Italian Studies: Find primary sources
Guidance on finding e-resources for doing research on Italian history, literature, and society
Full text corpora
- Liber LiberOnline library of over 3000 Italian texts
- ItalNet * OVI database homeOver 1800 Italian vernacular texts, most dated prior to 1375. The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers
- Eighteenth century collections onlineAims to contain all significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. The full collection includes nearly 180,000 titles and more than 33,000,000 pages of searchable material.
- Internet culturaleItaly's national digital library
- Italian newspapers - bibliography and links to digital archivesFrom the Emeroteca ("newspaper library") of the Biblioteca Bertoliana in Vicenza, a listing of digitized Italian newspapers and collections.
Individual author resources
- Digital DanteDigital Dante (Columbia University) offers original research and ideas on Dante: on his thought and work and on various aspects of his reception.
- Dante WorldsMultimedia journey through the Divine Comedy
- Dartmouth Dante ProjectA searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.
- "Michelangelo." Grove Art OnlineHughes, Anthony, and Caroline Elam. "Michelangelo." Grove Art Online. 2003.
- Edizione nazionale digitale dell'opera omnia di Luigi PirandelloDigital edition of the works of Luigi Pirandello. Included are facsimiles of manuscripts of several of his plays, critical editions of his works, a searchable concordance and "Vocabolario Pirendelliano" and multimedia teaching materials.
- Decameron WebInteractive Decameron site from Brown University
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