E-Texts in Italian Studies

• More and more, researchers are asking where to search the complete works of a writer, or how to search an entire novel.
• The increasing number of full-text literary works on the Internet and on CD-ROM's has begun to change the way literary scholars work.
• Searching across the entire corpus of a writer, the ability to create concordances, the power to discover new correspondences and relationships in and among literary works - these capabilities are opening up new fields of inquiry in literature.
• Types of E-texts. Issues in using E-Texts

DVD's and CD-ROM's in the Eisenhower Library 
(These are located in Audio/Visual on A level. Some do circulate.)

LIZ: Letteratura Italiana Zanichelli
Fulltext of 362 works of Italian literature by 109 authors. Covers the period from 1200 to 1964.
CompFile 1681

I commenti danteschi dei secoli XIV, XV e XVI
All the criticism on the Divina Commedia, from Jacopo Alighieri to Castelvetro and Tasso.
The complete works of Dante, in Latin and in the vernacular, are also included on the CD. The thirty  commentaries collected are a compilation of all critiques systematically carried out between the fourteenth and sixteenth century. In the cases of Landino and Vellutello this is the first edition made after Sixteenth century.
CompFile  2991

Opera omnia:  Francesco Petrarca
All of the Latin and vernacular works of the founder of Italian humanism, and constitutes the first complete edition of his works since the 16th century.
CompFile 3324

Tutte le opere: Giacomo Leopardi
Includes all draft copies of the Canti, correspondence, the 2 chrestomathies, and his commentary on Petrarch.
CompFile 3326 

Tutte le opere: Torquato Tasso
Complete works of Tasso with biography of Manso and the complete correspondence
Compfile 3349

Archivio della tradizione lirica : da Petrarca a Marino
200 books of poetry, from Petrarch to Marino, about 29,500 poems, 112 authors. Search the entire corpus, by century, by author. Concordances of a text, of part of a text, or of many texts can be created and printed out.
CompFile 3323

Dante PC Talk
A multimedia CD-ROM in Italian. Includes entire text of La Commedia, along with notes and the Tommaseo commentary, as well as sound clips of actors reading various passages, and the Doré illustrations.
CompFile 1135

Encyclomedia: guida multimediale alla storia della civiltà europea
Seicento CompFile 752
Settecento CompFile 1469
Ottocento Compfile 1290

La letteratura italiana
6 CD’s. An interactive encyclopedia of Italian literature, with sound, text, video. Includes criticism, bibliography, biography, and full texts of works.
CompFile 2498

Web Resources that are licensed by the Library

Dartmouth Dante Project   (All US JHU)

Opera del vocabolario italiano  (All JHU (incl. International))

Eighteenth Century Collections Online  (All US JHU)

Past Masters: Full Text of Classic Works in the Humanities  (All US JHU)

Free Web Resources

CIBIT: La Biblioteca italiana telematica
Primary Italian texts, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Classical literary texts, as well as representative texts of Italian history, philosophy, art, political science, music, folklore.

Liber Liber
A non-profit effort to make texts available free and online. Includes mostly Italian writers, some others though (e.g. Shakespeare, Dickens).

Italian Women Writers
Access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors, from the 12th century to 1945

Duecent la poesia italiana dalle origini a Dante
Un archivio che raccoglie testi della poesia italiana antica, del periodo che va dalle
origini fino a Dante. Nel corso degli ultimi anni, ho raccolto un grande corpus testuale,
probabilmente il più grande archivio del genere, e comunque l'unico disponibile in rete.

Electronic Full-Text Sources: Italian
A collection of links to e-texts from the ARTFL project.

Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana
Many genres and time periods included.

Nuovo Rinascimento   
Si tratta di testi elettronici di opere di autori italiani, di saggi, di bibliografie, di materiali didattici e di materiali informatici in generale, pertin

Petrarch: selections from his correspondences

The World of Dante
The Commedia online, along with other research tools.

Digital Dante
A project of Columbia University

Decameron Web
Web site devoted to Boccaccio’s masterpiece. Includes e-text of Italian and English, as well as many other resources.

WESS Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature.
Organized by language, and maintained by a librarian, this list has links to texts in all the major European languages, including Provençal, Old Norse, Galician, and Catalan. Most are freely accessible.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A "dynamic reference work", maintained and updated by an editorial board. Over 950 professional philosophers are donating their time and labor to collaboratively write, referee, and maintain the reference work.

Digital Scriptorium
An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

Project Gutenberg
The granddaddy of electronic texts on the Internet. Many language and literatures are to be found among the mostly English texts, including some of the more obscure European texts.

IntraText Digital Library
A large international archive of e-texts. Many languages and literatures.

OAIster:
A searchable catalog of publicly available digital library resources provided by the research library community. Broad subject coverage.

The Online Books Page
Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web