Boot Camp for 16th-century Medici Historians

Dedication to the demanding task of reading and transcribing each and every letter from the most mundane to the most riveting is the key to the Project’s success. Its scholars seem captivated by what they have found so far... And that’s only the beginning. This kind of archive is exactly the fount of information that may be able to provide a true characterization of the Medici rulers, not as ''Godfathers of the Renaissance'' as the PBS docudrama has recently espoused, but rather as psychologically and socially complex personalities, requiring in-depth analysis.