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Research Tools for Italian
Use these research tools to find information related to Italian from sources such as scholarly articles, books and encyclopedias.
*Blue asterisk indicates recently added tool.
Archival Collections and Primary Sources
Article Databases and Indexes
Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers
Bibliographies and Subject Guides
Biographical Sources
Book and Film Review Sources
Country Data Sources
Dictionaries, Thesauri and Quotations
Directories
Dissertation and Thesis Sources
Encyclopedias and Almanacs
Government Information Sources
Handbooks, Manuals and Yearbooks
Image and Sound Databases
Library and Book Catalogs
News Databases, Indexes and Web Sites
Organizations
Statistics and Numeric Data
Web Gateways and Search Engines
Archival Collections and Primary Sources
Resources that list, or provide access to, materials typically found in archives and used for primary source research. Examples include manuscripts, diaries, letters, first-hand accounts or documentary sources on a subject, person, event or issue.
- Electronic Resource Finder
- CD-ROM Resources
- Tutte le opere. Torquato Tasso. Roma : Lexis, c1997.
Doe Refe PQ 4636 .A1 1997 compu/d
Listings of articles in journals, magazines, newspapers, etc. Many include abstracts (article summaries). Some include or link to the full text of articles.
Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers
Resources that provide maps or tools you can use to generate maps. Gazetteers are geographical dictionaries, giving information about cities, mountains, rivers, etc.
Bibliographies and Subject Guides
Lists of materials in any format (books, articles, videos, web sites, etc.) organized around a common theme or topic. Subcategories as appropriate, i.e., chronological, language, geographic, etc.
- Print Resources
- Comento sopra la Comedia. Cristoforo Landino ; a cura di Paolo Procaccioli. Roma : Salerno, 2001. Edizione nazionale dei Commenti danteschi ; 28
Main Stack PQ4390.A2.L354 2001 v.1-4
- Dante : the critical complex. Edited with introductions by Richard Lansing. New York : Routledge, 2003.
Main Stack PQ4390.D2834 2003 v.1-8
- Dictionary of Italian literature. Peter Bondanella and Julia Conaway Bondanella, editors-in-chief. Rev., expanded ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Doe Refe PQ4006.D45 1996
*Dizionario del fascismo. a cura di Victoria De Grazia, Sergio Luzzatto.
Torino : G. Einaudi, c2002-c2003.
Main Stack D726.5.D59 2002 v.1-2
- Dizionario critico della letteratura italiana. Diretto da Vittore Branca, con la collaborazione di Armando Balduino, Manlio Pastore Stocchi, Marco Pecoraro. 2a ed. Torino : Unione tipografico-editrice torinese, c1986.
Doe Refe PQ4006 .D45 1986 v.1-4
- Dizionario critico della letteratura italiana del Novecento. Enrico Ghidetti, Giorgio Luti. 1. ed. Roma: Editori riuniti, 1997.
Main Stack PQ4057.G48 1997
*Dizionario delle opere della letteratura italiana. Diretto da Alberto Asor Rosa.
Torino : G. Einaudi, 2006.
Main Stack PQ4006.D49 2006 v.1-2
- *Encyclopedia of Italian literary studies.
Marrone, et al, eds. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Doe Refe PQ4006.E536 2007
- La Letteratura italiana. Firenze: Sansoni; Milano: Accademia, 1971.
Main Stack PQ4037.B37 v.1-4
- Letteratura italiana del Novecento Rizzoli Larousse. Diretta da Nino Borsellino e Walter Pedulla. Milano : Rizzoli, 2000.
Doe Refe PQ4087.L433 2000 v.1-2
*Manuale critico-bibliografico per lo studio della letteratura italiana. Mario Puppo and Giorgio Baroni. 4a ed. Torino : SEI, 1994.
Main Stack PQ4087.A12.P87 1994
*Manuale di letteratura italiana : storia per generi e problemi / a cura di Franco Brioschi e Costanzo Di Girolamo. Torino : Bollati Boringhieri, 1993Main Stack PQ4037.M26 1993
Library has: v.1 (1993) [3-4 on order]
- Novecento: i contemporanei: gli scrittori e la cultura letteraria nella societa italiana. Ideazione e direzione di Gianni Grana. Milano: Marzorati, [1979].
Main Stack PQ4087.N6 v.1-10
- The Oxford companion to Italian literature. Peter Hainsworth and David Robey, eds. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Doe Refe PQ4006.O84 2002
- Storia della civilta letteraria italiana. Diretta da Giorgio Barberi Squarotti. Torino: UTET, 1990-
NRLF Main Stack PQ4037.S66 1990 v.1-v.6:1
- Storia della letteratura italiana. Giulio Ferroni. Milano: Einaudi Scuola, 1991.
Main Stack PQ4037.F47 1991 v.1-4
*Storia della letteratura italiana / diretta da Enrico Malato. Roma : Salerno, c1995.
Main Stack PQ4037.S867 1995 v.1-14 (c1995-c2005)
- Storia e testi della letteratura italiana. Giulio Ferroni et al. Torino: Einaudi scuola, 2002
Main Stack PQ4037.S76 2002 v.1:1-1:4
- Tuttolibri. Torino, Italy: La Stampa, 1975.
Main Stack fZ1035.4.T88
NRLF News/Micro MICROFILM 33565
- Twentieth-century Italian literature in English translation: an annotated bibliography 1929-1997. Robin Healey. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
Doe Refe PQ4051.H43 1998
- CD-ROM Resources
- Bibliografia generale italiana dal XV secolo al 1997. Munchen : K.G. Saur, c1998.
Doe Refe PQ4037.A12 .B5 1998 compu/d
- I commenti danteschi dei secoli XIV, XV e XVI. A cura di Paolo Procaccioli. computer file Roma : Lexis progetti editoriali, c1999.
Doe Refe PQ4335.C644 1999 compu/d
- La grande letteratura: il grande ipertesto della letteratura mondiale. Firenze : G. D'Anna Casa editrice, 1996
Main Stack PQ4201.G73 1996 compu/d
- Letteratura italiana Zanichelli : CD-ROM dei testi della letteratura italiana. A cura. Bologna : Zanichelli, c1997.
Doe Refe PQ4201.L47 1997 compu/d
Biographical Sources
Information about people, including biographical dictionaries, profiles of people or "Who's Whos", personal narratives, and other resources with significant biographical information.
*Dizionario autori italiani contemporanei. 3. ed. ampliata e
aggiornata. Milano : G. Miano, 2001.
Main Stack PQ4057.D58 2001
- *Dizionario biografico degli anarchici italiani. diretto da Maurizio Antonioli ... [et al.].
Pisa : BFS, 2003.
Main Stack HX902.5.D59 2003 v.1-2
- Dizionario biografico degli Italiani. Alberto M. Ghisalberti. Roma : Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1960- vols. 1-68 (A-Mangelli)
Doe Refe DG463.D58 Biographies
- Figure, figures : portraits de femmes et d'hommes célèbres, ou moins, dans la litterature italienne : [actes du colloque du CERCLI, Saint-Etienne, mai 2000]. Etudes reunies et presentees par Agnes Morini. Saint-Etienne : Publications de l'universite de Saint-Etienne, 2002.
Main Stack PQ4029.F55 2002
- Who's who in Italy. Milano : Who's Who in Italy, 1988-
Doe Refe DG 578 .W5 Biographies
Main Stack DG578.W5; Latest vol. in Doe Refe
Book and Film Review Sources
Listings of book [and film] reviews in journals, magazines, newspapers, etc. included in article databases and indexes, book review indexes, or review journals.
Country Data Sources
Sources of information about specific countries.
Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Quotations
General and subject specific dictionaries in any language, dual language dictionaries, thesauri, dictionaries of quotations, and acronym lists.
- Electronic Resource Finder
- Online Resources
- Dizionario Italiano - Garzanti Editore
- Online Italian-English / English-Italian Dictionary
- Italian Verb Conjugator ( Universita di Trieste)
- Print Resources
- Grande dizionario italiano dell'uso. Tullio De Mauro. Torino : UTET, 1999-2003.
Doe Refe PC1625 .D38 1999 Dictionaries
- Il vocabolario Treccani. 2 ed. Roma : Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, Fondata da Giovanni Trecanni, 1997.
Doe Refe PC 1625 .V53 1997 Dictionaries
- Dizionario monferrino : tratto dalle parlate di Castello di Annone, Rocchetta Tanaro, Cerro Tanaro, con note di fonetica, morfologia, etimologia e un glossario italiano-dialetto. Sergio Nebbia. Savigliano (Cuneo) : Editrice artistica piemontese, 2001.
Main Stack PC 1869 .M66 .N43 2001
- Grande dizionario della lingua italiana. v.1-21 (A-Z); suppl. 2004; Index Suppl.2
(1961-c2004). Salvatore Battaglia. Torino, Unione tipografico-editrice torinese, 1961.
Doe Refe PC 1625 .B3 Dictionaries
- *Il Ragazzini : dizionario inglese italiano, italiano inglese : 2008 / di Giuseppe Ragazzini. 4. ed. [rev., updated & restyled] Bologna : Zanichelli, 2007.
Doe Refe PC1640.R35 2007
- *Lo Zingarelli : vocabolario della lingua italiana. Nicola Zingarelli. 12. ed. A cura di Miro Dogliotti e Luigi Rosiello. Bologna : Zanichelli, 2006, c.1999.
Doe Refe PC1625.Z25 2006 Dictionaries
- CD-ROM Resources
- Il Gabrielli su CD-ROM. Elemond Interactive Education. Milano : Elemond Interactive Education, 1997, c1996.
Doe Refe PC 1625 .G337 1997 compu/d
Directories
Alphabetical or subject listings containing names, addresses, and identifying data of persons, organizations, publications, web sites, etc.
Dissertation and Thesis Sources
Sources for locating masters theses and doctoral dissertations.
Encyclopedias and Almanacs
General or subject-specific encyclopedias, almanacs, and other collections of factual information.
Government Information Sources
Listings of publications and other information published by authority of a governmental body, whether federal, state, local, or foreign, and of intergovernmental organizations, such as UNESCO, etc. Many of these sources include the full text of the items.
Handbooks, Manuals and Yearbooks
Collections of information designed to help practitioners in a specific field or profession, or in the case of yearbooks, to provide annually cumulated information in brief descriptive and statistic form.
Image and Sound Databases
Listings of material in audio or video format, photographs, paintings, or other visual materials. Some of these sources include or link to the actual items.
The European Library
*Internet Culturale (ICCU)
Library and Book Catalogs
Listings of books and other materials in libraries, including national bibliographies. Union catalogs list material in a group of libraries.
Use library catalogs to locate books and other materials on Italian Studies topics. To find an article or conference paper from a citation, look up the journal or conference proceedings where the item was published.
EDIT 16: Censimento delle edizioni italiane del XVI secolo - Census of 16th century Italian editions
Istituto Culturale per il Catologo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le Informazioni Bibliografiche
News Databases, Indexes and Web Sites
Listings (may include abstracts or full text) of articles in newspapers, newsmagazines, broadcast news transcripts or wire services. Also includes web sites of these media, or directories of such sites.
Organizations
Listings of subject-related associations, learned societies, or professional organizations.
Statistics and Numeric Data
Resources that provide tables of numerical information, or listings indicating where such information can be found.
Web Gateways and Search Engines
Broad, subject-related sites and subject-specific search engines available without restriction on the World Wide Web.
The European Library
*Internet Culturale (ICCU)
*Italian Studies Web (WESSweb)
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