Culture

Opera Web -- Site for Opera lovers, from Italy. In Italian and English.

Classical Music in Italy

1200 Years of Italian Sculpture

Christus Rex -- This is a huge collection of religious artworks - images from Vatican City, Sistine Chapel, and Vatican museums.

Florence Art Guide

Made in Firenze -- online shopping, items produced according to the best artisan tradition

History of Italy - Primary Documents -- historical documents transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated

WebMuseum, Paris: The Italian Renaissance (1420-1600) -- paintings of Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Tintorello.

Galleria degli Uffizi -- The Uffizi Gallery of Florence - many important works of Italy and other schools, from the 14th to the 18th Century, including the largest existing collection of Tuscan Renaissance paintings.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. -- thousands of images - search by artist, subject, school, or style

Pompeii Excavations -- Excavations of city buried by eruption of Vesuvius volcano in 79 A.D.

Italian Cooking

Cucina Italiana-- Online cooking magazine

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Italian Teaching and Learning Tools/ Multimedia

Italian/English Dictionary

I Dialetti Italiani-- Help with various Italian dialects

Italian Grammar Help

Web Italian Lessons

World Language Films A great source for purchasing Italian instructional and feature films

Facets One of the biggest foreign film selections on the Web

Italian Software Multilingual books offers these links for Italian learning software

News

La Stampa -- Italian newspaper online.
 
Il Sole 24 Ore -- Business news.

Italia Online-- More Italian Newspapers online.
 
RAI - Radio Televisione Italiana
 
Gazzetta dello Sport on line

Libraries and Bookstores

UC Irvine This well-organized library page offers all different kinds of ways to search for what interests you. Do not miss the Critical Theory Resource Page which is a browsable and searchable archive of scholarly bibliographies.

Newberry The Newberry library is located in Chicago. Its HomePage offers information on the library, events, research, and it special collections. It also provides information about researching your family history.

Amazon This is the Internet bookstore with over 300,000 titles, with discount prices and fast service.

La Libreria Leggere -- This is a book store in Florence that has books in Italian, French, and English, and some online games.

Literature

The Decameron Web

ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Duecento Italian poetry from the origins to Dante

Italo Calvino Home Page Italian journalist, short-story writer & novelist - biography, bibliography, links

Il Narratore Readings of Italian literature in mp3 audio files

Italnet ItalNet is an international consortium whose mission is to make available scholarly Internet resources of literary and historical materials relating to Italian studies.

Electronic Texts

Many texts are available on the Internet. This becomes useful if you do not have a copy available, if you just need to check a quotation, or if you would like your students to read something, but you do not want to require them to buy the book. You can access many Italian texts through this site.


Dante's Divine Comedy -- four full editions: the original Italian text and three English translations, with graphics

Electronic Texts in Italian

Boccaccio's Decameron

Labyrinth Library: Italian Texts -- from the Labyrinth, a WWW server for Medieval Studies, sponsored by Georgetown University.

Study Abroad

CU Study Abroad Programs

Study Abroad on the WWW The on-line source for study abroad information.

 

Italian Departments

CU FRIT

NYU One of the leading Italian departments in the US.

University of Rome III

Italian Universities This server offers links to webpages of many Italian universities.

Other Italian Pages

The following pages offer lists of Italian websites. Many of the sites are duplicated from list to list. This list represents the pages which seem to be updated most frequently, and those which have the most information.

Windows on Italy General information on Italy

In Italy Online Tons of useful information for the traveler and student

CU French and Italian Links Page Some of the same links you find here, but more of a selection.

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