• Enciclopedia Italiana - REF AE 35 .E5 - 41 volumes.
• Encyclopedia of European Cinema - REF PN 1993.5 .E8 V56 1995

• Cambridge Dizionario Italian-Inglese, Inglese-Italiano - REF PC 1640 .C36 1985
• DII Dizionario Inglese Italiano - Italiano Inglese de Paravia e Oxford University Press - REF PC1640 .D28 2001 All headwords are given phonetic transcription - a rarity among Italian dictionaries.
• Garzanti (online dictionary) - Free, but registration is required.  Italian/Italian, English/Italian and French/Italian dictionaries.
• bab.la Dictionary - bab.la is a language portal that offers dictionary translations, language quizzes & games and vocabulary lessons for learning

Guides/Summaries

• Contemporary Authors - Contemporary Literary Criticism - Dictionary of Literary Biography

   

  Biographical and critical information on novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers.
• 20th Century Italian Poets - REF PQ 4057 .I73 1997
• Dictionary of Italian Literature - REF PQ 4006 .D45 1996
• Italian Novelists since WWII, 1945-65 - REF PQ 4057 .I73 1997
• Italian Novelists since WWII, 1965-90 - REF PQ4174 .I85 1998
• Italian Women Writers - REF PQ4063 .I88 1994
• Oxford Companion to Italian Literature - REF PQ4006 .O84 2002
• Year's Work on Modern Language Studies - REF PB1 .Y45 - Annual review evaluating scholarly work on languages and literatures other than English