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 5th floor
All items available on open access will display the location ITALIAN, with the classmark prefix 3 eg ITALIAN 5th Floor (3) XMA Cam
All periodicals except for the most recent issues are now shelved in the Stack Service and need to requested via the Library catalogue.
Recent issues of periodicals are on display bays in the Periodicals Library, 4th floor. 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 stack items through the online catalogue.
To locate individual titles use the online catalogue

Related collections

Art – for Italian art, architecture and history of art
Film – books on Italian film are with the Film and Media Studies collection, with films in the DVD collection
History – for Italian history and cultural history
Music
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Special Collections – eg Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature (early economic history, travel), Porteus Library (French Revolution)
Dictionaries and reference works in the Information Centre, 4th floor

Classmarks for Italian

All classmarks in this collection have a numerical prefix of 3 eg ITALIAN 5th 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

1960-2010: XMU

2011- : XMV

For a more detailed explanation of classmarks see the Library's leaflet 'A guide to the classification scheme' which can be downloaded here.

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