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News and Notes from the Medici Archive Project:
 Press Articles from the Project Files

"Up Close and Personal: An Interview with Ippolita Morgese"

The Florentine, March 8, 2007
Issue No. 51/2007

“Fascinated by documents and perennially attracted to the history of civic and cultural institutions, [Ippolita Morgese] currently heads one of the most dynamic historical research projects in the world: after working for the Medici Archive Project since 1993, she became its president in 2005.” [...]

Please click here to read the entire interview

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"Gli affair d'oro dei Medici nel ghetto di Firenze"

by Wanda Lattes, Corriere della Sera,
20 December, 2004, p.29.

“L’occasione per ricordare ci viene dalla prossima pubblicazione, per le edizioni dell’università di Toronto, di un ampio studio di Ippolita Morgese, vicepresidente dello statounitense Medici Archive Project, sulle vicende del ghetto di Firenze—The Origin of the Florentine Ghetto—con la collaborazione del noto studioso Michele Luzzati.”

"The Medicis and the Jewish Question: Scouring the annals of time for a link to an Italian Jewish past"

by Joseph Hoffman, The Jerusalem Post: UpFront, October 8, 2004, pp.28-29 and The International Jerusalem Post, October 22, 2004, pp.24-25.

From the article:

“Quick now, what comes to mind when you hear the name Medici: Florence, the Ponte Vecchio, Michelangelo?...So is anyone out there thinking “Jewish”? Because if Edward Goldberg has his way, the Medici Archive Project will overflow with information about the Jewish presence in Tuscany during the Italian Renaissance.”

(Complete article can be found here.)

"Boot Camp for 16th-century Medici Historians",

by Cristina Colasanto, Oggi Sette, April 11, 2004

(Complete article can be found here.)

Studiosi ai "lavori Forzati" (Italian Version)

From the article:

“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.”

 

"Behind the Scenes in the Medici Granducal Archive",

by Edward Goldberg, Calliope: Exploring World History, Vol. 11 n.8 (April 2001), pp.46-48.


“The Medici Archive Project is an international organization based in New York and Florence that was founded in 1995. Its goal is to bring to life the millions of stories that are in the archive waiting to be told...Archival history is much more than a record of “what” happened—it is also the inside story of “how” and “why” events happened.”


"The Medici Archive Project"
Interview, National Public Radio, Morning Edition

On April 4, 2001, Morning Edition host Bob Edwards interviewed Edward Goldberg, Senior Scholar, Medici Archive Project.

"He's Got Mail: a Scholar's Campaign to Unearth the Writings of the Medicis"

by Jennifer K. Ruark, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 16, 2001, Vol.XLVII, No.23.

From the article:

“The [Medici Archive] has been… for hundreds of years, a vast, uncharted landscape… But bit by bit, Mr. Goldberg and his colleagues… have begun to chart that territory…providing researchers a “you are there” feeling...(The) Archivio di Stato di Firenze [is] just as intriguing as any Renaissance cathedral.”

 

"The Medici Online", Boston Globe Editorial,
February 9, 2001

From the editorial:

In scope and complexity, it resembles nothing so much as the mapping of the human genome, but the scholars with laptops sitting around a table in Florence, Italy, are trying to identify and index not the genes of the human body but the 2 million to 3 million documents in the archives of the Medici dynasty.
[...]
When it is done, 15 to 18 years from now, the world will have a digitized database of the paper trail for two centuries of Medici influence.

(Complete article can be found in The Boston Globe archive at www.boston.com)

"On the Early Years of the Medici Granducal Archive"
by Edward Goldberg, Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies; Volume XVIII, Number 1, October 2000, pp.8-17.

From the article:

“Cosimo (I de’ Medici) recognized that documentation meant power, documentation meant order and documentation meant control. A crucial watershed in his transformation of the old Florentine Republic into an absolute monarchy was the annexation of the archives of the civil government...”

 

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