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• The revival of a historic journey across Spain [pastoralism; transhumance] -- BBCfutureplanet (23 September 2021)
  
  

• Maps
  
  
  • Italy -- The CIA World Factbook
  • Italy > Map -- National Geographic
  • Italian Peninsula -- Wikitravel
  • Atlas of Italy-- Wikimedia
    
  • Imperial History of the Middle East: 5000 Years of History in 90 seconds -- Maps of War
  • [Giambattista] Nolli Map of Rome (1748) -- InfoGraphics Lab, University of Oregon
    
    
• UMD Library Catalogue
  
  
  • JSTORE
    
    
• The Library of Congress
  
  
  • Global Gateway > Portals to the World > Italy

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• country profiles
  
  
  • Italy -- World Bank
  • Italy -- CIA World Factbook
  • Italy -- U.S. Department of State
  • Italy -- CountryWatch
  • Italy -- BBC News
  • Italy -- NationMaster.com
  • Italy -- Library of Congress Country Studies
  • Italy -- CountryReports.org
    
  • Italy -- Wikipedia
  • Portal: Italy -- Wikepedia
    • Outline of Italy
    • Index of Italy-related articles
      
      
• Region > Asia > Europe/Russia > Western Europe > Italy -- Council on Foreign Relations
  
  

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• general information
  
  
  • Adminet > World > Western Europe > Italy
    
    
• timelines
  
  
  • BBC News timeline: Italy
  • World News Atlas > Europe > Italy
  • CNT news timeline: Italy
    
    
• holidays
  
  
  • Holidays in Italy -- Wikipedia
  • Public and Banking Holidays for Italy -- Q++ Studio
    
    
• travel
  
  
  • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy > Visas to Enter Italy
  • Lonely Planet Worldguide > Europe > Italy
  • Italian Government Tourist Board
    • Italy by Region
    • General Information
      
      
• national anthem
  
  
  • Wikipedia > National anthem> List of national anthems> Italy > Il Canto degli Italiani (the Song of the Italians) – also known as Fratelli d'Italia and l'Inno di Mameli
  • national-anthems.net > Europe > Italy

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• newspapers / newsnetworks specific to Italy and its environs

• The Media in Italy -- BBC News
• AllYouCanRead.com > Newspapers > Europe > Italy
• The Internet Public Library > Newspapers > Europe > Italy
• OnlineNewspapers.com > Italy
• economist.com > countries > Italy
• GlobalEDGE: International Resource Desk > Country Insights > Italy
• topix.net » Front Page » World News » Europe » Italy
  
  
• newspapers / newsnetworks of regional and European scope
  
  
  • BBC News Headlines from Europe
  • BBC World Service
  • BBC Online
  • EuroNews
  • The New York Times Knowledge Network
  • Migration Policy Institute
    
    
• radio
  
  
  • OneWorld Radio

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• government / government resources
  
  
  • The Embassy of Italy in the United States
  • The Embassy of the United States in Rome, Italy
  • U.S. International Information Programs: Europe and Eurasia -- U.S. policy and issues related to Europe and Eurasia
  • The Politics of Devolution -- Open University
    
    
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
  
  
• The European Union
  
  
  • Italy
  • Activities
  • Documents
  • European Youth Portal
  • Information Sources
  • Languages
  • News
  • Regional Policy
    
    
• European Union related WebSites
  
  
  • Inside Europe: A Guide to the Changing Face of the European Union -- BBC New
  • A-Z of EU Jargon -- BBC New
  • Profile: The European Union -- BBC News
    
    

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• language
  
  
  • Italian Dictionaries
  • Italian language -- Wikipedia
  • Languages of Italy -- Living Languages of Europe

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• food

  see also Sicily > Food

  • eLook.org > European Recipes > Italian
  • Lynne Rossetto Kasper: The Splended Table (MPR)
  • Lynne Rossetto Kasper
    • The Italian Country Table (Scribner, 1999)
    • The Splendid Table: Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Food (William Morrow, 1992)
  • Mario Batali
  • Italian Cuisine -- Wikipedia
    • Cuisine of Italy
    • Cookbook:Cuisine of Italy
    • Italian desserts
  • Ancient Rome and wine -- Wikipedia
  • Placenta (food) -- Wikipedia
  • Roman cuisine -- Wikipedia
  • ItalianMade.com
    • Pandoro
  • Saveur: Savor a World of Authentic Cuisine > Italian
  • World Food Habits: Bibliography -- Robert Dirks
  • Italy -- Anthropology of Food-Food Science
  • CliffordAWright.com (Mediterranean)
  • World Hearth Circle of International Cooking > Italian
  • Salami and sausages the traditional way -- BBC News (7 February 2008)
  • Italian Food Info
  • "Slow Food" -- National Geographic
  • Books on Italian food/cuisine
    • Counihan, Carole. Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence. New York: Routledge, 2004.
  • Italy -- Epicurious.com
  • Romer, Elizabeth. The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley. London: Weidenfeld, 1984. (NY: North Point Press, 1989)
    
  • Standing, Tom. A History of the World in 6 Glasses. NY: Walker, 2005.
  • Food in Italy -- Food in Every Country
  • Food and Drink > Italian -- findhow.com
  • practicallyedible.com
    • Italian Food
    • Roman Food
    • Sicilian Food
  • Kostioukovitch, Elena. Why Italians Love to Talk About Food. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. [English translation by Anne Milano Appel, 2009]
  • The Origins & Types of Pasta -- Italiancook
  • Bell, Rudolph M. Holy Anorexia. University Of Chicago Press, 1987.
  • Italian -- Worldwide Recipes, Joe Barkson
  • Helstosky, Carol F. Garlic and Oil: Food and Politics in Italy. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2005.
  • Albala, Ken. Three World Cuisines Italian, Mexican, Chinese. AltiMira, 2012.
  • Krondl, Michael. The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice. NY: Ballantine, 2007.
  • List of Italian Desserts by Region -- Italy Revisited, Mary Melfi
  • Parasecoli, Fabio. Al Dente: A History of Food in Italy. London: Reaktion Books, 2014.
  • Wilkins, John. M. and Shaun Hill. Food in the Ancient World. Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.
  • The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist' -- BBCNews (05 August 2015)
  • The secret behind Italy’s rarest pasta -- BBCtravel (19 October 2016)
    
  • Grigson, Jane. The Observer Guide to European Cookery. London: Michael Joseph, 1983.
  • It’s Official: Naples Pizza Is One of Civilization’s Glories -- The New York Times (13 December 2017)
  • Italy’s practically perfect food [Parmigiano-Reggiano] -- BBCtravel (28 January 2019)
  • The truth about Italy’s white truffles -- BBCtravel (09 January 2018)
    
  • Pandoro Is Italy’s Christmas Miracle. Easter Is Another Story -- The New York Times (22 December 2017)
  • Polzonetti, Pierpaolo. Feasting and Fasting in Opera: From Renaissance Banquets to the Callas Diet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
    
    
  religion

• Internet Sacred Text Archive
• Sacred Destinations > Italy -- Holly Hayes
• Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos -- United States National Library of Medicine
  
  

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• the arts
  
  
  • The Center for Italian Opera Studies -- The University of Chicago
  • Timeline of Art History > Italy (Northern) (Central) (Southern) -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • The Mind of Leonardo: The Universal Genius at Work -- Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza [IMSS]
  • Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired By Ancient Rome -- J. Paul Getty Museum
  • Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Sketches of Northern Italy -- Glasgow School of Art
    
  • Art and Literature in Siena, 1250-1600 -- University of Leeds
  • 500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection -- New York Public Library
  • The Beazley Archive -- Classical Art Research Centre, The University of Oxford
  • Medieval & Renaissance -- Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice -- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • 500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection -- New York Public Library
    
    
• architecture
  
  
  • Vernacular Architecture of the World: Great Buildings Online > Architecture of Europe > Italy -- Kevin Matthews and Artifice, Inc.
    • Florence
    • Mantua
    • Milan
    • Rome
    • Siena
    • Turin
    • Venice
    • Vicenza
      
      
  • Le Plan de Rome -- l'Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
  • Villa Cicogna Mozzoni ["...at Bisuschio on the Varese-Porto Ceresio line, not far from Lake Lugano"]
  • Photosynth: Europe > Italy > Rome > The Coliseum -- National Geographic
    
    
• cities
  
  
  • Major Cities -- Lonely Planet
  • World Heritage Cities
  • Historic Cities > Countries > Italy >

    	Ancona	Gallipoli	Ostia	Siena
    	Baia	Genova	Otranto	Taranto
    	Bari	Livorno	Palermo	Trapani
    	Benevento	Mantua	Parma	Tremiti
    	Cagliari	Matera	Pavia	Tricarico
    	Civitavecchia	Messina	Pozzuoli	Trieste
    	Florence	Milan	Rome	Turin
    	Fondi	Milazzo	Reggio	Venice
    	Gaeta	Napoli	Salerno	Verona

    
    
  • other
    • Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption -- The Field Museum
    • Rome -- Virtual Sweden
      
      
  • Cities Around the World -- University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
  • Castagneto Carducci, Province of Livorno, region of Tuscany, Italy
    
  • Ancient Rome History Comes Alive With New App -- Discovery News (03 December 2015)
  • Why Venice is really a small town -- BBCtravel (06 April 2016)
    
    
• Archaeology
  
  
  • Pompeii -- Top 10 Discoveries of 2011, Archaeology Volume 65 Number 1, January/February 2012

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• other WebSites
  
  
  • Famous Italian People
    • Garibaldi and the Risorgimento -- Center for Digital Initiative, Brown University Library
    • Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design -- Victoria adn Albert Museum
  • Contemporary Italian Cultural Anthropology G R Saunders Annual Review of Anthropology . Volume 13, Page 447-466, Oct 1984 [Citation | PDF (1305 KB)| Related
  • Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
  • Italy's Population Problem -- Sylvia Poggioli, NPR
  • Their Circular Life -- Lorenzo Fonda and David Terenzi
  • UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
  • Global Voices Online -- Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School
  • H-Net Discussion Networks -- Humanities and Social Sciences ONLINE
    • H-Gender-MidEast -- Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Western Asia, Iran, and the Mediterranean
  • UNESCO WebWorld Portals >> Observatory Portal on the Information Society >> Regions >> [International] >> Europe >> Italy
  • Migration Information Source -- Migration Policy Institute
    • European Migration
    • Italy
    • Global Data Center
  • Electoral Geography: Italy -- Alexander Kireev and Alexey Sidorenko
  • History of Italy: Primary Documents -- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
  • The Speculum Romanae Magnifcientiae (Engravings, 16th century Italy)-- University of Chicago Library
  • Fish Sauce Used to Date Pompeii Eruption -- Discovery News (9/29/08)
    • Fish Sauce Used to Date Pompeii Destruction -- MSNBC (9/29/08)
  • DNA testing on 2,000-year-old bones in Italy reveal East Asian ancestry -- EurekAlert (01 February 2010)
  • Rome: Emperors and Poets -- Guides to the Ancient World, Guardian (11 November 2010)
  • Roman DNA Project Gives Voice to the Silent Majority -- Past Horizons (17 November 2011)
  • In Ancient Pompeii, Trash and Tombs Went Hand in Hand -- Past Horizons (04 January 2012)
  • Lead Poisoning in Rome: The Skeletal Evidence -- Past Horizons (24 Febraury 2012)
  • Travel Through the History of Mount Vesuvius -- Theresa Caruso
    
  • Italian Culture: Facts, Customs & Traditions -- LiveScience (26 March 2014)
  • The compelling case for working a lot less -- BBCcapital (05 December 2017)
  • Italy woman marries herself in 'fairytale without prince' -- BBCNews (27 September 2017)
  • Where to Invade Next: Work Hours and Vacation Days in Italy -- Michael Moore (9 December 2019)
    • Italy’s work culture looks very different: shorter workweeks, guaranteed paid vacation and holidays, and real time off. In this Where to Invade Next segment, Michael Moore visits Italian workers and employers to see how generous leave and humane hours can still align with productivity—and what the U.S. might learn.

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• bibliography
  
  
  • Read: Gannon, Martin J., and Rajnandini (Raj) K. Pillai. (2015). Chapter 19, “The Italian Opera.” Understanding Global Cultures, 6^thEd.Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. ("The Italian Opera" 4^th edition)
    
    
• books
  
  
  • Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.
    
  • Heywood, Paolo, ed. 2024. New Anthropologies of Italy: Politics, History and Culture. Books at JSTOR: Open Access. New York: Berghahn. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.9891577.