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Italian Politics and Political History/Government Documents

Last Updated: 28-Apr-2014

A guide to the Stanford University Library's resources for the study of Italian politics, including government materials from the Republic of Italy.

Oggi in Italia

LexisNexis - Italian newspapers are found in Lexis-Nexis Academic. Under "search by content type" pick "Foreign language news" and then select "Italian." Among the titles covered are: Corriere della Sera, ItaliaOggi, Il Resto di Carlino, La Nazione, and La Stampa, as well as the wire service ANSA.

Corriere della sera - main Italian newspaper, with English section on Italian politics and culture

Italia Oggi - online newspaper focusing on Italian finance and politics.

WESS Web Italy

Italian Consulate of San Francisco

The Italian Consulate of San Francisco is the Bay Area's most immediate point of contact for all matters related to the Italian government, including information on obtaining visas, Italian cultural activities taking place in the Bay Area, language study, scholarships for study abroad, and laws and regulations governing living and working in Italy.

Italian Consulate of San Francisco

Government and Administration

Governo Italiano
The Italian government's official website.
Camera dei Deputati
The official Italian website for the Chamber of Deputies, of the two legislative bodies of the Italian government.
Senato della Repubblica
The official Italian website for the Italian Senate, one of the two legislative bodies of the Italian government.
Banca d'Italia
The home page for Bank of Italy, the primary function of which is to set monetary policy for the Republic of Italy in accordance with its membership in the European Union.
Corte Suprema di Cassazione
The official website of the highest court in the Italian judicial system.
Bibliografia del Parlamento Italiano e degli studi elettorali
A resource for materials published by the Italian government.
Vatican
The official website of the Vatican.

Italian Newspapers

A representative collection of Italian newspapers available online to the Stanford community.

La Stampa
Corriere della Sera
La Repubblica
La Nazione

Government Documents

Documents issued by the Italian parliament are available at this site:

http://www.parlamento.it/home

Essenial Websites for Italian Politics
This website, created by the Association of College and Research Libraries, includes information related not only to the contemporary political world of Italy, but of other related states such as Switzerland, with its significant Italian-speaking population, the Republic of San Marino and the Vatican.
Italian National Institute of Statistics
The most important source for current statistical information relating to the Republic of Italy.

Available at the Stanford University Libraries

The Stanford University Libraries' holdings in materials produced by Italian governing bodies, as well as secondary scholarship associated with them, are diverse and complex.  While not exhaustive, the following list offers a sample of those holdings.

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  1. Italian political documents. [July 10. 1934-Apr. 1994]
  2. Exchange of notes between His Majesty's governments in the United Kingdom, Canada, the commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand, and the union of South Africa and the government of India and the Italian government respecting documents of identity for aircraft personnel. London, April 13, 1931
  3. Documents on Italian war crimes, submitted to the United Nations War Crimes Commission by the imperial Ethiopian Government
  4. Italian aggression in Spain : documents captured from Italian troops in action at Guadalajara
  5. Mussolini and Italian fascism
  6. Mussolini and Italian fascism

    Giuseppe Finaldi. 2008

Political History

The following represent the most recent works in Italian political history acquired by the Stanford University Libraries

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  1. Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Monasteriensis : Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Münster 2012)

    General Editors, Astrid Steiner-Weber and Karl A.E. Enenkel ; Editors, Concetta Bianca, Hélène Cazes, Reinhold F. Glei, Jacqueline Glomski, Felipe González Vega, Judith Henderson and Stephen Murphy. 2015

  2. Aesthetic revolutions and twentieth-century avant-garde movements

    Ales̆ Erjavec, editor. 2015

  3. Africa and World War II

    Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University), Carolyn A. Brown (Rutgers University-New Brunswick), Timothy Parsons (Washington University in St. Louis), Ahmad Sikainga (Ohio State University). 2015

  4. The age of Lincoln and Cavour : comparative perspectives on nineteenth-century American and Italian nation-building

    Enrico Dal Lago. 2015

  5. Les âges de la vie dans la pensée politique florentine : (ca 1480-1532)

    Cécile Terreaux-Scotto. 2015

  6. An alternative labour history : worker control and workplace democracy

    edited by Dario Azzellini. 2015

  7. Ancient Samnium : settlement, culture, and identity between history and archaeology

    Rafael Scopacasa. 2015

  8. Anni di piombo, penne di latta : (1963-1980, gli scrittori dentro gli anni complicati)

    Roberto Contu. 2015

  9. Architectural temperance : Spain and Rome, 1700-1759

    Victor Deupi. 2015

  10. Art of Renaissance Venice 1400-1600

    Loren Partridge. 2015