Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532

The Tratte is a database of office holders and candidates for office in Renaissance Florence (1282-1532). Used together with the Online Catasto, it can be mined for information about population, income and political office.

This site gives access to a data base with information about office holders of the Florentine Republic during its 250-year history (1282-1532). It was developed initially by David Herlihy at Harvard and Brown Universities, and then completed in 2001 under the direction of R. Burr Litchfield and Anthony Molho at Brown with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access. Following up on and extending work done for the Online Catasto, STG collaborated with Litchfield to publish the Tratte data, comprising over 81,000 records. This work included designing and implementing a new database and developing an interface for the new data. During the course of the grant new materials were found in the archives in Florence and were added to the existing Tratte records. In 2002, STG worked with Burr Litchfield under an STG faculty grant, to add supplementary materials to the Tratte database, and to finetune the interface to the existing databases, taking into account what we learned from several years of use and user experience.