Italian Language and Literature

The Vocabolario Dantesco is an online thematic dictionary exclusively dedicated to the Divine Comedy.

First published by the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani in 1970, the Enciclopedia Dantesca remains the primary encyclopedia in Italian to cover Dante’s Comedy.

The fundamental bibliography of publications relating to Dante, maintained by the Società Dantesca Italiana and the Dante Society of America.

An annual review of English-language scholarship from 1953-2014, now fully indexed and available on the Dante Society of America's website.

For a list of authoritative projects on Dante and his works, please see the list maintained on the Dante at Notre Dame LibGuide

Contains the texts of all the Latin and Italian works of Petrarch.

The Petrarch Exegesis in Renaissance Italy Database is a searchable catalog of print and manuscript copies of commentaries covers material produced in Italy between 1350 and 1650.

This website provides multiple editions of the text of Petrarch’s Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta (Canzoniere), and selected translations and commentaries.

This site provides the entire text of the Decameron and related scholarly sources, produced by Brown University.

Open access to the official research journal of the American Boccaccio Association, containing hundreds of articles on Boccaccio’s work and life.

Provided by the Università La Sapienza of Rome, this website provides access to the entirety of Leopardi’s bibliography, the digitalized version of the Zibaldoni’s manuscripts, the catalogue of the Biblioteca Leopardi, a Leopardian lexicon, and many others useful links.

This is a digital critical edition, and also the latest critical edition, of Leopardi’s Canti.

The Fondo Manzoniano of the Biblioteca Braidense has digitized a large part of Alessandro Manzoni personal library