The majority of the Italian collection can be found at the University Library. Most of the books are in closed stacks and can be requested through the Catalogue. Reference works and other relevant books are available on the first floor.

Reference collection

Items from the reference collection can not be borrowed, but it is possible to make copies or scans. The reference collection comprises:

• Reference works and bibliographies
• Primary and secondary literature on an array of subjects
• A selection of the most important dictionaries
• Journals (only current issues)

The reference collection is organized by the Library of Congress Classification (LCC). Books in the field of Italian are mostly found in these classes:

• PC : Italian language
• PR : Italian literature
• Z : Bibliographies
• C : Philosophy

Journals

Current issues of paper journals in the field of Italian Language and Literature are placed in the round journal cabinets at the entrance to reading room 6. The back issues of some important journals are located in the S-UB. (basement, stairs next to the Information desk). Most back issues are in Closed Stacks and can be requested through the catalogue.

The following reference works can be consulted digitally. Paper reference works can be found in the study area. 

Brand and Pertile (1996) The Cambridge history of Italian literature

Jossa (2024) The Oxford handbook of Italian literature

Bondanella and Cicciarelli (2006) The Cambridge companion to the Italian novel

Barański (2006) The Cambridge companion to modern Italian culture

Wyatt (2014) The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

Jones and Pasquino (2019) The Oxford handbook of Italian politics

Barański  (2019) The Cambridge companion to Dante's Commedia

Armstrong et al. (2015) The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio

Ascoli et al. (2015) The Cambridge companion to Petrarch

Italinemo indexes many journals on Italian Language and Culture on title of article or journal, author or keywords.

BiGLLI Bibliografica Generale della Lingua e della Letteratura Italiana

The MLA is an important bibliography for language and literature, also for Italian. For language there is also the Linguistic Bibliography online.

The Language and Linguistic Behavior Abstracts is an important resource to find publications on Italian linguistics.

Van Dale online woordenboeken contains a Dutch-Italian and Italian -Dutch dictionary

L’enciclopedia italiana : Vocabolario & Dizionario biografico degli Italiani

Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini

Opera del Vocabolario italiano

Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana

Dizionario italiano multimediale e multilingue d’ortografia e di pronunzia

Learning Italian

Italiano per stranieri learning resource for foreign students.

ALMA TV online lessons for Italian language and culture.

Intercultura language tests from Prof. Anna.

Texts and audiobooks

Liber Liber provides freely downloadable editions of classics of Italian literature (or foreign authors in Italian translation) up to the 20th century.

Italian Women Writers provides access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors, from the 13^th century to authors born in 1945

LibriVox Italian Audiobooks.

CLASSICI Audiolibri, Indice degli audiolibri gratuiti dei classici della letteratura (classicipodcast.it)
 

Online Dante resources

Illuminated manuscripts:

Yates Thompson MS 36 (British Library, London)

Urb.Lat. 365 (Vatican Library, Rome)

Musee Condé MS 597 (Chateau de Chantilly)

MS Holkham misc. 48 (Bodleian Library, Oxford)

The Illuminated Dante Project collects hundreds of manuscript illuminations, searchable per verse, theme, or type of decoration. 

Manuscripts important for textual history:

Codice Trivulziano 1080 (Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milano) is one of the oldest manuscripts of the Commedia, copied in 1337 in Florence.

Vat Lat 3199 (Vatican Library, Rome) was given to Petrarch by Boccaccio. Later owned by Bernardo and Pietro Bembo, it was the basis of the 1502 Aldine text.

Dante in early prints

Dante 1481 - Printing Revolution | 1450 - 1500 Charts all known surviving copies of the famous 1481 Landino edition of the Commedia.

Dante digital Library digital collections of the John Rylands library in Manchester, including digitized versions of almost all incunabula and all other prints up to 1550.

More illustrated Commedia's

Divine Comedy by William Blake

Divine Comedy by Federico Zuccari

Divine Comedy by Sandow Birk

Divine Comedy by Sandro Botticelli (85 out of the 92 surviving images, held by Kupferstichkabinet Berlin) The remaining 7 images can be found in Reg.Lat.1896 (Vatican Library Rome)

Through DivineComedy.Digital more illustrations of the Divine Comedy from any era can be found. 

Other

The Dartmouth Dante Project is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on the Commedia.

Digital Dante is a project from Columbia University. You can find text, translation, commentary, recordings and many other materials on the reception of the Commedia. 

Dante Today | Citings & Sightings of Dante in Contemporary Culture crowd sourced platform tracing modern adaptions and appearances of Dante.

Italian journals on the internet

Catalogo Italiano dei Periodici

Rivisteweb: collezione italiana di riviste di scienze umane e sociali

Circe: progetto di diffusione in veste digitale dei periodici importanti nella storia culturale dell'Europa del XX secolo

The Torrossa Online Digital Library contains Italian Open Access journal articles and monographs.

Umanistica Digitale (unibo.it) open access journal of the Italian Association of Digital Humanities
 

Photo's

• Photography and travel photography of Italy, among others famous buildings in Rome, Florence and other cities (from the nineteenth century)
• Large collection of nineteenth/early twentieth century photography of Italian art, architecture and urban landscapes by the oldest photography company in the world, the Florentine Fratelli Alinari (since 1852)
• Sestri Land Florence in twentieth-century documentary photography by Emmy Andriesse (1914-1953)

Maps and atlases

• Map collection of Isaac Vossius, 184 sixteenth-century Italian maps (COLLBN 002-01-001 t/m COLLBN 002-08-022) and about 25 atlases.
• Approx. 500 maps and charts, military maps and city maps of Italy, including manuscript maps (sixteenth century et seq.; see Bodel Nijenhuis, 198 t/m 200) and about 10 atlases of Italy
• Approx. 1000 topographical prints (sixteenth century ff) of Italy

Manuscripts and old prints

Medieval manuscripts

• Manuscripts with texts in Italian: BPL 2887 (Petrarca) BPL 3072 (Vita Santo Francesco)
• Latin manuscripts made in Italy: 400

Post-medieval manuscripts and archives

• Manuscripts with texts in Italian, including: Documenti sul Giansenismo (BPL 2083), Relatione della Corte e governo di Rome (BPL 3087), Astrologia Universalis, etc. (BPL 3161), Viaggio del serenissimo principe Cosimo di Toscana (BPL 3294), Horticello di Fiori (BPL 3480), Relazione di tutto il successo della vittoria de Imperiali contro Bohemi (MAR 74), Relatione di tutti li principi et republiche d'Italia (VGG F 12). 

Letters

• Search by name in the Catalogue. Also see Subject Guide Letters.

Drawings

• A small but interesting collection Italian drawings by Federico Zuccaro, Filippino Lippi, Guercino, Ubaldo Gandolfi, Lelio Orsi en Jacopo Zucchi.

• Italian prints from the sixteenth till the nineteenth century, including, inter alia, graphics after artists as Raphael, Michelangelo en Leonardo.

Other

• Several publications from Italy are in the collections of UBL, Bibliotheca Thysiana en Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (16th-19th century). See also Subject Guide Early Printed Books.
• Music scores from Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764)
• Dante-collection of Mrs. Tilly Van de Sande-Swart

Paisà Corpus Italiano the Italian National Corpus

Sketch Engine contains the corpus Italian Web 2020 (itTenTen20) and The Italian web corpus (itWaC).

CORIS/CODIS Corpus of Written Italian (unibo.it)

Corpus KIParla a resource for spoken Italian.