Italian

Collection overview

The Italian collection is grouped within other Romance language and literature collections.

Collection strengths include:

  • Emphasis on literature, with primary texts collected mainly in the original language
  • Critical material available in both Italian and English, together with some English language translations of key or representative texts
  • Substantial holdings of related periodical literature and Special Collections material

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Collection location

  • Most books are located on the 6th floor South Block
  • All items available on open access will display the location ITALIAN, with the classmark prefix 3 eg ITALIAN South Block 6th Floor (3) XMA Cam
  • Most periodicals are located on the periodicals open shelves (PS) on the 3rd floor South Block
  • Recent issues of periodicals are on display bays in the Goldsmiths Library – 4th floor South Block . For more information on finding journals, see our journals resources page>
  • Some items are held in the closed access stacks. These will display the location Stack Service. Please request at the Stack Service desk on the 4th floor South Block
  • To locate individual titles use the online catalogue

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Classmarks for Italian

All classmarks in this collection have a numerical prefix of 3 eg ITALIAN South Block 6th Floor (3) XMA Cam

Italian language XL
General history and criticism XLA
Grammar - written XLC
Grammar - spoken XLD
Dialects XLV
Italian literature XM
General history and criticism XMA
Special aspects XMB
Poetry – general XMD
Drama – general XME
Novel – general XMF
Medieval XMJ
Renaissance XML
17th century XMM
18th century XMP
19th century XMQ
1900-1960 XMT
1960- XMU

For a more detailed explanation of classmarks see the Library's leaflet 'A guide to the classification scheme'.

Other libraries

For more information about Italian Studies holdings in other academic libraries in the London area, please consult the M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries website: www.m25lib.ac.uk. For elsewhere in the UK, consult the Consortium of University and Research Libraries catalogue: www.copac.ac.uk

Contact details

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