Baroque Italian history and culture, long neglected or denigrated by scholars, is steadily attracting the attention it deserves as the era of Italy s greatest impact on Western Civilization, a key period in the formation of Italian political traditions and the era in which enduring traits of Italian society took hold. It is not until recently that textbooks treating the period have appeared for use in senior high schools and universities. This site helps historians recover this crucial era and makes it easier to diffuse our knowledge of it. This bibliography of the Baroque era is designed to assist both students and researchers of Italian and European history, art history, music, literature, philosophy, religion and science.
French titles constitute roughly a third of the total.
For researchers it attempts to be an exhaustive bibliography of the place and the period. As such, it illustrates the relative exposure of different themes over the last century and a half. The bibliography begins with a brief historiographical introduction based on a quantitative analysis of the titles published in each language since about 1850. The bibliography will be updated and augmented on a periodic basis , every four or six months. The new March 2001 Revision is now available.