Italian Literature: Microform Collections

The Audio/Visual Center houses microform material, such as microfilm, and fiche. The A/V Center also has microfilm and fiche readers, including a digital Canon reader. These resources are valuable and unique for research, and are not to be overlooked  in any field of study.

Collections of interest to Italian Studies

Archivio biografico italiano

The archive includes biographies of men and women, from Roman history up ton the 20th century; from politics, science, commerce, culture, and industry.

Libraries Service Center: Microfiche C no. 2818
Index in General Reference: CT 1123 .I531

Italian Humanism: Incunabula and the printing revolution
180 texts from the 15th century. Including Valla, Bracciolini, Aretino. This set represents the work of the cultural movement known as humanism as it was printed in the incunable period. It reflects "rediscovery" of classical texts and the wide-ranging contributions of Italians to their interpretation and to creative use of the classics, in commentaries and in original works of prose and poetry.
Newly acquired

Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists and the world of classical scholarship in Italy, 1300-1800. Mario Emilio Cosenza.

Based on Cosenza's card files accumulated over his lifetime, this essential work lists Italian men and women of all walks of life who studied Greek and Roman civilization, and anyone else who went to Italy and was identified with the new learning in Italy. A great deal of biographical information, as well as lists of all editions of the subjects' works and works by other scholars on the lives and works of the humanists. Also includes entries for Italian cities, learned academies, and libraries.

Libraries Service Center: Film no. 1039 (no guide)
Held in print on D Level: Z 7128 .H9 C6 Quarto

Interdisciplinary Collections
 
The Great Exhibition of 1851

Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations. Prospectuses of the exhibits from the influential London exhibition of 1851, providing insight into the design, technological innovation, and business activities of the Victorian era. Essential source for study of material culture.

Libraries Service Center: Film No. 3319 Guide in A/V

The Eighteenth Century

Primarily focuses on British studies, but useful for Continental research as well. Based on the British Library's Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), consists of approximately 200,000 items selected from the 500,000 titles printed in Great Britain and its colonies or printed in English anywhere else in the world from 1701-1800. Contains reproductions of books, broadsides, pamphlets, etc.

Libraries Service Center: Film no. E 204  Guide in A/V (loose leaf notebook), Author, Title, and Subject access.
 

European women's periodicals
Rare and important titles: Political, professional and popular periodicals written for and by women across Europe. List of titles included.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film no. 3619

 
Women advising women

Again, primarily British in scope. Material by women for women, primarily 18th century in scope. Part 1: Early women's journals, c1700-1832. -- Part 2: Advice books, manuals, almanacs and journals, c1625-1837. -- Parts 3-4: The Lady's Magazine, 1770-1832. -- Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film No. E 162  Printed guides in A/V

 
History of Women

Primary source materials, selected from the world’s most important library holdings through 1920. The most comprehensive microfilm collection ever assembled on the subject. Includes one section on "The social and cultural construction of girls."
 
Libraries Service Center: Film no. A .H57

 
Black Death

Sources concerning the European Plague, 1470-1822, from Germany, France, Italy, England, Switzerland, and Central Europe. Rare printed sources from the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel; including treatises giving suggestions, instructions, and advice; short accounts of the sufferings of individual cities, towns, or villages; recipes for treatment; notes on experiments; and historical observations looking at the origins, causes, and effects of The Plague.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film No. E 308  Guide in A/V.


The Nineteenth Century

Planned to be a 30 year publishing program to reproduce on microfiche "a significant proportion of English-language works first published between 1801 and 1900." Consists of the General Collection, and five special collections: Women writers; Children's literature; Publishing, the book trade and the diffusion of  knowledge; Linguistics; and Visual arts and architecture.

Libraries Service Center: Micro-fiche C no. 2799   User manual and index on CD-ROM  (Comp File 83) provides for searching the bibliographic records contained in the microfiche collection by keywords - author, title, etc.

The History of the Cinema, 1895-1940

Includes 1,253 books and pamphlets on the cinema, published 1895-1940 in English and European languages. From the Museum of Modern Art, NY. 

Libraries Service Center: Micro-fiche C no. 2913  Handlist of titles in A/V

 
Russian Revolutionary Literature

The intellectual basis of the revolutionary movement can be studied in the writings of the major figures - Bakunin, Chernyshevskii, Tkachev, Plekhanov, Kropotkin, Chernov, Martov, Trotsky, Lenin and others. The collection also abounds in the anonymous and ephemeral pieces distributed among the workers and peasants. All the various groups and intellectual persuasions are represented, from the early anarchists and populists on up to the Socialist Revolutionary Party and Lenin’s Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Most of the material was published abroad or on underground presses within Russia, but a few legally-issued publications of major authors are also in the collection.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film no. 3182

 
The Inquisitions : manuscripts of the Spanish, Portuguese and French Inquisitions.
 
Libraries Service Center: Film no. 3616 


Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature

Early literature of political economics, encompassing a complete world-view. Includes the well-known works used in studying the history of economics and business, as well as unusual and exceedingly rare items. Sections on: Colonies, Commerce, Social Conditions, Trades & Manufacturers.
 
Libraries Service Center: Each part has a separate call number. Catalog on CD-ROM. Comp File 2833
 

Archives of the Destruction: A Photographic Record of the Holocaust

The most comprehensive pictorial record available of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Provides excellent background material as well as visual corroboration for those studying the historical roots of Nazi anti-Semitism and Jewish resistance during this period.
 
Libraries Service Center: Micro- fiche C no. 2902