Research Guides: Italian: Literature

Literature

MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Search for scholarly, international journals, books, and more, covering language, literature, composition, folklore, and film. Coverage: late 19th century to present. Some full text.
Gale Literary Criticism This link opens in a new window
Explore an authoritative source of literary criticism, summarizing authors' lives and works and including excerpts from scholarly articles. IMPORTANT NOTE: Because this source is an encyclopedic work, it should NEVER be directly cited. Always look up the original source of the excerpted and reprinted articles. Coverage: varies. Mostly full text.

If you need more help researching literature, see the guide for researching English and literature or contact the library liaison for these areas.

Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani
A great selection of Italian literary texts, from the origins to the present.
Biblioteca della Letteratura Italiana
A large digital library of Italian literature. All texts are in PDF format.
Intratext Digital Library
A collection of primary texts in Italian and other modern and ancient languages.
Biblioteca Italica - Biblioteca Augustana
A collection of primary texts in Italian and several other languages.
Decameron Web
A digital version of Boccaccio's Decameron with a tremendous amount of accompanying material.
Italian Libri
A web site dedicated to Italian literature, which makes available biographies of over 100 Italian authors from Dante to the present. Critical comments and overviews of hundreds of individual works of literature are also presented.
VoS:Literature in Italian
A huge collection of resources for literature.
Indice della Republica Letteraria
Online sources for Italian literature.

Duecento
A digital archive of Italian poetry.
Princeton Dante Project
A digital publication of all of Dante's work, with commentaries, translations, audio, and more.
Renaissance Dante in Print
Editions of the Divine Comedy from the University of Notre Dame and the Newberry Library.
American Dante Bibliography
Annotated copies of Dante bibliographies that have been published in Dante Studies.
Dartmouth Dante Project
Full text database of commentary on Dante's work.
Dante Project
Electronic editions of three 18th Century translations.
Dante's Divine Comedy - ELF
Collected online editions of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Dante Resources on the Web
List of links for Dante on the Web, some broken.
Dante Online
Biography, bibliography, and works organized and hosted by Società Dantesca Italiana.