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10. Selected Electronic Texts and Portals

For links to many other electronic text resources, see Harvard's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures home page where the Italian Online Resources link to Authors & Texts presents portals and full-text resources arranged by literary period and by author. Digital projects and electronic texts are represented as well as links to society/association websites and other literary portals. A selection of other resources is presented here.

ARTFL

ARTFL is a collaboration between ATILF (Analyse et Traitement de la Langue Française), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago and began as an in-depth resource for online texts and reference works on French language and literature. Its contents have since been augmented to include many other links to electronic full-text resources, bibliographies and reference works.

ARTFL includes the following resources related to Italian studies, located via the ARTFL Collaborations link.

Created by the ItalNet Consortium:

• FIOLA (Archivio Franco-Italiano Online) is a database of "all texts written in mixed French and Italian language from its earliest examples in the twelfth century to the Renaissance." Currently the following texts are online and searchable: La Guerra di Attila and L'Entrée d'Espagne and its suite, La Prise de Pamplune.
  
• Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, a searchable database of 1780 vernacular texts dated prior to 1375. Includes verse and prose works of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and other writers. Created to aid in the compilation of the Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini.
  
• Renaissance Dante in Print presents editions from the Zahm Collection at the University of Notre Dame along with selections from the Newberry Library. Supplementary materials include lists of editions, chronology and Dante title pages.
  
• Inventory-Catalogue of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan: a searchable collection of 12,000 drawings by European artists who were active from the fourteenth through nineteenth centuries. Bibliographies.

ARFTL also includes:

Italian Women Writers, a database under development, which includes authors from the 13th centuries up to authors born in 1945. Linked to each entry are/will be: biographical details, biography, portrait, editions, texts available. The following types of works are included: anthologies, articles and essays, autobiographies, biographies, children's literature, devotional works, dialogues, diaries, dramas, epics, hagiographies, histories and chronicles, interviews and conversations, letters, memoirs, novels, operas, poems, reviews, short stories, and travel literature."

The database is browsable (by authors, full-text titles, biographies and portraits) and searchable (by authors, titles, editions and/or division of text). Texts are searchable by keyword with limits by author, title, genre, year and/or composition. An extensive listing of sources (print and electronic) used to create the database is included.

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Inter Libros

A gateway for classics and medieval research at Harvard and beyond. Information on e-resources, manuscripts, prominent journals, art and images, pedagogy and a wealth of other information and links.

Letteratura italiana Zanichelli [computer file]: CD-ROM dei testi della letteratura italiana / a cura di Pasquale Stoppelli ed Eugenio Picchi. [Bologna]: Zanichelli; [S.l.]: Olivetti Education, [c1993].
Widener: Harvard Depository CD-ROM RR 43 RBS

A digitization of 500 literary texts dating from the thirteenth century through to the Twentieth century. Complete works of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio.

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Printed Guides to E-resources

Biblioteche elettriche: letture in internet: una risorsa per la ricerca e per la didattica: con un'appendice su Forme tradizionali di comunicazione intellettuale / a cura di Francesco Santi. Firenze: Edizioni del Galluzo per La Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, 2003.
Widener: Harvard Depository Z1033.E43 B53 2003

A collection of essays on various digitization projects related to the humanities in general and Italian studies in particular. Specific projects such as the Archivio della latinità italiana del Medioevo (Alim) are discussed.

Reale, Luigi M. Guida a Internet per italianisti. 1. ed. italiana. Perugia: Guerra, 2001.
Widener: Harvard Depository PQ4014 .R44 2001x

Discusses information retrieval strategies for Italian studies. Devotes chapters to descriptions of electronic text projects and to annotated listings of important scholarly websites and databases.

Metitieri, Fabio. Biblioteche in rete: istruzioni per l'uso / Fabio Metitieri, Riccardo Ridi. Nuova ed. riv. e aggiornata. Roma [etc.]: GLF editori Laterza, 2003.
Widener: Harvard Depository Z699.35.O55 M38 2003

Useful overview of European online catalogs, electronic text collections and archives, and websites related to Italian studies, associations, organizations, etc.