I found this intriguing note on a listserv:
"A really lovely site for Art and History students is the Jacopo di Poggibonsi site which has been copied into Wikipedia as genuine. See if you can find the clue to its provenance (Google helps!)"
The site seems excellent for web legitimacy demonstrations. A Google search for the fictional artist even brought up lesson plans based around the website.
Then, when following it up, I found an excellent and genuine repository for primary source documents associated with the Medici family in Florence.
The Medici Archive Project is a not-for-profit corporation that plays aleadership role in the field of historical research. The chief focus ofthe Project's activity is the
Archive of the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany(1537-1743), housed in the Archivio
di Stato in Florence, Italy.
While the scans are in Italian, English translations are featured side-by-side . . .
If you are an art history nerd like me, you're heart will go a-twitter at the chance to gander through documents like this:
Entry from a volume made up of a series of survey descriptions ["Visita"]written by Cosimo Acciaioli of the subject towns and territories of the State of Siena, part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, at the time of Ferdinando I de' Medici. Acciaioli visits Moniciano and comments on the need to restore the Palazzo Pubblico there, providing a cost assessment of the work to be done.
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