Guides: Italian: Primary Sources

Digital collections

Biblioteca Digitale (BNCF)
Contains digitized copies of rare books, manuscripts, maps, photos, and many other primary resources.
Collezioni Digitali
Finding aid for digitized books, manuscripts and archival materials in Italian collections.
Access to recent publications is restricted, most archival content is available freely.
SIUSA - Sistema Informativo Unificato per le Soprintendenze Archivistiche
Online union catalog for Italian private and public archives. Several dozen finding aids for collections covering all aspects of Italian culture
Europeana
Multi-lingual online collection of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections.
Italy: Historical Collections (BYU)
A collection of links to other digital historical collections.

La Stampa - Archive
Searchable full text from 9 February 1867 until December 2005. Entire pages can be downloaded as PDF.
Newspaper Map
Find online Italian newspapers using a map.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni is the new platform for LexisNexis Academic. It offers a streamlined, unified search of more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources. Resources include the full text of national and international newspapers; magazines; wire services; business and financial information; U.S. laws, regulations, and legal cases. Designed to meet student needs, it allows individual customization along with collaboration tools for creating shared work space for group projects.