The Mahalo Top 7
- Wikipedia: Italian Renaissance
- Washington State University: The Idea of the Renaissance
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University): Renaissance
- Victoria and Albert Museum: At Home in Renaissance Italy
- Boise State University: Early Modern Europe - The Renaissance
- WebExhibits: Introducing the Italian Renaissance
- YouTube Video: The Italian Renaissance 1300 - 1400 (Time 1:16)
Italian Renaissance Background and Profiles
- Boise State University: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- Washington State University: Backgrounds, Italian Renaissance
- CUNY Brooklyn: General Characteristics of the Renaissance
- PBS: The Renaissance - An Overview
Government and Politics
- Wikipedia: Renaissance - Social and Political Structures in Italy
- University of Massachusetts Lowell: Political Background - Machiavelli and Medici
- The Renaissance Files: Italian Renaissance Government
Art and Culture
- Wikipedia: Italian Literature - The Renaissance
- University of Massachusetts Lowell: Literary Arts for the Renaissance
- Thinkquest: Italian Renaissance Artists
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: Architecture in Renaissance Italy
- West Valley College: Italian Renaissance Art Survey
Religion and Philosophy
- University of Massachusetts Lowell: Philosophical Background - Neoplatonism, Ficino and Pico
- Eyewitness to History: The Death of Pope Alexander VI, 1503
- Boise State University: Religion and the Spirit of the Renaissance
Italian Renaissance Central Figures
The Medici
- Wikipedia: Florence Under the Medici | Medici
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University): ...Paternal Advice To A Cardinal (c. 1491)
- Tuscany Info: History of the Medici Family
- PBS: Medici:Turning Points 1360 -1743
Niccolo Machiavelli
- Mahalo's Guide to Niccolo Machiavelli
- Washington State University: Niccolo Machiavelli
- Wikipedia: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Niccolò Machiavelli
Dante Alighieri
- Mahalo's Guide to Dante Alighieri
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Dante Alighieri
- University of Notre Dame: Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
Leonardo da Vinci
- Mahalo's Guide to Leonardo da Vinci
- Wikipedia: Leonardo da Vinci
- BBC: Leonardo da Vinci
- Museum of Science: Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
- Mahalo's Guide to Michelangelo
- Wikipedia: Michelangelo
- BBC: Michelangelo
- Eyewitness to History: Michelangelo Paints the Sistine Chapel
- Web Gallery of Art: Visit to the Sistine Chapel in Vatican
- Stanford University: The Digital Michelangelo Project
Raphael
- Mahalo's Guide to Raphael
- Wikipedia: Raphael
- California State University: Raphael
- Eyecon Art: Raphael Sanzio
Italian Renaissance Images and Media
- Google Images: Italian Renaissance Images
- Yahoo! Images: Italian Renaissance Images
- Google Video: Italian Renaissance Videos
- YouTube Video: Italian Renaissance Art (Time: 8:52)
- Victoria and Albert Museum: Renaissance House
- University of Massachusetts Lowell: Botticelli's Mythological Paintings
- Web Museum Paris: Raphael | da Vinci | Michelangelo
- Marquette University: Haggerty Museum of Art Virtual Tour
Italian Renaissance Books and Research
- Google Books: Italian Renaissance Books
- Amazon.com Italian Renaissance Books
- Google Books: The Art of the Italian Renaissance
- Google Books: The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy
Italian Renaissance Timeline
- 1334: Giotto di Bondone is put in charge of public works in Florence.
- 1341: Francesco Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome on April 6.
- 1397: Giovanni de Medici, the Vatican banker, moves to Florence.
- 1420: The Papacy returns to Rome from Avignon, France.
- 1429: Cosimo de Medici becomes head of the bank after his father's death.
- 1452: Leonardo da Vinci born.
- 1453: Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Empire.
- 1454: Johann Gutenberg prints the Gutenberg Bible.
- 1464: Lorenzo de Medici assumes power in Florence.
- 1494: The Medici family is driven out of Florence by Girolamo Savonarola.
- 1503: Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa.
- 1508: Michelangelo begins painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
- 1513: Leo X, the son of Lorenzo de Medici, becomes Pope.
- 1513: Niccolo Machiavelli publishes The Prince
- 1517: The Protestant Reformation begins.
- 1519: Leonardo da Vinci dies in Amboise, France.
- 1527: The Sack of Rome by Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, occurs on May 6.
Italian Renaissance Satire and Humor
- YouTube Video: Renaissance Movie Trailer Parody (Time: 3:21)
- LeonardoHistory.com: Jokes Invented by Leonardo Da Vinci
- Cartoon Stock: Renaissance Cartoons
