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Finding Books
The primary place to look for books is the library catalog, followed by WorldCat. Both use the same forms of author names and subject (topic) descriptors.
To be certain that you're looking at all of the books on a particular topic, it can be useful to search the official library subject. Sometimes the library subjects are not intuitive, sometimes they are. There may be more than one subject term that you'll need to look at for your topic -- both poetry and poets, perhaps. You can use either the basic or the advanced search options to search for subjects; in either case, use the pull-down menu to select "subject."
Collections of texts online
Collections containing older texts listed first.
- Duecento : la poesia italiana dalla origini a Dante This link opens in a new window
- Opera del Vocabolario Italiano Database This link opens in a new window1,960 vernacular texts, the majority of which are dated prior to 1375. The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts.
- OPAL libri antichi This link opens in a new window
- Early European Books This link opens in a new window
- IWW: Italian Women Writers This link opens in a new window
- Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani This link opens in a new window
- Biblioteca Italiana This link opens in a new window