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The Italian
Embassy in the United States has some excellent starting points for
Italian students including information on the government, culture, history
and current events.
Italian
Art
Art
History Resources on the Web A comprehensive guide for searching
any art history topic.
History of Italian Art
The National Gallery of Art has compiled extensive information on Italian
Art. This page will serve as a starting point for searching a specific era
or artist.
Italian Art Index An excellent listing of sites available on
Italian Art produced by Genealogy Online. 
Italian Art and Museums
Compiled by a travel company, this site uses a clickable map to get to an
exact location for viewing art.
Italian Renaissance Art
Project Provides information about Italian Renaissance history,
artwork, and the artistic masters Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo
Buonarroti, Giotto Di Bondone and Sandro Botticelli.
The
Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art The Melbourne Museum
exhibition "Three Centuries of Italian Art" is an overview of 300 years of
Italian art from 1500 to 1800 including masterworks from the Renaissance,
Mannerist, Baroque and Rococo eras.
Italian Culture and
History
Brigham Young
Italian Index At this academic site you will find links to
all areas of Italian History including Paleolithic, Etruscans, Ancient
Rome, the Middle Ages, Humanism, the Renaissance, Late Renaissance,
Baroque, 1700s, Romanticism, the Risorgimento, and Contemporary themes. Note:
The links on this page have not been updated, but can be access by
clicking on any of the links and changing "humanities" in the URL to "frenital".
Then use your Enter key and you will be routed to the page.
Famous
Italians Biographies of well-Known Italians written by
University of Wisconsin students.
History of Italy
Links to primary documents in Italian history.
Italian
History
An overview of Italian history including early Italy,
Rome, Middle Ages, Italian Renaissance and Foreign domination,
unification, Kingdome of Italy, Fascist period, and postwar Italy.
Italian
History Produced by University
of Colorado at Colorado Springs, this website is a guide to resources and
research with great links to Italian history information.
Italian History Index The Italian History Index
provides Internet resources on the History of Italy, whether from Italy
and abroad, in both Italian and other languages.
Italiamia A large list
of links to Italian web sites.
Italiansrus Your guide to
Italian Culture on the Web.
Italian
Study at Browns University Nicely designed and very complete
source for Italian information.
 Slice
of Italy Links to history, culture, festivals,
travel information
and even stamps!
Italian
Food
Ciao Italia: Food Stories
Glossary
of Italian Cooking Terminology
Great for learning Italian food
vocabulary.
Italian
Etiquette Learn Spaghetti
etiquette.
Italian
Food Trinity College in Australia has located some yummy links
to Italian cooking.
Italian Food
Includes a short history of Italian food and region by region
descriptions of local flavors.
Italian Food
Pyramid The food pyramid with an Italian flavor.
Mediterranean Diet Explore the diet, includes some good
research links.
Italian
Geography and Travel
Directory
of Travel This commercial site offers great tips and links for
the traveler in Italy.
Geography of
Italy Concise information that includes links to the CIA
Factbook and World Atlas.
In
Italy Online is the one-stop site for travelers to Italy.
Italian
Geography Two excellent links to concise information about
Italy. English and Italian.
Italian
Geography Resources Available in Italian or English, this list
is a little hard to read but contains excellent links.
Let's Roam You can visit one of the cities on the map or journey
back in time to the Roman Era or Renaissance.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Department of Cultural
Promotion and Cooperation offers the latest in Italian culture. In Italian
Travel Tips and Tidbits Links to sites that will help plan a
trip to Italy.
In
The Italian Classroom
Celebrating
Cultures with Tomie de Paola (Grade 3 - 5)
A WebQuest which explores 3
cultures including Italy and is based in Tomie de Paola's books.
Italian
Culture (Grade 9 - 12) Created by Maria Cummaudo. English class where the teacher
invites me to expose their students to Italian culture and language.
Italian
WebQuests Several lessons for various grades that explore
Italian culture, travel and other subjects.
Italian Holidays and
Festivals
About.com-
Italian Holidays Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and many more
holidays are described.
Italian
Festivals and Celebrations Compiled by Trinity College in
Australia, there are some excellent resources for students interested in
Italian celebrations.
Italian
Holidays You're about to
enter Italy's best kept, and most wonderful secret...its parties and
celebrations.
Italian
Language Learning Activities
Oggi
E Domina Twenty free lessons for Italian study.
Pronunciation
of Italian (fonetiks.org)
Provi pronunciation of words, as well as a dictionary.
Italian Activities. List of activities for Spanish and Italian as
Second Languages.
Macromedia Flash
Activities Perfect for elementary students, these five
activities require Flash and RealAudio. Well worth the effort as they are
fun, colorful and very well done. Available in five languages.
Marostica,
una cittą incantevole A worksheet created by Marilyn Anania for
Level II Italian.
You Too Can Learn Italian
Three Italian lessons written by Lucio Chiappetti.
Dictionaries
About.com
Italian Dictionaries
Italian
Literature
and Storytelling
Books
with Italian Themes Books for children on Italian/Italian
American themes are available but not widely distributed on the shelves
of bookstores, libraries or even in our homes.
Decameron Web
(Grade 9 - 12) A growing hypermedia archive of materials
dedicated to Boccacchio's masterpiece.
Folklore
in Italy Created by Deborah Millemaci.
An impressive collection of information about the
history of folklore of the regions of Italy.
Italian Literature
Read Italian literature selections. In Italian.
Strega Nona
(Grade 3) Language arts lesson plan based on
the book "Strega Nona" by Tomie dePaola.
Italian
Music and Songs
Mama
Lisa's World Children songs and rhymes
Meri's Italian
Folksinging Page This site organizes the text of folk music songs of
Italy by region.
Italian
Music Index A comprehensive portal for Italian music and sound
resources.
Italian
Songs The words and ability to download several Italian songs
are included on this site. The link to some Italian-American personal
web sites are very interesting.
Sicilian
Culture Explores the sound of the tarantella.
Italian Newspapers and Media Resources
Italica
A radio station with live audio, current articles on programs and a
language course. In Italian, English or Spanish. Click on the
"Links" button for hundreds of cultural spots.
il Manefesto Italian
newspaper on-line.
L'Unione
Sarda On-Line Italian
newspaper on-line.
News
in Italian (LanguageBox.com)
Provides news in Italian. Includes La Stampa, L'Espresso, Repubblica, and
Corriere della Sera from Italy, as well as Corriere del Ticino from
Switzerland and CNN from the USA.
Media Resources RAI's list of links to television, radio, movie
and other media sites. In Italian
Zapping
Television news. In Italian.
Teacher
Created Websites
Howard
County Public Schools An excellent collection of
resources for the Italian educator is provided by this school district in
Maryland.
Mrs. O.
D'Aponte's Page A resource for students and teachers
of Italian, this page offers lesson plans, Italian language resources and
links to Italian cutural sites. Murry Bergtraum High School.
Other
Resources for Italian Teachers
American
Association Teachers of Italian (AATI)
Professional
Resources for Italian Teachers
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