This website, run by Pianetascuola and Einaudi, contains a number of digital primary source texts from the 13th century to today. The texts are often available for download in PDF and well-suited to reading on a tablet or e-reader.

Run by the University of Rome La Sapienza this digital library contains a vast amount of Italian primary sources ranging from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

A searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy. This project was conceived and is directed by Professor Robert Hollander of Princeton University.

A growing archive of materials dedicated to Boccaccio's Decameron. This mini-library, created at Brown University, includes the text in its established critical edition (Branca), sources, translations, annotations and commentaries, bibliographies, a selection of critical and interpretive essays, as well as visual and audio materials.

Portale di informatica umanistica per gli studi italianistici.

Produced by the University of Chicago Library this database provides bio-bibliographical information and a growing selection of full text titles from Italian women authors from the 13th century up to present day.

Hosted by the Associazione Italiana Autori Scrittori Artisti this site includes digitized primary and secondary sources on Italian literature, history, and culture, including cinema, television, art, music and photography.

Full-text e-library for Italian literature (out of copyright). Also accessible by visually impaired people.

Project Gutenberg offers free ebooks in Italian language to download to your PC, Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android or other portable device.

A multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations.