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ILTweb Digital Dante
Columbia University posts the divine Digital Dante, including info on his life, his works, e-texts of his books, and critical essays. Is it us, or is it hot in here?
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Italo Calvino
We admit a particular fondness for the philosophical author and essayist Calvino. Here you'll find a number of his works excerpted online, biographical essays, and book reviews. One Mr. Palomar short story and you'll be hooked!
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Italian Language and Literature
This scholarly cybertext traces the history of the Italian language and its literary spawn. Info on the formation of dialect, vernacular usage, humanism, enlightenment, and realism. If you're doing a paper on this topic, it is SO aced!
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Italian Literature
Yet another erudite essay on the development of Italian literature from the 13th through the 20th centuries. See how Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Macchiavelli influenced posterity. Prince of a guy, that Macchiavelli!
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Roman Gods Goddesses and Heroes
Can't keep all those Roman deities straight? This literary look-up makes it so easy you'll feel like Bacchus, Cupid and Diana are part of the family. Serendipity? Nah. Fortuna, the goddess of destiny, must've led you here.
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Club di Giulietta
This Verona-based club is dedicated to the young Capulet character of Shakespeare's tragedy. A quarterly newsletter keeps you posted on related events, and you can order your own Juliet watch right online! And all without denying thy father.
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Umberto Eco Links
Eco, who teaches semiotics at the University of Bologna, is the heir apparent to the Renaissance men of centuries gone bye-bye. Find links to all manner of web site about the famed man, from academia to film.
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