Italian Studies: Web Resources

Official website of the Italian Ministry of Culture. 

Web portal to museums in Italy. Includes a searchable database. 

Italian contemporary art.

A website from RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana) that is dedicated to Italian culture and language.

Life in Italy is dedicated to modern Italian life and culture.

Website of the Dante Alighieri Society, which promotes the Italian language and culture throughout the world. 

Promotes knowledge and appreciation of Italian cultural and artistic traditions from the classical period to modern times.

The home of editorial work on the critical edition of Rossini's music. Also provides research and editorial support for the Verdi critical edition and for other projects in 19th-century Italian opera.

Digital archive of classic Italian literature. 

Digital archive of classic literature from the publisher Einaudi. 

Online print and audio archive of classic literature. 

From the University of Chicago

A multimedia research tool to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy.

A searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy

Over 3 million private letters and documents from the Medici Granducal Archive (1537-1743)

Full text, in Latin, Italian, and English, of Pico della Mirandola's The Discourse on the Dignity of Man (1486), considered the "Manifesto of the Renaissance."

Brown University's hypermedia archive of materials related to Boccaccio's Decameron.

Historical and contemporary maps from the the University of Texas, Austin.

Free digital maps.