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Dartmouth Dante Project
A searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.
EuroDocs, Italy
Connects to Italian historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. From the antiquity to the present.
The European Library
A portal for quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries.
Europeana
A digitized multimedia library of the European cultural heritage: digitized books, manuscripts, photos, paintings, maps, audio and film material, newspapers, etc.
Italian Women Writers Project
Provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors from the 13th century through those born in 1945.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
This multifaceted tool places art works from the Metropolitan Museum's collection within geographical and chronological context. It has excellent thematic essays (background information) that cover the historical eras and cultures that produced the works of art (the primary sources), along with maps and key events from each place and time period.