Librarian/Curator for European Studies
Introduction
This guide is an introduction to the literature of Italy. It features books, journals, media, and databases accessible through the UCLA Library. Organized by genre, each section contains a selection of literary works and scholarly resources. Titles both in Italian and in English translation are included. Search the UCLA Library Catalog by author and/or title to check for other available editions in both languages. This guide is not intended to be comprehensive. Resources may be added or removed over time. If you need research help on this subject, contact Shannon Tanhayi Ahari, the Librarian/Curator for European Studies. Refer to the Italian Studies guide for library resources related to Italian history, language, and culture.
Selected Images
La mappa dell'Inferno/The Map of Hell by Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) illustrating Dante's Divine Comedy (1321). Vatican Library.
Available in Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Pinocchio by Enrico Mazzanti (1852–1910). Mazzanti was the first illustrator of Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino (1883).
Available in Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Giovanni Boccaccio and Florentines who have fled from the plague (circa 1485). Manuscript illumination.
Available in Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Page from Stories From the Pentamerone, a seventeenth-century fairy tale collection by Giambattista Basile (1566–1632). This illustration, by British illustrator Warwick Goble (1862–1943), is from a 1911 edition.
Available in Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Advertisement for the film Matrimonio all'italiana/Marriage Italian Style (1964). Published in the Morning Call for the Colonial Theater in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on 14 May 1965. Matrimonio all'italiana was adapted from the 1946 play, Filumena Marturano, by Eduardo De Filippo.
Available in Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Film still from Ladri di biciclette/The Bicycle Thieves (1948), which was adapted from a 1946 novel by Luigi Bartolini.
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