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Italian Studies

Guide to Resources in Italian Literature and History

Bibliographies and Catalogs

Currently received bibliography journals and indexing databases continuously add new content, but completed bibliographies (organized by period or by subject) have a limited scope in the publication period they cover. Some of the content gathered in specialized completed print bibliographies is not yet available online. Here is a selection of major bibliographies, to find more use the subject Italian Literature Bibliography in the Duke Catalog

Current

  • Bibliografia generale della lingua e della letteratura italiana [serial] : BiGLI. 
  • La Rassegna della letteratura italiana.
  • Letteratura italiana, aggiornamento bibliografico.
  • L'Informazione bibliografica [serial].  At UNC Davis
  • Manuale critico-bibliografico per lo studio della letteratura italiana (Newest at UNC Davis)
  • MLA International Bibliography
  • Romanische Bibliographie [serial] = Bibliographie romane = Romance bibliography.EARLIER in Digizeitschriften: Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie 

The Medieval Period

  • Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists and of the world of classical scholarship in Italy.
  • Checklist of non-Italian humanists, 1300-1800.
  • Iter Italicum; a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries
  • Medieval studies: a bibliographical guide
  • Serial bibliographies for medieval studies.
  • The medieval literature of western Europe; a review of research, mainly 1930-1960.

The 16th 17th and 18th Centuries

  • Autori italiani del '600. [Catalogo bibliografico]
  • Bibliografia delle stampe popolari a carattere profano dei secoli XVI e XVII conservate nella Biblioteca nazionale di Firenze
  • Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists and of the world of classical scholarship in Italy
  • Catalogue of seventeenth century Italian books in the British Library
  • Checklist of non-Italian humanists, 1300-1800.
  • Elizabethan translations from the Italian
  • Italian seventeenth century books : indexes of authors, titles, dates, printers and publishers alphabetically and by place, based on the Libreria Vinciana's Autori Italiani del '600
  • Onomasticon; repertorio biobibliografico degli scrittori italiani dal 1501 al 1850
  • Répertoire des ouvrages imprimés en langue italienne au XVIIe siècle.
  • Saggi di bibliografia testuale
  • Short-title catalog of books printed in Italy and of books in Italian printed abroad, 1501-1600, held in selected North American libraries
  • Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Library

The 19th andd 20th Centuries

  • Bibliografia nazionale italiana [electronic resource] CD
  • Bibliografia nazionale italiana. Catalogo alfabetico annuale
  • Catalogo cumulativo 1886-1957 del Bollettino delle publicazioni italiane ricevute per diritto di stampa dalla Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze
  • Catalogo generale della libreria italiana dall'anno 1847 a tutto il 1899, compilato dal prof. Attilio Pagliaini.
  • Dizionario critico della letteratura italiana del Novecento
  • Italian women writers : a bio-bibliographical sourcebook
  • Manuale critico-bibliografico per lo studio della letteratura italiana (find newer editions in Worldcat)
  • Novecento letterario italiano : repertorio bibliografico : strumenti per lo studio e la ricerca
  • Novecento letterario italiano: repertorio bibliografico.
  • Repertorio bibliografico della letteratura italiana

Literary Histories

The Cambridge history of Italian literature
Peter Brand and Lino Pertile
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Perkins/Bostock Library | Stacks | 850.9 C178, 1999

A history of Italian literature
Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1974.
Perkins/Bostock Library | Stacks | 850.9 W684HA

Italian novelists since World War II, 1945-1965
edited by Augustus Pallotta
Detroit : Gale Research, 1997.
Library Service Center | 810.9 D554, 1978, v. 177 LSC

La Letteratura italiana. Storia e testi [serial].
Milano, R. Ricciardi, 1951-
Perkins/Bostock Library | Stacks (III) | 850.8 L651
Perkins/Bostock Library | Stacks | 850.8 L651

La Rassegna della letteratura italiana [serial]
Firenze [etc.] G. C. Sansoni [etc.]
Perkins/Bostock Library | Periodicals | R228
Perkins/Bostock Library | Current Periodicals and Newspapers | R228

Novecento letterario italiano : repertorio bibliografico : strumenti per lo studio e la ricerca
Iurilli, Antonio
Bari, Italy : Palomar, c1996.
Library Service Center | 016.8509 I92, N937, 1996 LSC

The Oxford book of Italian verse, xiiith century-xixth century
Oxford, Clarendon Press [1952]
Perkins/Bostock Library | Stacks | 851.08 O98A

Storia della letteratura italiana
Cecchi, Emilio
Milano, Garzanti, 1965-
Perkins/Bostock Library | Stacks | 850.9 C387S

Storia della literatura italiana
Flora, Francesco
[Milano] Mondadori [1959]
Perkins/Bostock Library | Stacks | 850.9 F632S

The Year's work in modern language studies [electronic resource]
London [etc.] Modern Humanities Research Association [etc.]

Dissertations

 

Center for Research Libraries Catalog

Dissertations &Theses

Worldcat

Reynolds, Michael M. 
Guide to theses and dissertations: an international bibliography of bibliographies.
Edition  Rev. and enl. ed.  Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1985. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Reference | LB2369 .R496 1985