Italian Language and Literature  

Benvenuti alla biblioteca universitaria   di Yale!

My name is Lidia Uziel and I am your librarian for collection development in Western European languages and  literatures.

The goal of this guide is to direct you to the best databases, reference tools, and on-line and print resources for Italian Language and Literature. It is my objective to provide you with pointers to as many areas of scholarly interest as possible, from books and academic articles to reference resources and interesting web links to primary and secondary resources that will help keep you abreast of current developments in Italian literary studies.

The selection of resources and (re)search strategies recommended in this guide is meant to reflect the trends and practices in Italian Studies in general, as well as the Italian holdings of the Yale University Library in particular. In addition, this guide also provides a few general tips on how to best navigate the research resources available to you when writing a scholarly paper on literary topics.

This guide will be updated periodically, so keep an eye out for new resources.  Feel free to give me feedback on the content of this guide and don't hesitate to send me a message if there is something I haven't covered here that you think should be added. 

Have questions? Want to discuss your research objectives and search strategies?  You're welcome to call or e-mail me anytime -- please see my contact information in the right-hand column. I will be delighted to discuss your needs!

This guide is partially bilingual.  Some of the entries are in Italian - just to make it simpler.  Buona lettura!

I recommend exploring the following guides which provide valuable technical tips related to the effective use of the library and its resources.

• Online Tutorials at Yale

Here you can learn how to efficiently use resources such as the library catalog, databases, EndNote, RefWorks, and others.

• Yale Finding Aid Database
  

Here you can learn about Yale collections and resources for archival and manuscript collections.  Finding aids are inventories, indexes, or guides that are created by archival and manuscript repositories to provide information about specific collections.

Library Location & Workshops

Orbis (Yale Library catalog)

Yale Library Borrowing & Privileges

Yale Purchase Request (if you want us to buy a particular item for the library)

Borrow Direct or Interlibrary Loan (when an item you want is not available at the Yale Library)

Beinecke Library (the rare book and manuscript library at Yale)

Department of Italian Language and Literature

Yale Italian poetry

Department of Comparative Literature

Whitney Humanities Center

Yale Center for Language Study