Research Guides: Italian Languages & Literature: Guide

Welcome to my Italian guide

I am happy to share with you the rich resources of our library's holdings concerning Italian literature and language. Hello, my name is Carlo Minchillo, Bibliographer for Italian language and literature.

To get started on a paper or research project involving Italian language and literature, you can begin with an overview article about the topic that can be located in a Italian literature encyclopedia such as the ones listed under the tab "Books & E-Books." After locating and reading an entry relevant to your topic, make note of the 'Works Cited' page of the books and articles used by the author. They may lead you to other relevant resources. Jot down the vocabulary and terms used to describe your topic, which may serve later as search terms in our OneSearch catalog. Critically evaluate the information in terms of content, currency and documentation. When in doubt about an assignment, talk to your instructor.

If you wish to contact me about this guide or, if you are faculty, for a library session, please use my contact information in the right frame. I am available to chat with you most Mons-Fridays, daytime hours, during this remote period.

Buona lettura!

Recent Publications by Faculty

Spettri d'Italia: scenari del fantastico nella pubblicistica postunitaria milanese by Morena Corradi
Call Number: Level 5 PQ4086 .C599 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Corradi delves into post Unification Milan and to 'the fiction and political literature of the democratic Scapigliatura, an artistic movement following the Risorgimento movement, 1815-1871, with particular emphasis on the political writings that appeared in the "Gazzettino Rosa" and in the "Plebe". Corradi's study ends with an analysis of the representation of the other, in the socio-cultural context of post-Unification Italy.'
Italian Style by Eugenia Paulicelli
Call Number: Level 5 (PN1993.5 .I88 P38 2017 )
ISBN: 9781501334924
Publication Date: 2017-09-21
This is the first in-depth, book-length study on fashion and Italian cinema from the silent film to the present. Italian cinema launched Italian fashion to the world. The book is the story of this launch. The creation of an Italian style and fashion as they are perceived today, especially by foreigners, was a product of the post World War II years. Before then, Parisian fashion had dominated Europe and the world. Just as fashion was part of Parisian and French national identity, the book explores the process of shaping and inventing an Italian style and fashion that ran parallel to, and at times took the lead in, the creation of an Italian national identity. In bringing to the fore these intersections, as well as emphasizing the importance of craft in cinema, fashion and costume design, the book aims to offer new visions of films by directors such as Nino Oxilia, Mario Camerini, Alessandro Blasetti, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti and Paolo Sorrentino, of film stars such as Lyda Borelli, Francesca Bertini, Pina Menichelli, Lucia Bos , Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, Toni Servillo and others, and the costume archives and designers who have been central to the development of Made in Italy and Italian style.