Italian Studies Resources 

A primary source is a first-hand account of an event.

To Search the online catalog for primary sources, use Subject Headings for your topic and add words like

• diaries, letters, interviews
• oral histories
• personal narratives, personal memoir
  
• sources, law, report, government commission

For example:

Germany -History- WWII -1939-1945--Personal narratives)

• Talk with Special Collections Library staff
  
• Browse Primary Sources Research Databases
  

• The Western European Studies Collection at Duke
• Western European Studies Resources at Duke

• Italian Studies Guide at Yale

• Italian Studies Guide at Harvard

• Archivi: Portale ufficiale dell'amministrazione archivistica italiana 
• Duke - Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library - Italian Studies
• Fondazione Istituto Gramsci
• Guida ai fondi degli archivi di Stato italiani 
• Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento
• The Medici Archive Project
• Villa I Tati: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies 
• Guide to Italian libraries and archives
  Lewanski, Rudolf J.
  New York : Council for European Studies, c1979.
  Library Service Center | 027.02545 L669, G946, 1979 LSC
• International directory of archives = Annuaire international des archives.
  München ; New York : K.G. Saur, 1992.
  Perkins/Bostock | 025.171 A673, v. 38 In process-LC
• Italian post-1600 manuscripts and family archives in North American libraries
  Wells, Mariz X.
  Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1992.
  Library Service Center| 015.45 W455, I88, 1992 LSC

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