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Italian History

Last Updated: 12-Dec-2012

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.

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  1. Biotech innovations and fundamental rights [electronic resource]

    Roberto Bin, Sara Lorenzon, Nicola Lucchi, editors. 2012

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. International bibliography of art [electronic resource].

    The bibliography provides authoritative coverage of international scholarship within the following broad parameters: European art from la...

  5. In Menelik's court [electronic resource].
  6. Cairn [electronic resource].

    Provides tables of contents and abstracts for journals in the disciplines of economics, law, history and geography, literature and lingui...

  7. World biographical information system [electronic resource].

    Index to biographical profiles of people from all centuries as well as all countries and regions worldwide.

  8. Eighteenth Century collections online [digital].

    Lane » Check Lane catalog for status » (No call number)

New Books in Italian History

DG is the subject call number for Italian history.

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  1. Studies in Italian history in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

    Nicolai Rubenstein ; edited by Giovanni Ciapelli. 2004

    Green » Stacks » JA84 .I8 E83 2004 ...

  2. From Garibaldi to Berlusconi : 150 years of italian history

    a film by Enrico Cerasuolo. 2011

    Green » Media-Microtext (Lower Level) » ZDVD 27901

  3. History of Italian philosophy

    Eugenio Garin ; introduction by Leon Pompa ; translated from Italian and edited by Giorgio Pinton. 2008

    Green » Stacks » B3551 .G3613 2008 ...

  4. Italiane

    a cura di Eugenia Roccella e Lucetta Scaraffia. 2004

    Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » CT3450 .I83 2004 ...

  5. Italian cuisine : a cultural history

    Alberto Capatti & Massimo Montanari ; translated by Aine O'Healy. 2003

    Green » Stacks » TX723 .C28313 2003

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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  1. Laberinto d'amore

    di M. Giouanni Boccaccio ; con una epistola à Messer Pino de Rossi confortatoria del medesimo auttore. 16th century

    Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (Non-circulating) » PQ4270 .C7 1500Z

  2. Opera di Faccio Degliuberti fiorentino chiamato Ditta mundi : uuolgare

    Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (Non-circulating) » PQ4556 .U2 D58 1501

  3. Commedia di Dante : insieme con uno dialogo circa el sito forma et misure dello inferno

    Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (Non-circulating) » PQ4302 .B06 1506

  4. Danthe Alighieri Fiorentino historiado

    Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (Non-circulating) » PQ4302 .B07 1507 F

  5. Opere del diuino poeta Danthe : con suoi comenti

    recorrecti et con ogne diligentia nouamente in littera cursiua impresse. 1512

    Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (Non-circulating) » PQ4302 .B12 1512

  6. Dante col sito, et forma dell'inferno

    Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (Non-circulating)Gunst Collection (Non-circulating) » PQ4302 .B15 1515 TZ239.6 .P34 D36 1515 T

  7. Dante col sito et forma dell'inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del poeta

    Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (Non-circulating)Gunst Collection (Non-circulating) » PQ4302 .B15 1515Z239.9 .A36 D19 1515 CB

  8. Opere del divino poeta Danthe con svoi comenti: recorrecti et con ogne diligentia novamente in littera cvrsiva impresse

    Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (Non-circulating) » PQ4302 .B20 1520

  9. Amorosa visione di Messer Giou. Bocc. nuouamente ritrouata : nella quale si co[n]te[n]gono cinq[ue] Triumphi, cioe Triumpho di sapie[n]tia, di gloria, di ricchezza, di amore, e di fortuna : Apologia di H. Claricio Immol. contro detrattori della poesia del Bocc. : osseruationi di uolgar gram[m]atica del Bocc

    Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (Non-circulating) » PQ4270 .A5 1521

  10. Conuiuio didante Alighieri fiorentino

    Special Collections » Rare Books Collection (Non-circulating) » PQ4310 .C2 1521