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Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI)

Access: Publicly available resource

Description: The OVI database contains over 1,800 vernacular texts, the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers.

Coverage: Various Dates

Subject(s):
Music, Film & Performing Arts
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