LibGuides: Italian: Books

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Library of Congress call numbers for Italian include:

DG11-999 Italian History

PC1001-1977 Italian Language

PQ4001-5999 Italian literature
PQ4001-4199.5 History and criticism
PQ4001-4063 General
PQ4064-4075 Early to 1500
PQ4077-4088 Modern
PQ4091-(4131) Poetry
PQ4133-4160 Drama
PQ4161-4185 Prose
PQ(4186)-(4199) Folk literature
PQ4199.5 Juvenile literature (General)
PQ4201-4263 Collections
PQ4201-4204 General
PQ4205-4206 Translations
PQ4207-4225 Poetry
PQ4227-4245 Drama
PQ4247-4263 Prose
PQ4265-4556 Individual authors and works to 1400
PQ4561-4664 Individual authors, 1400-1700
PQ4675-4734 Individual authors, 1701-1900
PQ4800-4851 Individual authors, 1900-1960
PQ4860-4886 Individual authors, 1961-2000
PQ4900-4926 Individual authors, 2001
PQ5901-5999 Regional, provincial, local, etc

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Some Recommended Titles

Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century / I Grandi Racconti Italiani Del Novecento by Jacob Blakesley (Editor)
Call Number: PQ4257.E5 G74 2013
ISBN: 9780486476315
Publication Date: 2013-09-19
This anthology highlights the rich range of modern Italian fiction, presenting the first English translations of works by many famous authors. Contents include fables and stories by Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, and Cesare Pavese; historical fiction by Leonardo Sciascia and Mario Rigoni Stern; and little-known tales by Luigi Pirandello and Carlo Emilio Gadda. No further apparatus or reference is necessary for the self-contained text. Appropriate for high school and college courses as well as self-study, this volume will prove a fine companion for teachers and intermediate-level students of Italian language and literature as well as readers wishing to brush up on their language skills.
Italian Culture by Cormac O. Cuilleanain (Editor); Corinna Salvadori (Editor); John Scattergood (Editor)
Call Number: PQ4049 .I83 2006
ISBN: 1846820251
Publication Date: 2006-05-26
A collection of essays celebrating friendship, communication, performance, translation, influence and transmission, as they apply not only to the academic study of Italian culture, but also to the creation of that culture. The essays range from a study of Dante and his poet friends in Florence around 1300 to the work of Piero Bigongiari, Mario Luzi and ~contemporary movements in Italian poetry.
The Syntax of Italian Dialects by Christina Tortora (Editor)
Call Number: PC1746 .S964 2003
ISBN: 0195136454
Publication Date: 2003-07-03
This volume collects original theoretical work on the syntax and morphology of Italian and a wide range of Italian dialects.
Better Reading Italian by Daniela Gobetti
Call Number: E-Book Available Online
ISBN: 007139138X
Publication Date: 2003-02-25
New reading series brings foreign language acquisition into the 21st century While the world produces more and more reading material each year, from magazines to newspapers to websites, why are most language learners still relying on contrived texts and classic literature for language acquisition? Providing entertaining contemporary texts in the original language, the Better Reading Language series is for those who want to brush up on a foreign language. With the authentic materials provided in this series, readers will be able to peruse a Latin Grammys write-up in Spanish, a feature on Alain Ducasse's favorite recipes in French, or a review of a Milan fashion show in Italian. Readings on everything from music and sports to cinema and contemporary family life are arranged in increasing difficulty within chapters. Along the way, learners will find instruction and exercises to help develop improved reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary.
The Italian Language Today by Anna Laura Lepschy; Giulio C. Lepschy
Call Number: PC1087 .M6 1988
ISBN: 0941533220
Publication Date: 1998-04-21
The authors present the Italian language not as it is prescribed in grammars and dictionaries, but as it is actually written and spoken.
The Italians by John Hooper
Call Number: DG451 .H66 2015
ISBN: 0525428070
Publication Date: 2015-01-29
A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Fifteen years as a foreign correspondent based in Rome have sharpened Hooper's observations, and he looks at the facts that lie behind the stereotypes, shedding new light on everything from the Italians' bewildering politics to their love of life and beauty.
Al Dente by Fabio Parasecoli
Call Number: E-Book Available Online
ISBN: 1780232764
Publication Date: 2014-05-15
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Italy by Jonathan Morris (Contribution by); Harry Hearder
Call Number: DG467 .H43 2001
ISBN: 0521806135
Publication Date: 2001-11-15
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