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Italia in General
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"What we are is what we were."

John Quincy Adams

Government: Anthem
Composed in 1847 by Michele Novaro - Words by Goffredo Mameli
Embassy of Italy in
Washington, DC.
http://www.italyemb.org/inno.htm
Italy on the Web http://www.ilsegnalibro.com/inno.html 
Fratelli d’Italia

Government: Citizenship
Consulate General of Italy in New York http://www.italconsulnyc.org/
Embassy of Italy in the United States http://www.italyemb.org/usefullinks.htm  
The Italian Genealogical Group http://www.italiangen.org/art3.stm 
Italian citizenship for Americans of Italian descent.
Regalis http://www.regalis.com/citizen.htm  
State Department Policies on
Dual Citizenship
http://www.richw.org/dualcit/
U.S. State Department Consula Affaris http://travel.state.gov/

Government: Constitution
The Constitution of the Italian Republic http://www.giurcost.org/fonti/cost_ingl.html   
Constituzione della Repubblica Italiana http://www.crs4.it/Letteratura/Costituzione.html 
il Senato organi e funzioni http://www.senato.it/funz/cost/home.htm  

Government: Flags & Arms
ABC Country Book of Italy http://www.theodora.com/flags_8a.html
International and Civic Arms http://www.bng.nl/ngw/indexgb.htm
National symbol of Italy and many arms of municipalities.
Flags of the World http://www.allstates-flag.com/flags
World Flag Database: Italy http://www.flags.net/ITAL.htm
National flag, civil ensign, naval ensign, and detail arms.

Government: Politics
Embassy of Italy in
Washington, DC.
http://www.italyemb.org/generalinfo.htm 

italian government information:
The Italian Government 
Biographies
Political Parties
Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati)
Senate (Senato)
Regional Governments
Municipalities (Amministrazioni Comunali) Yahoo Italia 
Municipalities (Amministrazioni Comunali) Comuni.it 
Italian Presidents (1945 - )
Italian Prime Ministers (1945 - ) 
La Gazzetta Ufficiale online
Governments on the WWW: Italy http://gksoft.com/govt/en/it.html
Links to web sites of governmental institutions and politics in Italy.

Historical: General
Arcaini’s Italy Site- The History of Italy










 

 

 

 

 

http://www.arcaini.com/italy/italyhistory/ItalyHistory.html 

Origin of the name "Italy"
Early Italy
Bronze Age
People of Italy
Roman Italy
Roman Empire
Middle Ages
Lombards
Franks
Ottonians
Holy Roman Empire (Incl. European Dynasties 962-1806)
Rise of the Italian City-States
Kingdom of Sicily
Italian Renaissance & Foreign Domination
Italian Unification
Napoleonic Era in Italy
Risorgimento
Italy's Unity
Kingdom Of Italy
Fascist Period
Rise of Fascism
Fascist Expansionism
World War II
Postwar Italy
Bill Thayer's Web Site

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/home.html 
As of 2/23/04: 2097 pages, 597 photos, 563 drawings & engravings, 69 plans, 59 maps. LacusCurtius a major site on Roman antiquity, including a photogazetteer of Roman and Etruscan cities and monuments, a site for teaching yourself to read Latin inscriptions, the complete Latin texts of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Quintus Curtius' Histories of Alexander the Great, the Saturnalia of Macrobius, and Censorinus' de Die Natali; the Aqueducts of Frontinus and the Architecture of Vitruvius in both Latin and English; a complete English translation of Cassius Dio's History of Rome; Rodolfo Lanciani's book Pagan and Christian Rome, Christian Hülsen's book on the Roman Forum, Thomas Codrington's book on Roman roads in Britain, large chunks of Platner's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, a fair amount of Ptolemy's Geography, various maps of the Roman Empire, and quite a bit more.
    LacusCurtius is also the repository for the RomanSites archives — an insane attempt at cataloguing, and even partly indexing, all Roman-related sites on the Web...
Cronologia.com http://www.cronologia.it/librodl.htm
The chronology for many topics
Il Circolo Calabrese (ICC) http://www.circolocalabrese.org
Calabrian history
History of Italy:
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History of Italy:
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History of Italy:
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History of Italy:
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History of Italy:
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http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/italy.html

The Formation of Latin Christendom: The Roman Church
(transcriptions & translations)

Holy Roman Empire: Frederick II and After
(transcriptions & translations)

Papa Anacleto II concede a Ruggero II il regno di Sicilia
Pope Anacletus II concedes the reign of Sicily to Roger II
(27 September 1130; Latin transcription)

Saint Francis of Assisi's Sermon to the Birds
(1220: English translation)

4300 Pisani giurano di mantenere l'alleanza fatta con Siena, Pistoia e Poggibonsi
4300 Citizens of Pisa Swear to Maintain the Alliance with Siena, Pistoia and Poggibonsi (July-August 1228; Latin/Italian transcription with explanatory notes in Italian)

Italian Renaissance
From the Internet Medieval Sourcebook. (transcriptions & translations)

Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Italy
(1348-1530; translated narratives & government records)

Catasto: Florentine tax data (Florence only)
(1427-1429; searchable datasets at Brown University)

Catasto: Census and Property Survey for Florentine Domains and the City of Verona in Fifteenth Century Italy
(1427-1429, 1458, 1480 [Florence]; 1425 & 1502 [Verona]; searchable datasets at the University of Wisconsin)

The Ilardi Microfilm Collection
Renaissance Diplomatic Documents

(ca.1450 -- 1500; photographic facsimiles).

Exploration and Expansion
From the Internet Medieval Sourcebook. (transcriptions & translations)

Venetian Sailing Directions
(1499; facsimile)
Quote from exhibit: "This early book of sailing directions served as a handy guide for the sailor and a storehouse of practical information for laymen. The use of the hand and zodiac for information was considered vital to the 15th century Mediterranean navigator."

The Prince by Niccolņ Macchiavelli
(c. 1505; English translation)

Medici Archive Project
Guide to historical sources in the Medici Granducal Archives, with sample documents
(16th - 18th centuries; Italian transcriptions and English translations).

Letters From the Front written by officers of The Royal Sardinian Army
during the Wars of the Austrian succession.
(1734-1747; Italian transcriptions)

Garibaldi Encourages his Soldiers
during the battles for unification and independence.
(1860; English translation)


World War I Document Archive
(pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions) Major Resource

News, Documents and Position Papers on the Aegean Dispute
between Italy, Greece and Turkey
(1932 - present; translations and transcriptions)

Munich Pact
Agreement concluded at Munich between Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy (29 September 1938; English translation)

World War II
A collection of documents related to WWII From the Avalon Project.


McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
including essays of important economic thinkers from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, and other countries.
(English transcriptions and translations)

La Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana
(Italian language transcription with amendments through 2003)

La Costituzione Italiana
The Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin

Guide to Law Online: Italy
Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.

International Civic [Coats of] Arms: Italy
(Facsimiles).

Torrione Castle
Including commentary on the Shroud of Turin and other Italian historical. l documents from the Middle Ages through World War II

Archival Documents of Bologna
from Evidence! Europe Reflected in Archives
(Facsimiles and English summaries)

Biblioteca Italiana Telematica: Collezioni
A burgeoning online document collection including sources of national and local history (Facsimiles and transcriptions)

(PIE )
http://www.cimorelli.com/pie/history/histmenu.htm

Historical: Ruins
The Colosseum http://www.kent.wednet.edu/curriculum/soc_studies/rome/
Colosseum.html
In Italy Online  http://www.initaly.com/regions/sardinia/nuraghe.htm
Le Nuraghe Sardinia's Unique Archeological Sites
Pompeii http://www.kent.wednet.edu/curriculum/soc_studies/rome/PompHistory.html
Roma: The Colosseum http://www.romainteractive.com/colosseo.htm
The Story of Pompeii http://www.angelfire.com/ca/celiahome/index.html

Historical: Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry
The Bourbon-Two Sicilies Dynasty http://www.chivalricorders.org/royalty/bourbon/twosicilies/tsfamily.htm
Columbus' Coat of Arms http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/full-images/columbus.gif
D’Addezio.com
http://www.daddezio.com/genealogy/heraldry/index.html
Searchable database
A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry http://www002.upp.so-net.ne.jp/saitou/parker/ 
By James Parker
Heraldica: Franēois
Velde's Heraldry Site
http://www.heraldica.org/
Heraldry in Italy http://www.heraldica.org/topics/national/italy.htm
Heraldry in Pre-Unification Italy http://www.heraldica.org/topics/national/italy2.htm
International Civic Arms http://www.surf.to/heraldry
Italian Civic Heraldry
http://www.ngw.nl/indexgb.htm   
Facsimiles of the arms of several municipalities.
Italian Genealogy from L. Mendola http://www.regalis.com/italgen.htm
Italian Genealogy Homepage
http://www.italgen.com
Italian Heraldry, Nobility and Genealogy
How professionals genealogists determine nobility in Italy.

Arbėresh
Arbėresh- Arvanitka- Cham http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/arvanita.html
Clan Cyberesh - The Arbėresh
Mailing List
http://www.leaptoad.com/lists/arbdirectory.php3
To find out more about this mailing list go to
http://www.leaptoad.com/lists/arberesh.html
( ICC )- Albanese in Calabria http://www.circolocalabrese.org
Arbėresh in Calabria http://www.initaly.com/regions/calabria/trip-1.htm 

Volcanoes
Encarta Virtual Globe Online: Vesuvius, Italy http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/SRPage.aspx?
search=vesuvius
 
Italy Volcanoes and Volcanics http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Italy/framework.html
Italy’s Volcanoes: The Cradle of Volcanology http://boris.vulcanoetna.com/ 

http://stromboli.net/boris 

Stromboli, Italy

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/stromboli/
stromboli.html

Volcanoes.Com http://www.volcanoes.com/

Earthquakes
Historical Documents http://www.ingv.it/~roma/attivita/pererischio/macrosismica/Hist/hist.html 
Calabria 1659 http://www.ingv.it/~roma/attivita/pererischio/macrosismica/
Hist/Bonito_en_781-782.html
   
Messina - Reggio 1908 http://www.sicilianculture.com/news/earthquake.htm 

Sites to Explore
ABC Country Book of Italy http://www.theodora.com/wfb/italy_government.html
Geography, people, flag, government, economy, transportation, communications and defense.
ABC - Tutti i Sitti d’Italia http://www.abcitaly.com
90,000 sites and still growing!
Focus on Italy http://www.focusmm.com/italy/it_anamn.htm
Italia Mia http://www.italiamia.com/
In Italy Online http://www.initaly.com
Italy on the Web http://www.italyontheweb.org 

http://www.ilsegnalibro.com/
 
Yahoo! Regional: Countries: Italy http://www.yahoo.com/regional/countries/italy/

 

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