Contents:

• Find books
• Find background information
• Find articles & essays
• Key scholarly websites

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Wellesley College Library catalog

Worldcat
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Language Resources

Cambridge Italian-English, English-Italian Dictionary. (Clapp Ref PC1640 .R4)

Grande Dizionario della Lingua Italiana. (Clapp Ref PC1625 .B3) 9 volumes and a 10th Index volume

Vocabolario della Linga Italiana. (Clapp Ref PC1625 D87 1986) 5 volumes

Background Information

Dictionary of Italian Literature. (Clapp Ref PQ 4006 D45)

Dizionario Encylopedico Italiano. (Clapp Ref AE35 .D516)

Dictionary of Modern Italian History. (Clapp Ref DG545 .D53 1985)

Dizionario Bompiani delle opere e dei personaggi di tutti i tempi e di tutte le letterature. (Clapp Ref AE35 .D49 1983)

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. (Clapp Ref DG450 .E53 2000)

Film Literature Index. 1973- (Clapp Ref Z5784.M9 F45). This index can be used to find articles about aspects of film,video, and television in all languages. (See database description below).

Historical Dictionary of Fascist Italy. (Clapp Ref DG571.A1 H57)

New Century Italian Renaissance Encyclopedia. (Clapp Ref DG5378.A1 N48)

Find articles & essays

Academic Search Premier 

The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. Dates of coverage vary by title

Facts on File World News Digest 1940 to the present A database of news digests written by Facts on File editors since 1940. The database also includes special features such as: historical documents, maps, speeches, historic events, what happened on that day, and top stories of the year.

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus - An index to articles on film and TV from 300 academic and popular film journals, including full text from the most important journals, from 1972 to present

Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text  has articles on film and television theory, writing, production, cinematography, reviews, and more, 1914 to present

Historical Abstracts 1954-.
A major index to articles and books on the history of the world since 1450, excluding United States and Canada. 1954 +

JSTOR contains a scholarly collection of journal articles that cover the major disciplines from the first issues of that journal but NOT the last five years.

LexisNexis Academic Full-text of national and Italian newspapers, magazines, documents, wire services and more. None before 1980 and later dates will vary by title.

MLA Bibliography 1963-.
Use this to find articles, books, and chapters in books about Italian literature and film in all languages.

Periodicals Index Online (formerly Periodicals Contents Index/PCI) is an index to articles published in over 4,500 periodicals, in as many as 40 languages, and covering topics in the humanities and social sciences.

Project Muse  Academic journals in the humanities & social sciences, from the past five years - see JSTOR for prior years

Other databases may be useful for you, depending on your specific topic and approach. AskUs and get some customized suggestions.

Key scholarly websites

General

Italian History Index
Comprehensive guide to Italian history on the Web, from the World Wide Web Virtual Library.

Intute:Arts & Humanities has over 21,000 Web resources available. Click on Italian under European Languages section

Italian News and Magazines
An MIT site with an alphabetical selection of Italian newspapers and magazines.

Italian Studies Web
A high-quality site from the Association for College and Research Libraries Western European studies section.

Language, Literature, Theatre, and Film

Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana
Selected online texts in Italian literature.

Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani
An electronic library links to Italian authors, periods, & texts. There are essays by over 200 authors.

Biblioteca Italiana
Primary Italian texts from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Cineforum
The online version of Italy's pre-eminent film journal.

Digital Dante
Created by Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies.

Language Links: Italian Resources has sections on Culture & History, Country/City Tours, Literature & Language, & Media sections.

Liber Liber is a non-profit cultural organization providing online texts of over 1,300 litarary titles and 1,700 classical music pieces.

Travlang's Italian-English On-line Dictionary

Voice of the Shuttle --Italian Literature
Excellent guide to Italian literature sites on the Web

Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Jacqueline Fitzpatrick • last modified: June 9, 2008