ARTH 328: Dining with Michelangelo: Art and Food in Renaissance Italy: Start Here!

Try using one of the following specialized reference works to get started with your research. You can browse these to spark a paper topic or look up information about a term or technology cited elsewhere. 

Scholarly encyclopedias are great, authoritative ways to understand more about a topic (and always better than Wikipedia, which is not an appropriate source for academic research), and they can give you information about where to look next. But remember that these are reference tools, and as such they are usually not appropriate sources for a scholarly paper on their own.