TV & News

RAI - The home page of the Italian television network. You can watch recent TV Shows with its service RAI Replay.

ANSA (Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata) is Italy's leading news agency.

Other Newspapers and Periodicals:

• La Repubblica
• Corriere della Sera
• La Stampa - Based in Turin.
• Il Sole 24ore - Italy's main daily business and economic newspaper.
• Edicola. - Edicola is one of the many online news stands where you can browse through daily papers as well as weekly and monthly magazines

Language

Dictionaries

• Dizionari Garzanti - An online bilingual and monolingual dictionary: English into Italian, Italian into English, Italian monolingual and Italian synonyms (requires free registration, highly advised).
• Wordreference.com - Bilingual dictionaries from and into many languages, very good and user/friendly. Check also the Forum.
• On-line translation - Logos.it is one of the most important translation sites in Europe. Here you will find on-line dictionaries and even a small course in translation.

Exercises

• Rococatala - A vast selection of online exercises and other resources. Highly advised.

• How many languages in Italy? - You can find the answer and a wealth of linguistic and statistical information in the Ethnologue Database.

Literature

Libraries

• Biblioteche italiane - A comprehensive and updated directory of Italian libraries.

Electronic archives of Italian literature

• Italian Literature in HTML - This archive contains freely accessible Italian literary texts in HTML format.
• Virtual Library - From the Progetto Manuzio. A very large library of texts in ASCII format which can be freely downloaded.

I classici

• Digital Dante - A comprehensive hypertext guide to Dante's work, including not only the text of the Comedy with various English translations, but also secondary sources carefully selected and edited at Columbia University.
• Dante: a guide to online resources - Edited by O. Lieberknecht, is even more comprehensive and perfectly complements the former.
• The Decameron Web - From Brown University, an exploration into the world of Boccaccio's Decameron, which exploits the full potential of hypertext.

I contemporanei

• Bollettino del Novecento - Electronic newsletter created by a group of young scholars at the University of Bologna. The main topic is contemporary literature.
• Alice - This site offers a comprehensive picture of the publishing scene in Italy: reviews of recent publications, interviews to authors and publishers.

Italy and Italians

• Music - All you need to know about music in Italy. In Italian and English.
• Museums - A guide to three thousand Italian museums. In Italian and English.
• Cinema - A directory of Italian cinema, in Italian and English, and a good starting point for exploring some interesting archives of Italian films.
• At the Italian Embassy site in London a vast amount of information is available with hundreds of links in English.
• It is also worth trying some Italian search engines: for example Virgilio.