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Language and Literature: Italy

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Includes sites concerning online dictionaries, publishing, and the Italian language.



Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana (http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html)
Classics of Italian literature with full text and graphics, including poems, the Bible, works of Dante, and more contemporary authors, including Pirandello. In Italian. From Letteratura Italiana.

De Bibliotheca: La biblioteca di Babele (http://digilander.libero.it/bepi/)
Complete online texts of works no longer under copyright protection by dozens of Italian writers. In some cases, this site lists links to Web sites devoted to these authors. In Italian.

Decameron Web (http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian%5FStudies/dweb/dweb.shtml)
Growing body of information related to Giovanni Boccaccio, the Decameron, and the culture of 14th-century Italy. Includes sections on history, society, arts, and religion as well as a bibliography. From Brown University with contributions from other institutions.

Ethnologue. Languages of Italy (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=IT)
Links to information on the 33 living languages of Italy and their populations.

The Princeton Dante Project (PDP) (2.0) (http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/index.html)
PDP combines a traditional approach to the study of Dante's Comedy with new techniques of compiling and consulting data, images, and sound. Provides complete Italian text of Dante's works, a new English verse translation of the Inferno, and a recitation of the complete Comedy in Italian as well as critical commentary, lectures, maps, images, and links to related sites.

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