Created in 2004 thanks to a two-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the VHL provides a portal and a collaborative platform for faculty-led digital projects in Italian literature, philosophy, history and history of art and architecture, ranging from the early modern to the contemporary period. Directed by Massimo Riva, in close collaboration with the Center for Digital Scholarship of the Brown University Library, and the Brown Digital Publications Initiative, the VHL also provides a framework for the training of graduate students in the Digital Humanities.
Italian Studies
Virtual Humanities Lab
Garibaldi Panorama Interactive Project
Interactive installations of the Garibaldi Panorama were presented in various Italian libraries and museums in Italy
Project List
The Decameron Web is a collaborative online resource for the study and teaching of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron.
The Pico Project provides a resource for the reading and interpretation of Pico della Mirandola’s thought within our contemporary post-humanist context.
A selection of documents from and about Rome from the 16th-19th centuries and a repository for research on the de Rossi family print shops in 17th and 18th century Rome.
A multimedia resource for the interdisciplinary study and teaching of the life and deeds of one of the main protagonists of the Italian unification process, Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882).
When the Roman revolution broke out late in 1848, Pope Pius IX fled the Papal States and called on the Catholic powers of Europe to send their armies to restore him to power. Giuseppe Mazzini led the Roman Republic that briefly came to power, with Giuseppe Garibaldi leading his ragtag forces to defend it. At the time, the only U.S. diplomat in Rome was the American consul, Nicholas Brown.