 1720).

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decameron. Cesare Segre, ed. Milan: Mursia, 1962-1982.

Castellani, Arrigo, ed. Nuovi testi fiorentini del Dugento. Florence: Sansoni, 1952.

Compagni, Dino. Cronica. Gino Luzzatto, introduction and notes. Turin: Einaudi, 1968.

Del Lungo, Isidoro, and Guglielmo Volpi, eds. La Cronica domestica di Messer DonatoVelluti, scritta fra il 1367 e il 1370. Florence: Sansoni, 1914.

Del Lungo, Isidoro, ed. La Cronica di Dino Compagni delle cose occorrenti ne' suoi tempi. Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1916.

Rodolico, Niccolò, ed. "Cronaca fiorentina di Marchionne di Coppo Stefani," in Rerum Italicarum Scriptores: Raccolta degli storici italiani dal Cinquecento al Millecinquecento, ordinato da L. A. Muratori. Nuova edizione, t.30. Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1903.

Schiaffini, Alfredo. Testi fiorentini del Dugento e dei primi del Trecento. Florence: Sansoni, 1926.

Villani, Giovanni. Cronica: a migliore lezione ridotta. Florence, 1844. reprint in 4 vols.Frankfurt: Minerca GMBH, Unverandertur Nachdrucki, 1969.

General History:

Baron, Hans. The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955.

Becker, Marvin. Florence in Transition. 2 vols. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1967.Benvenuti, Anna, and others. La società comunale e il policentrismo. Milan: Teti, 1986.

Brown, Alison. The Medici in Florence: The Exercise of Language and Power. Florence:

Olschki, 1992.

Brucker, Gene A. Florentine Politics and Society, 1343-1378. Princeton: Princeton U.Press, 1962.

Brucker, Gene A.Dal Comune alla signoria: la vita pubblica a Firenze nel primo Rinascimento.Bologna: Il Mulino, 1981.

Capitani, Ovidio, Raoul Manselli, Giovanni Cherubini, Antonio Ivan Pini, GiorgioChittolini. Storia d'Italia. Vol. 4: Comuni e Signorie: istituzioni, società, e lotteper l'egemonia. Giuseppe Galasso, ed. Turin: UTET, 1981.

Capponi, Gino. Storia della repubblica di Firenze. in 2 vols. Florence: Barbèra, 1875.

Comitato di Studi sulla Storia dei ceti dirigenti in Toscana. I ceti dirigenti in Toscana nell'età precomunale: Atti del primo Convegno, Florence, December 2, 1978.Pisa: Pacini, 1981.

Comitato di Studi sulla Storia dei ceti dirigenti in Toscana. I ceti dirigenti in Toscana neisecoli XII e XIII: Atti del secondo Convegno, Florence, December 14-15, 1979.Pisa: Pacini, 1982.

Dameron, George W. Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000-1320. CambridgeMA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

De Angelis, Laura, "La classe dirigente albizzesca a Firenze: fine XIV - primi decennidel XV secolo", in La società fiorentina nel Basso Medioevo: per Elio Conti.Renzo Ninci, ed. Rome: Nuovi Studi Storici-29, pp.93-114.

De Angelis, Laura, Elisabetta Gigli, Franek Sznura, eds. Biagio Boccadibue (1298-1314).Pisa: Giardini editrici, 1984-1986.

De la Ronciere, Charles, Tra preghiera e rivolta: Le folle toscane nel XIV secolo. Rome: Jouvence, 1993.

Denley, Peter and Caroline Elam, eds. Florence and Italy: Renaissance Studies in Honour of Nicolai Rubinstein. London: Committee for Medieval Studies, Westfield College, 1988.

Herlihy, David. "Some Psychological and Social Roots of Violence in the Tuscan Cities",in Violence and Civil Disorder in Italian Cities, 1200-1500. Lauro Martines, ed.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

Herlihy, David. "Rulers of Florence, 1287 - 1530", in Anthony Molho, Kurt Raaflaub, Julia Emlen, eds. City States in Classical Antiquity and Medieval Italy. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1991.

Hughes, Diane Owen. "La famiglia e le donne nel Rinascimento fiorentino", Quaderni storici 24, 2 (1989) , in Charles E. Rosenberg, ed. The Family in History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975, pp.629-34.

Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento. Il tumulto dei ciompi: un momento di storia fiorentina ed europea. Florence, Olschki, 1981.

Jones, Philip. The Italian City-State: From Comune to Signoria. Oxford: ClarendonPress, 1997.

Jones, Philip. "Economia e società nell'Italia medievale: la leggenda della borghesia," inAAVV, Storia d'Italia, Annali I: Dal Feudalismo al Capitalismo. Turin: Einaudi,1978. pp. 187-374.

Jones, P.J. "Florentine Families and Florentine Diaries in the Fourteenth Century," inPapers of the British School at Rome, Philip Grierson and John Ward Perkins,eds, Vol. XXIV, 1956, pp.183-205.

Kent, Dale. The Rise of the Medici: Faction in Florence 1426-1434. Oxford, OxfordUniversity Press, 1978.

Kent, D.V. and F. W. Neighbours and Neighbourhoods in Renaissance Florence: TheDistrict of the Red Lion in the Fifteenth Century. Locust Valley, NY: JJ Augustin,1982.

Kent, F.W. "The Rucellai Family and Its Loggia," Journal of the Warburg and CourtauldInstitutes. 35 (1972) pp.379-401.

Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane. La famiglia e le donne nel Rinascimento a Firenze. Bari:Laterza, 1988.

Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane.. "Un salario o l'onore: come valutare le donne fiorentine del XIV-XV secolo," inQuaderni storici. n.79-anno XXVII-fasc. 1-aprile 1992. pp.41-50.

Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, and David Herlihy. Tuscans and Their Families: A Study ofthe Florentine Catasto of 1427. New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1985.

Kuehn, Thomas. Law, Family and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of RenaissanceItaly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.235

Larner, John. Italy in the Age of Dante and Petrarch, 1216-1380. London: Longman,1980.

Lansing, Carol. The Florentine Magnates: Lineage and Faction in a Medieval ComunePrinceton: Princeton U. Press, 1991.

Luzzati, Michele. Firenze e la Toscana nel Medioevo: Seicento anni per la costruzione diuno stato. Turin: UTET Libreria, 1986.

Mazzi, Maria Serena, and Sergio Raveggi. Gli uomini e le cose nelle campagne fiorentinedel Quattrocento. Florence: Olschki, 1983.

Molho, Anthony. "The Florentine Oligarchy and the Balie of the Late Trecento", Speculum, XLIII, 1968, pp. 23-52.

Najemy, John M. Corporatism and Consensus in Florentine Electoral Politics, 1280-1400. Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina Press, 1982.

Ottokar, Nicola. Studie comunali e fiorentini. Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1948.

Raveggi, Sergio, and others, eds. Ghibellini, Guelfi, e Popolo Grasso: i detentori del potere politico a Firenze nella seconda metà del Dugento. Florence: La NuovaItalia, 1978.

Rodolico, Niccolò. Il popolo minuto: note di storia fiorentina (1343-1378). Florence: Olschki, 1968.

Salvemini, Gaetano. Magnati e popolani in Firenze dal 1280 al 1295. Ernesto Sestan, ed. Milan: Feltrinelli, 1966.

Stella, Alessandro, Le Révolte Des Ciompi: les hommes, les lieux, le travail. Paris:Editions De L'Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, 1993.

Stern, Laura Ikins. The Criminal Law System of Medieval and Renaissance Florence.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Stopani, Renato. Il contado fiorentino nella seconda metà del Dugento. Florence:Salimbeni, 1979.

Sznura, Franek. L'Espansione urbana di Firenze nel Dugento. Florence: La Nuova Italia,1975.

Tarassi, Massimo. "L'Ascesa politica dei ceti popolari nella seconda metà del '200", Lasocietà fiorentina nel basso medioevo. Per Elio Conti. Renzo Ninci, ed. Rome:Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1995.

Tenenti, Alberto. Firenze dal Comune a Lorenzo il Magnifico, 1350-1494. Milan: Mursia1972.

Tetel, Marcel, Ronald G. Witt, Rona Goffen, eds. Life and Death in Fifteenth-CenturyFlorence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989.

Trexler, Richard C. Public Life in Renaissance Florence. New York: Academic Press,1980.

Zorzi, Andrea. L'amministrazione della giustizia penale nella repubblica fiorentina:aspetti e problemi. Florence: Olschki, 1988.

Genealogy:

Ammirato, Scipione, Delle famiglie nobili fiorentine. Florence, 1615.

Boschetti, Anton Francesco. I cataloghi dell'opera di Pompeo Litta, "Famiglie celebri italiane": note - appunti - notizie. Modena: Società Tipografica ModeneseSoliani, 1930-IX.

Dumon, Georges. Les Albizzi: Histoire et Génèalogie d'une famille à Florence et en Provence du Onzième siècle a nos jours. Amiens: Yvert & Co., 1978.

Litta, Pompeo, Famiglie celebri di Italia. 13 vols.Milan: P.E.Giusti, 1819-52.

Litta, Pompeo. Celebri famiglie italiane t.X. supplemento ALB-MAL. Milan: P.E.Giusti, 1860-93.

Litta, Pompeo. Famiglie celebri di Italia. 2d series in 3 vols.,78 parts. Naples: LucianoBasadonna, 1902-23.

Passerini, Luigi, and Demosthene Tiribulli-Giuliani, eds. Sommario storico dellefamiglie celebri toscane. vol. 1. Florence: Lorenzo Melchiorri, 1855

The Black Death:

Capitani Ovidio, Morire di peste: testimonianze antiche e interpretazioni moderne della peste nera del 1348, Patron, Bologna, 1995

Cipriani Alberto, A peste, fame et bello libera nos Domine: le pestilenze del 1348 e del 1400, Ed. Società pistoiese di storia patria, Pistoia 1990

Corradi, Alfonso. Annali delle epidemie occorse in Italia dalle prime memorie fino al 1850. 8 vols. Bologna, Italy: Forni, 1972–1973.

Del Panta, Lorenzo. Le epidemie nella storia demografica italiana (secoli XIV-XIX).Turin: Loescher, 1980.

Ivan Pini, Antonio, La società italiana prima e dopo la "peste nera", Società pistoiese di storia patria, Pistoia 1981.

La peste nera: dati di una realtà ed elementi di una interpretazione, Atti del XXX convegno storico internazionale, Todi 10-13 ottobre 1993 (Spoleto 1994)

Mandis Francesco. Gli ebrei come capro espiatorio della peste del 1348. L’eccezione italiana, in Ebrei migranti: le voci della diaspora, a cura di R. Speelman, M. Jansen e S. Gaiga, Italianistica Ultraiectina 7, Utrecht 2012

On the Culture of Medieval Florence:

Bec, Christian. Cultura e società a Firenze nell'età della rinascenza. Rome: Salerno,1981.

Bec, Christian.. Les marchands écrivains: Affaires et humanisme à Florence, 1375-1434. Paris: Mouton, 1967.

Biblioteca dell'"Archivium Romanicum." Il tema della Fortuna nella letteratura francesee italiana del Rinascimento: studi in memoria di Enzo Giudici. Florence: Olschki,1990.

Branca, Vittore. "Con amore volere": narrar di mercanti fra Boccaccio e Machiavelli.Venice: Marsilio, 1996.

Branca, Vittore. "Per il testo dei Ricordi di Bonaccorso Pitti," Filologia e critica. X, fasc.II-III, maggio-dic.1985, pp. 269-290.

Branca, Vittore, ed. Giovanni di Pagolo Morelli: Ricordi. Florence: Le Monnier, 1956.

Branca, Vittore, ed. Mercanti scrittori: ricordi nella Firenze tra Medioevo e Rinascimento.(Milan: Rusconi, 1986).

Cicchetti, Angelo, and Raul Mordenti. "La scrittura dei libri di famiglia" in AAVV. Letteratura italiana vol. 3, pt. 2, (Turin: Einaudi, 1984).

Di Camugliano, Ginevra Niccolini, The Chronicle of a Florentine Family, 1200-1470.London: Johnathan Cape, 1933.

Pandimiglio, Leonida. "Ricordanza e libro di famiglia: il manifestarsi di una nuovafonte," in Lettere italiane Anno XXXIX - n.1, (gennaio-marzo 1987).

Pndimiglio, Leonida. "Giovanni di Pagolo Morelli e la ragion di famiglia," in Studi sul medioevocristiano offerti a Raffaello Morghen. vol 2. Rome: L'Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1974.

Panella, Emilio. "Dal bene comune al bene del Comune: I trattati politici di Remigio dei Girolami nella Firenze dei bianchi-neri," in Memorie domenicane:Politica e vita religiosa a Firenze tra '300 e '500, 1985, XVI della Nuova serie, pp.1-198.

Petrucci, Armando. Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture. Linda Lappin, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Petrucci, Armando. Writers and Readers in Medieval Italy. Charles M. Radding, trans. New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1995.

On Economics, Trade, and the Guilds:

Anselmi, Gian-Mario, Fulvio Pezzarossa, Luisa Avellini, eds. La "memoria" dei mercatores: tendenze ideologiche, ricordanze, artigianato in versi nella Firenze del Quattrocento. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 1980.

Antoni, Tito. Il bilancio di una azienda laniera del Trecento (la ragione di Colo Bugarro per la "bottega dello stame"). Pisa: Colombo Cursi, not dated.

Cipolla, Carlo. The Monetary Policy of Fourteenth-Century Florence. Berkeley CA:University of California Press, 1980.

Cipolla Carlo. Money, Prices and Civilization in the Mediterranean World from the Fifth tothe Seventeenth Centuries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956.

De Roover, Raymond. Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Jules Kirshner, ed. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1974.

De Roover, Raymond. "The Story of the Alberti Company of Florence, 1302-1348, as Revealed in its Account Books," Business History Review. Vol. XXXII, 1958, pp.14-59.

Dini, Bruno. Una practica di mercatura in formazione (1394-1395). Florence: Le Monnier, 1980.

Edler, Florence. Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business. Italian Series 1200-1600.Cambridge MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1934.

Fiumi, Enrico. Fioritura e decadenza dell'economia fiorentina. Florence: Olschki, 1977.

Franceschi, Franco. Oltre il "Tumulto": i lavoratori fiorentini dell'Arte della Lana fraTre e Quattrocento. Florence: Olschki, 1993.

Franceschi, Franco. "Il linguaggio della memoria: le deposizioni dei testimoni in un tribunalecorporativo fiorentino fra XIV e XV secolo", in La parola all'accusato. Palermo:Sellerio, 1993.

Franceschi, Franco. "La mémoire del laboratores à Florence au debut du XV siecle," Annales, 5,Sept.-Oct. 1990, pp.1143-1167.

Franceschi, Franco. "Le botteghe: un nodo di relazioni sociali nella Firenze del Rinascimento," (tobe published).Gamurrini, Eugenio. Istoria genealogica delle famgilie nobili toscane e umbre. Florence:Onofri, 1668.

Goldthwaite, Richard A. The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and SocialHistory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1980..

Hoshino, Hidetoshi. L'arte della lana a Firenze nel basso Medioevo: il commercio dellalana e il mercato dei panni fiorentini nei secoli XIII-XV. Florence: Olschki, 1980.

Hoshino, Hidetoshi. "Note sulle gualchiere degli Albizzi a Firenze nel basso Medioevo," Ricerchestoriche. XIV,1984, pp.267-289.

Hunt, Edwin S. The Medieval Super-Companies: A Study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence. Cambridge: Cambridge Univesity Press, 1994.

Melis, Federigo. Aspetti della vita economica medievale (Studi nell'Archivio Datini diPrato). vol. 1. Florence: Olschki, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, 1962.

Melis, Federigo. Documenti per la storia economica dei secoli XIII-XVI. Florence: Olschki, 1972.

Melis, Federigo. "Lo sviluppo economico della Toscana e internazionale dal sec. XIII al sec.XV," in Conferenze in occasione del VII centenario della battaglia di Colle(1269- 1969). Florence: Società Storia della Valdelsa, 1979.

Sapori, Armando. La crisi delle compagnie mercantili dei Bardi e dei Peruzzi. Florence: Sansoni, 1976.

Sapori, Armando. Studi di storia economica. Florence: Sansoni, 1955.

Sapori, Armando, ed. I libri di commercio dei Peruzzi. Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1934-XII

On Urban Florence:

Pampaloni, Guido. Firenze al tempo di Dante: Documenti sull'urbanistica fiorentina.Rome: Pubb. degli Archivi di Stato: Fonti e Sussidi, 1973.

Richa, Giuseppe. Notizie istoriche delle chiese fiorentine divise ne' suoi quartieri, t.1

Romby, Giuseppina Carla. Descrizioni e rappresentazioni della città di Firenze nel XV secolo con la trascrizione inedita dei manoscritti di Benedetto Dei e un indice ragionato dei manoscritti utili per la storia della città. Florence: Libreria editrice fiorentina, 1976..

Selected Web Resources:

Historical Websites:

"Black Death." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Web. 12 May 2012. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/67758/Black-Death>.

"The Black Death." ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies. Ed. Kathryn Talarico. College of Staten Island, CUNY, 2003. Web. 20 May 2012.<http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/westciv/blackdeath.html>

"Bubonic Plague or The Black Death 1347-1352 A.D." Church of Brethren Network. Brethren Online- Church of Brethren Network, Feb. 1996. Web. 12 May 2012. <http://www.cob-net.org/text/history_bubonic.htm>.

“British History: Black Death.” BBC History. BBC News. Last modified 3 October 2011. Web. 19 May 2012.<http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/black_01.shtml>.

"Jewish History Sourcebook: The Black Death and the Jews 1348-1349 CE." Fordham University. Ed. Paul Halsall. Internet Jewish History Sourcebook, July 1988. Web. 12 May 2012. <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/1348-jewsblackdeath.asp>.

Knox, E.L. Skip. "The Black Death." Lecture. HIST101, History of Western Civilization. Online. History of Western Civilization. Boise State University, May 1995. Web. 12 May 2012. < http://europeanhistory.boisestate.edu/westciv/plague/>.

"The Great Famine (1315-1317) and the Black Death (1346-1351)." Lecture. Medieval History

Lecture. Online. Vlib.us. Virtual Library, 1 Jan. 2001. Web. 12 May 2012. <http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/black_death.html>.

Professor J.P. Sommerville's site for his English History course at the University of Wisconsin has fast facts about the Black Death, including statistics and maps http://faculty.history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20161%20Black%20Death.htm

Fordham University's Internet Medieval Sourcebook contains a small section on the Black Death with links to primary sources.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1w.asp

Possible Technological Tools and/or Models for the Albizzi Resource:

Image Markup & Annotation:

Digital Mappamundi Project: http://dm.drew.edu/dmproject/UVic Image Markup Tool Project: http://tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/index.php

TextGrid Project: http://134.76.163.169/en/1-0/tools/text-image-link-editor.html

Annotation Studio: http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/projects/annotation-studio/

TILE (deprecated): http://mith.umd.edu/tile/

Models, Resources, Environments, Inspirations:

The Medici Archive Project: http://www.medici.org/

Early Modern OCR Project: http://emop.tamu.edu/

Acquae Urbis Romae: http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/waters/

Hathitrust: http://www.hathitrust.org/home

AGILE development: http://www.versionone.com/Agile101/Agile-Development-Overview/

TEI boilerplate: http://dcl.slis.indiana.edu/teibp/

TAPAS Project: http://www.tapasproject.org/

Gephi: https://gephi.org/

City Nature: http://citynature.stanford.edu/

Snowfall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/?_r=0#/?part=tunnel-creek

Bamboo Dirt: http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/

Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/

MLA Commons: http://www.zotero.org/

Tiltfactor/pox: http://www.tiltfactor.org/pox

7. Data Mangement Plan

Data from the project will be managed by Bill Parod (Northwestern University IT Academic & Re-search Technologies) and Josh Honn (Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation). Long-term curation of data will be managed by Northwestern University IT and Northwestern Uni-versity Library. For more: https://dmp.cdlib.org/

Data generated by this project will include archival and web-ready image files; audio and video files; plain text and xml outputs of textual transcriptions, translations and annotations; spread-sheets and relational database; HTML, CSS and JavaScript code.

Archival and web-ready quality image and multimedia files will be stored and preserved in Northwestern University Library's Fedora repository. Text of the manuscript transcription, transla-tion, and annotation will be hosted, stored, made accessible and version controlled in a GitHub repository.

Aside from the archival quality image files which are to be shared publicly at the discretion of the Newberry, all data from this project will be openly accessible in Git repositories. Transcrip-tions and translations will be public domain, while all custom code will be published via open source licenses to-be-determined and based on dependencies.