Dictionaries and encyclopedias for Italian studies
Use encyclopedias:
- for summaries
- for lists of further reading
- when starting a project
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There are three key online resources which give access to hundreds of dictionaries and encyclopedias:
Language dictionaries
A basic selection of monolingual, bilingual and other Italian language dictionaries can be found in the 3rd Floor Dictionaries sequence at Call Number range 451-457. More specialised dictionaries can be found in the 5th Floor Reference collection.
The Oxford-Paravia English-Italian/Italian-English dictionary is also available online from Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
Useful reference works for Italian studies: selected titles
Literature
Cassell dictionary of Italian literature
3rd Floor Reference--850.3-CAS
Dizionario critico della letteratura italiana
3rd Floor Reference--850.3-DIZ
Dizionario enciclopedico della letteratura italiana
3rd Floor Reference--850.3-PET
Encyclopedia of Italian literary studies
3rd Floor Reference--850.3-ENC
Italian women writers: a bio-bibliographical sourcebook
3rd Floor Reference--850.3-ITA
The feminist encyclopedia of Italian literature
3rd Floor Reference--850.3-FEM
Dictionaries of literary terms and of literature in general
3rd Floor Reference--803
Dictionaries of literary themes and motifs
3rd Floor Reference--809.93
History, politics, sociology
Dictionary of modern Italian history
4th Floor Reference--945.003-DIC
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
4th Floor reference--940.21-ENC
Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia
4th Floor Reference--945.03-MED
Dictionary of European history and politics since 1945
4th Floor Reference--940.5-URW
European political facts
4th Floor Reference--940.27-COO
Encyclopedia of contemporary Italian culture
4th Floor Reference--945.092-ENC
The Arts
Dictionary of art
3rd Floor Reference--703-DIC
Also available online as Oxford Art Online
Dictionaries of the cinema
3rd Floor Reference--791.4303
Dictionaries of the theatre
3rd Floor Reference--792.03