Italian Writing Guide
Databases
- Italian Women Writers The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors. IWW includes authors from the beginning of Italian literature in the late 12th and 13th centuries up to authors born in 1945. The following types of works are included: anthologies, articles and essays, autobiographies, biographies, children's literature, devotional works, dialogues, diaries, dramas, epics, hagiographies, histories and chronicles, interviews and conversations, letters, memoirs, novels, operas, poems, reviews, short stories, and travel literature.
- Liber Liber This e-book repository includes digital copies of out-of-copyright editions of works by many Italian authors, and makes them available for free download.
- Biblioteca della Lettertura Italiana A digital library of Italian literature
- Braidense in Digitale Digital library of collections from the Braidense National Library in Milan. Includes newspapers, monographs, and more.
- FLORE (Florence Research), University of Florence Institutional repository of the University's research by students and faculty.
- Cultural Internet: Catalogs and Digital Collections of Italian Libraries The primary objective of the cultural Internet is to promote knowledge of the bibliographic and documentary heritage by also offering cultural insights into the library collections through multimedia resources dedicated to literary, scientific and musical culture. etc.; offers itself as a reference point for those who are stakeholders in the world of books; as an Italian thematic aggregator of digital content, it aspires to welcome the results of these activities carried out by libraries of different administrative nature.
- L'Archivio Collection of Italian literature, poetry and more digitized by the Associazione Italiana Autori Scrittori Artisti
- Associazione ESSPER, periodici italiani di economia, scienze sociali e storia Index of Italian language journals.
- BiASA: Periodici Italiani Digitizzati A database of 117 newspapers, for a total of 785,321 images, owned by the Library and published between the 18th and early decades of the 20th century.
Journals
Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian StudiesInternational journal of Italian Studies based at Stony Brook University, NY. The journal is intended as a meeting-place where scholars, critics, and teachers can present their views on the literature, language, and culture of Italy and other countries in relation to Italy.
Annali d'ItalianisticaPublisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Romance Languages and Literature
Promotes the study of Italian literature in its cultural context, fosters scholarly excellence, and publishes select topics of interest to a large number of Italianists.
ItalicaFeatures original scholarly articles on all aspects of Italian language, literature, and culture as well as studies on language pedagogy.
GENDER/SEXUALITY/ITALYAn online annual, peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on gendered identities and the ways they intersect with and produce Italian politics, culture, and society.
Reference Books
Collins Italian Dictionary by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2005Up-to-date coverage of today's language Offers over 40,000 entries and 70,000 translations Easy-to-use format Contains commonly used phrases and idioms Main irregular verb forms given Includes most common abbreviations, acronyms, and geographic names Pronunciations for English and Italian shown in the International Phonetic AlphabetEuRom5 by
Call Number: Permanent Reserve - Circulation Desk PC43 .E97 2011ISBN: 9788820345440Publication Date: 2011
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature by Call Number: eBookEmbracing the whole of Italian literature, from the early thirteenth century to the present, this work takes a broad view of what constitutes literature, covering historical writing, travel writing, theatre, and philosophy as well as the novel, poetry, literary dialogues, and critical theory.
The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 1985Within the vast literature of the Renaissance, this is the one indispensable book: for the student who wants a guide to the complicated maze of Italian Renaissance political history; the scholar who needs a convenient, unified reference source; the art lover who wants to check facts and discover the background to the masterpieces of painting and sculpture; the traveler in Italy who wants to understand the great works of art and architecture in their context; and also the general reader who wants to find out more about this fascinating and important historical and cultural epoch.
Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2008Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2014Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today, focusing on topics of spatial and cultural boundaries, border identities, and expressions of excluded identities.
Dissertations & Theses
- DART-EuropeA single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)