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Browsing Areas

PC 1001-2000 – Italian language

Note: Books are located in Carrier Library and may be shelved either in Reference on the first floor or on the third floor in the circulating collection.

Dictionaries

2006 Parole nuove
Call Number: PC1630 .A32 2005
Location: Carrier Reference
Dizionario etimologico dei dialetti italiani
Call Number: PC1761 .C673 2005
Location: Carrier Stacks
Garzanti linguistica
Online Italian dictionary. Free but requires registration.
Grande dizionario italiano dell’uso
Call Number: PC1625 .G73 2000
Location: Carrier Reference
Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary
Call Number: PC1640 .O95 2010
Location: Carrier Reference

Grammars & Conjugation Guides

Grande grammatica italiana di consultazione
Call Number: PC1105 .G73 2001
Location: Carrier Stacks
Modern Italian Grammar: A Practical Guide
Call Number: PC1129 .E5 P76 2005
Location: Carrier Stacks
Grammatica avanzata della lingua italiana: con esercizi
Call Number: PC1112 .N63 2006
Location: Carrier Stacks
Grammatica italiana
Call Number: PC1112 .T48 2008
Location: Carrier Stacks

Idioms & Quotations

Uffa!: espressioni idiomatiche e...molto di più
Call Number: PC1460 .P47 2007
Location: Carrier Stacks

Pronunciation Guides

I suoni delle lingue, i suoni dell'italiano: introduzione alla fonetica
Call Number: P221 .M37 2006
Location: Carrier Stacks
Suoni, accento e intonazione: corso di ascolto e pronuncia dell'italiano per stranieri
Call Number: PC1139 .S86 2000
Location: Carrier Stacks

Reference Information

Dictionary of Italian Literature
Call Number: PQ4006 .D45 1996
Location: Carrier Stacks
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
Call Number: PQ4006 .O84 2002
Location: Carrier Stacks
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature
Call Number: PQ4038 .C35 1996
Location: Carrier Stacks
Storia e testi di letteratura italiana per stranieri
Call Number: PQ4042 .S76 2004
Location: Carrier Stacks

Find Primary Sources

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Connects to Italian historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.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 Studies Web
This portal provides access to a wide-variety of online resources in Italian studies.
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.