Research and Course Guides: ITAL 111 Elementary Italian I: Getting Started

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This online guide provides information and links to resources for Italian Language available via UST Libraries. Use the tabs to help find books, academic articles, videos, websites as well as information on how to cite sources. Contact the Modern & Classical Languages Liaison Librarian if you have questions or need research assistance.

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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Collins Italian Dictionary
Italian-English Dictionary

Columbia Gazetteer of the World
The Columbia Gazetteer of the World is a comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features. CGW contains 170,000 articles about 1) the political world?(named geographic places), 2) The physical world (major features) and 3) special places?(national parks, historic places, etc.).

Dictionary of Italian Literature
Included are entries on Italian writers, periods, literary movements, and versification, and on critical problems related to literary history. The volume covers the entire history of Italian literature, with entries ranging from the 13th century to the present and from Dante and Boccaccio to Umberto Eco.

Gale Literature Criticism
Centuries of analysis - scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.
Gale Literature Resource Center
A one-stop-shop resource providing access to biographies, critical analyses and reviews of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.