LIBRARY GUIDE TO Italian

 Italian / English dictionaries:

Italian language Dictionaries at KL
Collins Italian Dictionary online

Language:

Schaum's Outline of Italian Grammar (online)
Italian language Readers
Italian grammar (University of Toronto)

Library OneSearch
Use the catalog to find books, videos, recordings, and goverment documents we have at the library.

MelCat
A statewide catalog of many of Michigan's libraries. It allows you to request books at another library be sent to Kresge Library for you.

• Italian History
• Italian History, 20th century
• Italy Civilization
• Italian literature

Interlibrary Loan
You may request materials we don't have and we'll borrow them from another library for you.

Print and online encyclopedias:

The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Dante
The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel
The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature
Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia
Historical Dictionary of Fascist Italy
 

JSTOR Includes Italica.

Project MUSE Includes Italian Culture (2005-2008)

MLA International Bibliography
A subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, the history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 1700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages since 1955. How to export to RefWorks

Bollettino '900
An online bulletin dedicated primarily, but not exclusively, to the discussion of Italian literature. It publishes articles related to a broad range of Italian literary issues.
 

Biblioteca Italiana: Full text of Italian works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Liber Liber (Progetto Manuzio): May be the most extensive full-text e-library for Italian literature (out of copyright).

Danteworlds: an integrated multimedia journey--combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings--through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante's Divine Comedy.

Dartmouth Dante project:  a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy (between 1321 and 2003).

Decameron Web:  text in its established critical edition (Branca), as well as information about sources, translations,the historical context, and bibliographies.

Libretti d'opera italiani: Site dedicated to Italian libretti d'opera.

Italian Women Writers: Works published by Italian women from the late 12th century to the present.

Il Narratore: This publishing houses manages a free online archive of audio files of Italian literary works narrated by actors.

Letteratura.it: List of resources about Italian literature

 

• Searching for Foreign-Language Material in JSTOR

 

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