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Pre-20th Century

Orsini family property and administration documents.
The Orsini are "one of most important families in Italian history; they produced three popes, about thirty cardinals and 62 senators of Rome, and were related to a number of royal houses of Europe, among other high-profile accomplishments."
From UCLA Digital Collections.
(1150-1950; Italian facsimiles, English interface)
Catalogue of Italian works.
(16th-20th centuries; Italian and English)
Collection of digitized newspapers from Pisa.
(1847-1934; Italian facsimiles)
Browsable by alphabetical title or by year.
Available in English, German, or Italian interface.
(19th to 20th centuries; newspaper facsimiles in German or Ladino language)

1900-1939

Collection of pamphlets on a number of topics.
(20th century; Italian)
Database of newspapers and periodicals of importance for European cultural history.
(20th century; facsimiles)
Social and political periodicals and monographs digitized by the Luigi Sturzo Institute.
(20th century; facsimile images)
Digital Library of the PARRI Institute for History and Memories of the Twentieth Century.
A large collection of images in each category (see below), browsable or keyword searchable.
(20th century; monographs, periodicals, posters, pamphlets, photographs, political and commemorative postcards)
1,200 pamphlets from collection at Istituto Storico della Resistenza in Toscana, Florence.
(20th century; Italian facsimiles)
View facsimile by selecting Copia Digitale on record page.
90 pamphlets, mainly political, from collection at Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Florence.
(20th century; Italian facsimiles)
Facsimiles, including posters and notices, related to contemporary political and social history in Italy.
(20th century; Italian facsimiles)
Footage collection includes weddings and other events involving the royal family.
Compiled by British Pathe
(20th century; videos; English interface)
Treaty ending Turco-Italian War. Also called First Treaty of Lausanne.
(October 18, 1912; English)
Documenting events from before Sarajevo until after Versailles.
(pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions)
Major Resource.
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
Diplomatic Correspondence on the Relations of Austria-Hungary to Italy from 20 July 1914 to 23 May 1915.
(20 July 1914 - 23 May, 1915; facsimiles of correspondence in German and French)
The Treaty of London, which brought Italy into World War I on the side of the Allies, was signed on April 26th 1915. It made promises of territory and assistance to Italy that were later not honoured.
From Alpha History
(1915; English transcription)
Photographs and other documentation on the war.
(1915-1918; Italian)
Local newspapers and other historical items of South Tyrol, particularly from the Fascist era.
(1917-1941; facsimile images in Italian, Ladino and German)
Stopped warfare between Italy and Austria-Hungary.
(1918; English translation)
The photographic archive of the Istituto Luce, with its heritage of over 3 million images, documents the whole of the twentieth century and is a faithful chronicle of the changes in our country.
From Luce Cinecitta
(1919-2010; Italian; photos)
A political weekly available for searching at the article level.
(1922-1925; searchable database of facsimile images)
Growing database of newsreels from Mussolini to Fellini.
(1924-1964; digital video files)
Archives of digitized newspaper "l'Unità," which closed in 2014.
(1924-2014; Italian facsimiles)
Agreements between the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
(1925; English translation)

World War II (1939-1945)

List of digitized newspapers.
See Atesia Augusta in the list of digitized newspapers.
(1939-1943; Italian facsimiles)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
from Leon Trotsky's 1930-32 pamphlet, also includes audio recording.
(English transcription)
Between Italy, Greece and Turkey.
(1932 - present; translations and transcriptions)
Agreement concluded at Munich between Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy.
(29 September 1938; English translation)
As announced in the Völkischer Beobachter.
(23 May 1939; English translation)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
A collection of documents related to WWII.
From the Avalon Project.
Official (mainly U.S.) government histories, source documents, and other primary references.
(1939-1945; English transcriptions and translations)
Through the letters of Melis to his wife Gabriella it is possible to follow most of the events he experienced in East Africa, both free and as a prisoner. He wrote often enough, providing much information, especially in the period when he was free.
(1940-1944; Italian; facsimiles and photos)
Signed at Berlin.
(27 September 1940; English transcription)
Last letters of those sentenced to death and deported by the Italian Resistance.
(1941-1945; Italian)
By Franklin D. Roosevelt, on the day following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
(8 December 1941; English transcription)
Official instrument of armistice and surrender of Italy, Germany and Japan in World War II.
(October 4, 1945; transcription)
  • Foreign relations between Italy and the US
Documents from US State Department and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1945
Peace Conference: US draft treaties with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland; 29 July-15 October 1946
1946
1948
1949
1950
1951
1955-1957
1958-1960
1961-1963
1964-1968
1969-1972
(1945-1972; English transcriptions)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(Scroll down to Italy)
(1945 to the present; transcriptions and translations)

1945-present

News reports and videos from the time when the suffragette movement finally succeeded.
From Rai
(1946; Italian; videos)
Information on and primary documents from anti-revisionists movements, organizations and parties.
From the Encyclopedia of anti-Revisionism On-Line
(post-WWII to present; English)
This collection follows China's relations with countries in Western Europe from the early 1950s through the 1980s. It includes documents from China, Italy, France, West Germany, and other countries.
From the Wilson Center Digital Archive
(1950-1976; English transcriptions)
90 titles, publications of Ukrainian émigrés living in Germany, Austria, Italy and other Western European countries.
Digitized by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).
(1945-1956; PDF facsimiles)
This community foreshadowed the formation of the EU. It was dissolved in 2002 and its functions were absorbed by the EU. Italy was one of the original members.
(1951; English)
This collection, drawn from Andreotti's papers held by the Istituto Luigi Sturzo, features letters, telegrams, reports, notes, and memoranda written by officials from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) and the Ministry of Defense and various Italian Ambassadors and diplomatic advisers.
(1960-1997; Italian facsimiles; English interface)
Treaty between Italy and Yugoslavia on the delimitation of the frontier.
(1975; English translation)
This is a collection of primary source documents dating from 1979 to 1983 – during a period of confrontation and building tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States. The documents in the collection come from Dutch, German, and Italian archives.
From the Wilson Center Digital Archive
(1979-1983; English interface)
A collection of the digitized newspaper "The Republic".
(1984 to the present; Italian transcriptions)
A collection of digitized newspapers.
(1992 to the present; Transcriptions in Italian)
Italy official data files and documents, including country files, parents' occupation, and sample data.
Files available for download
(2002-2016; Italian; English interface)

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