Research Guides, including Italian Language and Literature Databases
Many of these sites have extensive links to additional resources
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Italian Studies Web
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The Italian Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Italian Studies. It covers links to research sites, newspapers and journals, national catalogues, etc. and has been created by Jeffrey Larson from Yale University, as part of the WESS website. |
Opera del Vocabulario Italiano
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The Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) contains 1,369 vernacular texts dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. It includes verse and prose from early masters of Italian literature, such as Boccaccio, Dante, Petrarch, as well as lesser known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers. |
Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (part of the ARFTL Project)
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The Encyclopédie database contains 20.8 million words, 400,000 unique forms, 18,000 pages of text, 17 volumes of articles, and 11 volumes of plate legends. |
Modern Language Association International Bibliography
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A PC resource. 1963-present, Indexes critical materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covering literary and language scholarship from 1963 to the present, it provides access to over 3,000 journals and series published worldwide, monographs, working papers and proceedings, and bibliographies. |
Manuals of Grammar/Stylistics/Pronunciation |
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| Coniugatore di verbi
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Once the tense and/or person are selected (in passive, active or reflexive voice) it is possible to conjugate most Italian verbs. The conjugator is produced by Texel laboratorio testi elettronici. |
Selected Bibliographies |
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Italian Literature
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Includes works of some Italian writers, in Italian. |
Princeton Dante Project
| Princeton Dante Project contains the text of the Divina Commedia,edited by Giorgio Petrocchi and published by Mondadori (Milan, Italy, 1966-67; 2nd ed., Florence, Le Lettere, 1994) for the Edizione Nazionale of the works of Dante sponsored by the Società Dantesca Italiana.
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| American Dante Bibliography
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From the Dante Society of America , housed at Brandeis University Libraries. |
| Italian Women Writers
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Italian Women Writers website, published by the University of Chicago, provides extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors beginning with those from the late 12th and 13th centuries, up to 1945. |
Histories of the Literature |
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| Italy1: Italian Literature
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This site provides a brief textual overview by century of Italian literature. The site is completely in English, and provides a nice introduction for undergraduates. |
| Encyclopedias |
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| Catholic Encyclopedia
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This is the Catholic Encyclopedia online. It's construction is a volunteer effort, and is still under construction, however, it includes some good biographies of Italian authors. |
Concordances (In English)
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| Oxford Text Archive
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Provides high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching in many languages and genres. Please read the "Conditions of Use" before using any of the texts. |
| Project Guttenberg
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Public domain e-texts that can be downloaded. |
Concordances (In Italian) |
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| I Classici della Letteratura Italiana
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Contains many of the works of Italy 's major authors (from the Duecento to the Novecento) and their biographies. |
| Duecento: la poesia italiana dalle origini a Dante
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Contains full-text poems up to the time of Dante.
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| Italian War Poetry |
This site contains a small collection of Italian poetry (in English translation) from World War I. |
| Divine Comedy Research Edition
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This site features four full editions: the original Italian text, and English translations by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the Rev. H.F. Cary, and Allen Mandelbaum. The reader may chose to use graphics from Gustave Doré, Salvador Dali, or Sandro Botticelli to enhance the reading of the Divine Comedy. There are also maps of the afterlife, and sample manuscript pages from printed versions of Dante. |
| The Decameron Web
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This site is dedicated to the scholarship of Boccaccio's masterpiece, the Decameron. The site contains basic biographical information on Boccaccio as well as information on the history of the time period. It provides full-text access to the Decameron in English and Italian, and is enhanced with commentary, maps and a bibliography. |
| Select Authors
To find more sites on specific Italian authors, try an advanced Yahoo or Google search. Use the author's last name first, followed by their first name.
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| Guido Mazzoni Pamphlet Collection
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Part of the Special Collections at Duke University, this site is an on-line exhibit that showcases a representative sample of the Mazzoni Pamphlet Collection. This collection is comprised of 50,000 rare Italian pamphlets, newspapers, programs, catalogs, and small volumes dating from the 16th through 20th centuries. It also includes periodicals, political satire, Italian and French dramas, ballets, librettos, eulogies, epithalamia, materials from both World Wars, many collections of poetry, and many pamphlets relating to the Unification of Italy. |
| Nobel Prizes in Literature
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Contains information on all the prize winners, including Pirandello, Montale, Quasimodo, and Deledda.
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| DanteNet
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DanteNet is an online service for Dante scholars provided by The Dante Society of America , and hosted at Princeton University . It contains an e-journal, bibliographies, and links to other Dante projects.
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| Dartmouth Dante Project
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This database contains the full text of Dante's Divine Comedy and commentaries on it from over 70 authors in Latin, Italian and English.
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| Digital Dante
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Maintained by the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University, the Digital Dante includes the full text of selected works by Dante, as well as biographical and bibliographical information on Dante and his works, as well as maps, images, and recent news about Dante studies.
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Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
| This site is an online exhibition that presents Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with selected treasures from The Newberry Library. The collection comprises mostly of 15th and 16th century imprints which total nearly 3,000 volumes, including rare editions and critical studies from the Renaissance to the present. The nine incunabula and nearly complete series of 16th-century imprints featured in this exhibit constitute essential primary sources for both the history of Dante's reception during the Renaissance and the early history of the printed book.
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| Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
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This website is dedicated to Niccolo Machiavelli and his book - The Prince.
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Niccolo Machiavelli (Virtu Sens)
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In Italian
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Selected Works of Niccolo Machiavelli
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The text of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Art of War, and Reform of Florence in english.
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Ente Nazionale Francesco Petrarca |
In Italian |
Literary Movements/ Genres |
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Futurism : Manifestos and Other Resources
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Contains links to full-text versions of the various Futurist manifestos, and links to the painters, painters, architects, sculptors, musicians of the movement
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Italian Futurist Book an essay by Maurizio Scudiero
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Includes some images of Futurist writings, and a bibliography.
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Yale resources for Italian studies. |
All things Italian at Yale University |
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Government and Country Information |
| World Factbook | U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
Country Reports
| U.S. Department of State
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