Italian Studies

A digital library of world literature in different languages with a chronological or alphabetical Index; includes images of the period BC.

Full text of works by 205 Italian authors.

Italian poetry from the beginning until Dante. Texts are searchable by phrases. Go to "ricerca" and type in the phrase you are looking for.

Wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts & academic material available freely online. To limit to Italian texts, go to 'Advanced Search' & select 'language' from the 'Custom field' drop down menu.

Catalogues and digital collections of Italian libraries.

Includes a collection of dialect poetry organized by author & region as well as language resources, essays & bibliographies.

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.

Liber Liber is a non-profit cultural association whose aim is the promotion of any kind of artistic and intellectual expression. It holds ebooks, audiobooks and music.

The production database contains 1960 vernacular texts (22.3 million words, 456,000 unique forms) the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers.

Project Gutenberg offers over 50,000 free ebooks. Browsing by language enables finding books in Italian.

Full text of the Decameron, concordances as well as reference & critical material

The English-Italian text of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso with further general information about Dante.

Searchable full text of the Commedia & minor works as well as commentary.

Full text versions of the Divine Comedy, works by Dante's contemporaries as well as reference & critical resources.

The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.

This exhibition presents Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with selected treasures from The Newberry Library.

Website of the University of Pisa.

Full text of Pico's "De hominis dignitate" as well as reference & critical material.