Italian Studies
Internet resources
As differentiated from our Library licensed databases, the large, curated catalogue of internet resources in the sections below are mostly free to access. In some cases users may be required to register or create an account. Every effort has been made by the Academic Support Librarian to ensure that the website content is suitable for academic study, but it is the user's own responsibility to check the authority, currency and accuracy of content.
Internet links
- BBC Country Profiles - ItalyFactual overview of Italy from BBC World.
- BBC Languages - ItalianArchived but contains some useful resources
- Casalini LibriOne of the leading suppliers of books from southern Europe.
- Decameron webDedicated to the life and work of Boccaccio (1313-1375).
- Digital DanteContains parallel transcriptions and translations of Dante's Divine Comedy and other works.
- Duecento : la poesia Italiana dalla origini a DanteContains the full texts of 2,400 poems by 200 authors written in and around the 13th century.
- ESSPER: periodici italiani di economia, scienze sociali e storiaSearchable bibliographic database of 357 Italian social science periodicals produced by the Universita Carlo Cattaneo in association with a consortium of 43 Italian libraries.
- initalianoweb.com An online, interactive Italian course suitable for beginners or improvers.
- Intralinea About translation studies. The majority of the articles here are in Italian.
- Italian Law on the WebIndex of websites and databases relating to Italian Law.
- Princeton Dante ProjectAn annotated electronic version of Dante’s Divine Comedy based on the edition by G. Petrocchi and published by Mondadori ( Milan, Italy 1966-67; 2nd ed. Florence, Le Lettere, 1994).
- RAI Cultura - Italiano: il grande portale della lingua italianoOnline campus of Italian language resources from Italian national broadcaster RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana).
- RAI Cultura: il portale di Rai dedicato alla culturaItalian culture portal from Italian national broadcaster RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana).
- Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)An exhibition presenting Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame.
- World Digital Library - EuropeThe WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.
- The World of DanteDedicated to the study of the 'Inferno' of Dante Alighieri's 'The Divine Comedy'.
News and newpapers
Organisations
- Governo ItalianoOffical website of the italian Government. In Italian only.
- Italian Consulate General - EdinburghOfficial website of the Consulate. In Italian and English.
- Italian Cultural Institute - EdinburghOfficial Italian governmental body dedicated to promoting Italian language and culturein Scotland and Northern Ireland organising a wide series of events.
- Italian Government Tourist BoardIn Italian and English.
- Society for Italian StudiesA site in English supporting academic Italian studies in the British Isles. It contains information for past and forthcoming conferences, and links to a wide range of Italian-related resources.
- Instituto Nazionale di StatisticaThe Italian National Institute of Statistics, a public research organisation, is the main producer of official statistics in the service of citizens and policy-makers.
Google Scholar
You can use Google Scholar to search for academic resources including journal articles, peer-reviewed papers, books and theses.
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RefSeek
RefSeek (https://www.refseek.com/) is a web and document search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, journals, and newspapers. You can also find a lot of English Literature related resources there.