Italian History Research Guide

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Biographical Sources

Selected subject headings:: Italy--Biography; Italy--Biography--Bibliography

Archivio Biografico Italiano. [microform] New York: K.G. Saur, 1988.: "Reproduces in one alphabetical sequence more than 200,000 articles from 321 Italian language biographical dictionaries publ. 1646-1931."; Indexed by:; Indice biografico italiano = Italian biographical index comp. by Tomasso Nappo, Paolo Noto (Munchen; N.Y.: K.G. Saur, 1993. 4 v.); Continued by:; Drawn largely from 20th-century publications and covering from earliest history up to the late 1950s; includes more than 180,000 people from approximately 110 sources. (Balay, AH258)

Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Ed. Alberto M. Ghisalberti. Roma: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1960-: "A scholarly dictionary of national biograhy with signed biographies of Italians from the 5th century to the present, exclusive of living persons. A bibliography of source material is included for each sketch." (Balay, AH260)

Manzoni, Cesare. Biografia Italica: Saggio Bibliografico di Opere Italiane a Stampa per Servivre alla Biografi degli Italiani. Osnabruck: Biblio Verlag, 1981.: "Includes general bibliographical dictionaries and works of collective biography, volumes of local and regional biography, etc. Works are grouped by type, subdivided geographically as appropriate. Index of authors. editors, and anonymous titles." (Balay, AH266)

Il Movimento Operaio Italiano: Dizionario Biografico, 1853-1943. Ed. Franco Andreucci, Tommaso Detti. Rome: Editori Riuniti, 1975-: "Offers signed articles of substantial length, with bibliographies, on persons active in the Italian workers' movement.; Vol. 6 is an index and includes a general bibliography, p. 159-308." (Balay, AH262)

Who's Who In Italy. 1957/58- Milan: Intercontinental Book, 1958-: "The biographical section includes more than 9,000 entries (1986 ed.), followed by more than 400 pages of directory information on political, commercial, and cultural institutions." (Balay, AH265)

Chi e? Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani d'oggi. Ed. 1-7. Roma, Scarano-- 1948.: Issued irregularly; Suppl. 1929; 2. ed. 1931; 3. ed. 1936; 4. ed. 1950; 5. ed. 1948; 6. ed. 1957; 7. ed. 1961.; Another work with the same title was issues in 1908 by Guido Biagi.; A who's who of contemporary Italian personalities. (Balay, AJ271)

Pizzi, Francesco. Italica Gens; repertori a stampa di biografia generale italiana. Cremona, Moschetti, 1934.: A bibliography of 1,238 biographical works in three parts: (1)general; (2)arranged by locality; and (3)arranged by subject.(Balay, AJ276)