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Italian History

Last Updated: 22-Jan-2013

This guide contains materials for conducting research in Italian history.

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Italian History Databases

Stanford University Library provides the community with a variety of online databases to facilitate research.  If you are interested in searching multiple databases in Italian history simultaneously, consult Xsearch.  Please note that the Torossa database is not searchable through Xsearch. 

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  1. Nineteenth Century collections online [electronic resource].

    A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century; will be compri...

  2. data.gouv.fr [electronic resource] : plateforme française d'ouverture des données publiques (open data)

    [développé par Etalab].. 2011

    The Government of France's Open Data platform. Access over 350,000 datasets from over 90 producers, on topics such as agriculture, climat...

  3. Torrossa [electronic resource] : Casalini full text platform

    Online resource offering full text access to Italian and Spanish books, conference proceedings, and journals by major Italian and Spanish...

  4. Ethnographic video online [electronic resource].

    Intended to be a visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. Contains classic and contemporary document...

  5. Oxford bibliographies online. Renaissance and Reformation [electronic resource].

    Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on the period of the Renaissance and Reformation, which spans roughly from the 14th through...

  6. Early European books [electronic resource] : printed sources to 1700

    Diverse array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Opens the door to some of the world's most sig...

  7. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon online [electronic resource].

    .The most comprehensive German-language encyclopedia of world literature. Covers 13,000 important works of world literature, from the ear...

  8. Electronic Enlightenment [electronic resource]

    University of Oxford Humanities Division. 2008

    Searchable and browseable database offering extensive access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of th...

New Books in Italian History

DG is the subject call number for Italian history.

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  1. Adapting Canonical Texts in Children's Literature

    Edited by Anja Müller. 2013

    Green Library » Stacks » PN1008.8 .A34 2013

  2. Aesthetic modernism and masculinity in fascist Italy

    John Champagne. 2013

    Art & Architecture Library » Stacks » NX180 .F3 C44 2013

  3. Art, intellect and politics : a diachronic perspective

    edited by Giusy M. A. Margagliotta and Andrea A. Robiglio. 2013

    Art & Architecture Library » Stacks » NX180 .P64 A795 2013

  4. Associazionismo ed emigrazione : storia delle colonie libere e degli italiani in Svizzera

    Toni Ricciardi. 2013

    Green Library » Stacks » DQ49 .I9 R53 2013

  5. Gli attentati e le stragi che hanno sconvolto l'Italia

    Andrea Accorsi, Daniela Ferro. 2013

    Green Library » Stacks » HV6433 .I8 A23 2013

Important source works for Italian History

Modern Italian history : an annotated bibliography / compiled by Frank J. Coppa and William Roberts. Z2358 .C67 1990

Rerum italicarum scriptores. Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli [etc.]. DG403.M85

Storia d'Italia. Ed. by Ruggiero Romano and Corrado Vivanti. 6 vols. Turin: Einaudi, 1972-76. DG467.S794. The final volume is a Dizionario storico with a chronology and historical atlas.

Storia d'Italia : annali.Turin: Einaudi, 1978- DG467.S795.  Critical studies published as a companion to the 6 vol. Storia d’Italia.

Storia dell'Italia repubblicana. 4 vols.Turin: Einaudi, 1994- . DG577.5.S76 1994

Early Modern Italy 1550-1800
Ricabim

Italian Microfilm Collections

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  1. [Italian colonies : pamphlet collection] [microform].

    Hoover Library » Microfilm » NX4599 MFILM

  2. [Italian history : pamphlet collection] [microform].

    Hoover Library » Microfilm » NX4292 MFILM

  3. [Italian industry : pamphlet collection] [microform].

    Hoover Library » Microfilm » NX4390 MFILM

  4. Italian magazine [electronic resource].
  5. Italian poetry, [electronic resource] : Selected from the best authors by Agostino Isola, late teacher of the Italian language in the University of Cambridge, and Translated into English verse by some gentleman of that University
  6. Italian dialogues, [electronic resource] : consisting of familiar expressions upon various subjects; Dedicated to the Lovers of the Italian Language in the University of Cambridge. By A. I.
  7. The italian, [electronic resource] : or the confessional of the black penitents. A romance. By Ann Radcliffe, Author of the Mysteries of Udolpho, &c. &c. In three volumes
  8. The italian, [electronic resource] : or the confessional of the black penitents. A romance. By Ann Radcliffe, author of the mysteries of Udolpho, &c. &c. In three volumes
  9. The italian, [electronic resource] : or, the confessional of the black penitents. A romance. By Ann Radcliffe, author of the mysteries of Udolpho, &c. &c. In two volumes
  10. Italian love [electronic resource] : or, eunuchism displayed. Describing all the different kinds of eunuchs; shewing the esteem they have met with in the world, and how they came to be made So. Wherein Principally is examined, whether they are capable of Marriage, and if they ought to be suffered to enter into that Holy State. The whole confirmed by the Authority of Civil, Canon, and Common Law, and illustrated with many remarkable Cases by way of Precedent. Also a comparison between some celebrated modern Italian eunuchs, with Observations thereon. Occasioned by a young lady's falling in love with one, who sung in the Opera at the Hay-Market, and to whom she had like to be married. Written by a person of honour

Notable primary sources and collections at Stanford for Italian history

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