ITALIAN STUDIES RESEARCH GUIDE

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Dictionaries

The major Italian dictionaries available in the Reference Room include:

  • De Mauro, Tullio, and Marco Mancino. Garzanti etimologico: i grandi dizionari. Milano: Garzanti linguistica, 2000.
    Ref PC1580.D37
  • Pattàno, Giuseppe. Sinonimi e contrari: dizionario fraseologico, delle parole equivalenti, analoghe e contrarie. Bologna: Zanichelli, 1998.
    Ref PC1591.P58

  • De Mauro, Tullio. Grande dizionario italiano dell'uso. Torino: UTET, 2000.
    Ref PC1625.D38

  • Zingarelli, Nicola. Lo Zingarelli 2004: vocabolario della lingua italiana. Bologna: Zanichelli, 2003.
    Ref PC1625.Z5

  • Bareggi, Maria Cristina, ed. DII Dizionario: inglese-italiano, italiano-inglese. Torino: Paravia, in collaboration with Oxford University Press, 2001.
    Ref PC1640.O97

  • Ragazzini, Giuseppe. Il Ragazzini: dizionario inglese italiano, italiano inglese. Bologna: Zanichelli, 2005.
    Ref PC1640.R26

Grammars

  • Maiden, Martin. Reference Grammar of Modern Italian. London: Arnold, 2000.
    Ref PC1112.M26

  • Trifone, Pietro. Grammatica italiana di base. Bologna: Zanichelli, 2000.
    Ref PC1112.T75

Anthologies and Encyclopedias

  • Baranski, Zygmunt G., and Rebecca J. West. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
    Ref DG451.C35

  • Enciclopedia della letteratura italiana Oxford-Zanichelli. Bologna: Zanichelli, 2004.
    Ref PQ4006.O84
    CD 0047

  • Ferroni, Giulio. Storia e testi della letteratura italiana. Milano: Mondadori, 2002.
    Ref PQ4037.F45

  • Gioanola, Elio. Antologia della letteratura italiana. Milano: Librex, 1987.
    Ref PQ4049.G37

  • La letteratura italiana. Novara: De Agostini, 2005.
    Ref PQ4037.S67

  • Moliterno, Gino, ed. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. London: Routledge, 2000.
    Ref DG450.E53

On-line Sources

Here you may find a list of pertinent on-line resources.

  • Oxford Reference Online contains English-Italian dictionaries and other quick reference sources, including quotations, maps, timelines, and illustrations.

  • The Literary Encyclopedia provides biographical information about major literary, cultural, philosophical and historical figures; descriptive profiles of major cultural works, introductory coverage of the relevant historical contexts and guidance to valuable secondary readings.

    Note: the links mentioned above work only when you are on-campus. To use these resources from off-campus, start from the databases webpage

 

BOOK SEARCHING

Most of the books in Italian or on Italian studies can be found on the shelves under PC and PQ in the Library of Congress Classification System. In particular, books on Italian language are located under PC1001-1977, and books on Italian literature under PQ4001-4999. Other books related to Italian studies may be found under DG.

The Library catalog allows different kind of searches, including Subject Keyword and Subject Browse. A Subject Keyword search will retrieve all the subject strings containing the word you searched for. A Subject Browse search will lead to the controlled subject headings list. Determining which "controlled" subject headings are established for aspects of a topic is an important step in finding relevant material. You may want to browse on the broader subject (e.g. Italian literature) to find out what’s available in the Library.

Some examples of official subject headings and heading patterns are listed below:

For a selection of Italian short stories and other helpful books for learning the Italian language, the subjects to look for are:

 

ITALIAN FILMS

The Library has a wide collection of films. Among them, Italian films (either in Italian or by Italian directors) may be found in the catalog using the following subject search:

 

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

The library does not subscribe to print journals in this field. A large collection of electronic journals is available through library databases such as JSTOR and EBSCO (Academic Search Premier).

Below are some of the journals available in full-text, which are directly accessible through Journals, A to Z:

Last updated: 22-4-2009