# Renaissance History sources?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 13, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renaissance-history-sources/207166 "2003-10-13T12:40:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bibliovore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renaissance-history-sources/207166/1 "2003-10-13T12:40:16Z")

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I’m doing some background research for a book, and I’m hoping that someone can point me towards a good site on Renaissance Italy. I’m looking for info on everything from technological level, to attitudes, culture, superstitions, food and recipies, class structure, music, art, clothing and feashion - you name it, I need it!

There’s a lot of stuff out there, but a google search won’t help me sort the wheat from the chaff. Can you help?

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**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renaissance-history-sources/207166/2 "2003-10-13T13:15:17Z")

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[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/](http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/)

The history sourcebooks project at the above link has a pretty good collection of documents and links to secondary sources (and other metasites). This is usually where I start looking for anything outside of U.S. or modern history.