Links

This page gathers together web-based materials dedicated to medieval and Renaissance Rome.

Websites

• Aquae Urbis Romae (Katherine Rinne; hosted by University of Virginia).
  • Aquae Urbis Romae is an interactive cartographic history of the relationships between hydrological and hydraulic systems and their impact on the urban development of Rome, Italy. Our study begins in 753 BC and will ultimately extend to the present day. We examine the intersections between natural  systems–springs, rain, streams, marshes, and the Tiber River–and constructed systems including aqueducts, fountains, sewers, bridges, conduits, etc., that together create the water infrastructure of Rome. Offers an interactive map, studies, translations, and original texts.
• Mapping Rome: A Collection of Digital Projects on Medieval and Renaissance Rome (University of Oregon, Dartmouth University, Stanford University, Studium Urbis)
  • Interactive Nolli Map Project
  • Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome
  • Images of Rome. The Rodolfo Lanciani Digital Archive
  • The Urban Legacy of Ancient Rome
  • Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project (Stanford University)
• The Theater that was Rome (Brown University)
  • Led by Professor Emerita of Architecture Evelyn Lincoln, The Theater that was Rome aims to create a digital library, research and teaching site that reunites text and image, and provides a corresponding base of bibliographic information, historical documentation and critical interpretation that will reveal patterns of practical and intellectual collaboration in the early modern project of printing the image of early modern Rome. 
• Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (University of Chicago)
  • “The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae is a collection of engravings of Rome and Roman antiquities, the core of which consists of prints published by Antonio Lafreri and gathered under a title page he printed in the mid-1570’s. Copies of the Speculum vary greatly in the number of prints, and individual prints were reissued and changed over time….. The Digital Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae provides users access to high-resolution digital versions of the prints. These digital images are made available using Zoomify which is a delivery technology that provides fast zooming in and out of high resolution files without excessive bandwidth demands.”(From the website).

Lectures

• Claudia Bolgia (Università degli Studi di Udine), ‘Nova Roma’: Avignon as the New Rome (British School in Rome, Gordon Rushforth Lecture, 15 November 2023)
• Robert Coates Steven (BSR), The Monuments of Rome in Some Late Eastern Sources (British School in Rome, Gordon Rushforth Lecture, 23 March 2023)
• Rosamund McKitterick (University of Cambridge), Roman books and the papal library in the Early Middle Ages (British School in Rome, Gordon Rushforth Lecture, 10 November 2021)