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Subjects: Modern Languages
Welcome to the FSU Libraries' Italian Studies research guide!
In this guide you will find links to resources for searching and locating material for the study of Italian language, literature, and history. It is meant to jumpstart the research process, please contact Amauri Serrano, subject librarian for history and modern languages, for further assistance.
Early Modern History and The Enlightenment
Crespi, Antonio Maria. Il Bustino di Ludovico Ariosto (painting). (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana)
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
The MLA International Bibliography provides a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Works of interest to scholars are included whether they are written for a scholarly or a more general audience, provided that the content or its treatment places them within the scope of the bibliography. Masters' theses, guides that are essentially plot summaries, and other apprentice or simplified works are excluded.
Resource URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=mzh
Abbreviation: mla
Vendor: EBSCO
Coverage: 1921–Current
Subjects: African-American Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, Rhetoric & Composition, Russian & Eastern European Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
A database of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 5 years.
How to search (04:20)
Primary Source Collection: 19th-Century British Pamphlets (00:51)
Resource URL: http://www.jstor.org/action/showAdvancedSearch
Abbreviation: jstor
Vendor: JSTOR
Coverage: 1665–present
Subjects: Arts Administration, Art History, *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Resource URL: https://link.gale.com/apps/LitRC?u=tall85761
Abbreviation: galelit
Vendor: Gale
Subjects: Literature, Theatre
Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and indexes journal articles covering countries other than the United States and Canada in the subject areas of history, the social sciences and humanities. The scope of coverage is World History (1450–present) and related areas including culture, diplomacy, economics, international relations and politics.
Resource URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=hia
Abbreviation: hist-abs
Subjects: Asian Studies, History, Middle Eastern Studies, Russian & Eastern European Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Italinemo: Riviste di Italianistica nel Mondo
Index of Italian Studies journals published since 2000. This is a freely available resource. In order to determine availability, do a "journal search" on the library website.
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URL: https://guides.lib.fsu.edu/Italian_Studies
Subjects: Literature, Modern Languages
Tags: Italian Culture, Italian Film, Italian History, Italian Language, Italian LIterature