UW Rome Center

• UW Libraries Services for Students & Faculty Studying at the Rome Center
• Rome Center Library Catalog
• Rome Center website
  • Rome Center Links page provides many helpful resources on these topics:
    • ROME: HISTORY, ART & ARCHITECTURE
    • ROME: TOURIST INFORMATION
    • ITALY: TRAVEL, TRANSPORTATION & MAPS
    • ITALIAN NEWS
    • ITALIAN CINEMA
    • BOOKS & RESEARCH

Electronic Books on all Topics

UW Libraries Catalog - lists E-books!
Search Tip: combine keywords for your topic with "electronic resource"
See results of this sample search: rome and art and electronic resource

Perseus Digital Library
Provides texts, images, maps, and more from and about ancient Rome.

NetLibrary E-Books UW restricted
Search to find ebooks on a variety of topics.

Google Book Search
Books on all topics. You can also find 19th century travel guides (with maps). For example, search: rome baedeker

Early English Books Online (EEBO) UW restricted
Digital editions of books published in English between 1473 and 1700.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (1701-1800) UW restricted
History, fine arts, geography, literature, religion are among the topics covered in these e-books.

Early American Imprints (1600-1800) UW restricted
Digital editions of books published in America between 1600 and 1800.

ACLS Humanities E-Book UW restricted
Full text of over 1500 titles. Follow the links to see titles found using subject browse on the topics "Rome -- Social life and customs" | "Rome -- Commerce -- History" | "Travelers -- Europe -- History" | "Rome -- Politics and government" |

Art & Architecture/Urban Planning

Reference Works

Oxford Art Online UW restricted
Jump start your exploration of this aspect of your city with an overview providing names, dates, events, theories, and bibliographies that will list key books & articles.

Arts & Humanities Through the Ages UW restricted
"Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music, and religion from a specific period, each volume in this five-volume set helps students and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other, as well as to history and culture." Eras covered include: Baroque & Enlightenment 1600-1800; Renaissance Europe 1300-1600; Medieval Europe 814-1450; Ancient Greece & Rome 1200 BCE - 476 CE; Ancient Egypt 2675-332 BCE.

Scholarly Articles

Art Abstracts UW restricted
This database offers abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications - subjects covered include Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals UW restricted
Indexes worldwide periodicals on architecture, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation.

Additional resources listed on the subject pages for Art and Architecture/Urban Planning and Archaeology

Cinema Studies

Scholarly Articles

Film Literature Index
Articles in trade/popular magazines ,e.g. Variety and The New Yorker, mixed in with scholarly journals, e.g. Film Comment and American Cinematographer. Note that this covers literature published 1976-2001.

MLA International Bibliography UW restricted
Articles, dissertations, & chapters on film/cinema in addition to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.

Additional resources listed on the Cinema Studies Subject Page.

Classics

Reference Works

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), provided by the Perseus Digital Library

Ashby, Thomas. 1928. A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome.

Listing of texts about Rome (and Greece) - art, sport, politics, commerce, etc. Provided by the Perseus Digital Library

Scholarly Articles

L'Annee Philologique UW restricted
Major bibliography for classical studies

Images, Maps, E-Books

Perseus Digital Library
Electronic editions of works in Latin & Greek (and in translation!). Images, maps, secondary sources and much more!

Additional resources listed on the Classics Subject Page.

Geography

Scholarly Articles

GeoBase UW restricted
Articles in scholarly journals about human geography, physical geography, international development studies, environmental studies, and oceanography.

Web of Science UW restricted
Multidisciplinary. Search by author, keywords, or by cited reference.

Additional resources listed on the Geography Subject Page.

History

Scholarly Articles

L'Annee Philologique UW restricted
Classics and ancient history

International Medieval Bibliography UW restricted
Medieval European history

Historical Abstracts UW restricted
World history from 1450 to present - excluding North America.

Additional resources, along with suggestions for locating primary sources, provided by the History Subject Page.

Music

Reference Works

Grove Music Online UW restricted
Jump start your exploration of this aspect of your city with an o verview providing names, dates, events and bibliographies that will list key books & articles.

Scholarly Articles

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature UW restricted
Find journal articles, books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, festchriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings and videos, reviews, etc.

Music Index Online UW restricted
Articles from over 640 international music periodicals.

Additional resources linked to the Music Subject Page and to the Music Library website.

Rome The Eternal City

Image Databases & Websites

Perseus Digital Library
Provides images of ancient Roman art, architecture, and more.

Finding and Using Digital Images
This page brings together the many UW image resources. Some can be used by anyone, others are UW restricted

Google Image Search

Maps

Neighborhoods of Rome (simplfied map)
Old Rome Major Sections (simplified map)
The official MetroRoma Lines Map that also provides timetables and other helpful info for getting around the city.

Be@Rome is a GoogleMaps mashup that features hotels/hostels but if you want to turn off that feature you can still explore the GoogleMap of Rome with links to pictures and info about various sites of interest (and Metro stations!). A Google search will bring up millions of online travel guides that provide neighborhood descriptions, for example Frommer's or Avventure Bellissime. Scroll past all the adds on this page to find links to maps of Popular Rome Districts.

InfoRoma
Interactive map of Rome highlighting hundreds of cultural sites.

Le Plan de Rome
"...a large plaster model of nearly 70 m2 which represents ancient Rome in the times of the emperor Constantine (IVth C. A.D.). Classified in the Inventory of Historical Monuments, it is the work of Norman architect Paul Bigot (1870-1942), winner of the Grand Prix of Rome and professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Bequeathed to the Université de Caen and exhibited today in a central gallery at the Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines, this relief plan is the origin of a pluridisciplinary project for a virtual 3D model reconstructed in computer-generated images."

1748 Nolli map of Rome
Digital and interactive. "The 1748 Nolli map of Rome, regarded by scholars and cartographers as one of the most important historical documents of the city, serves to geo-reference a vast body of information to better understand the Eternal City and its key role in shaping Western Civilization. The Nolli Map Web Site introduces students to Rome and the structure of its urban form; it illustrates the evolution of the city over time; and it reveals diverse factors that determined its development."

Rome Plans & Views
from the Ryhiner Collection, University Library Berne Switzerland.

Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome
A cartographic history of nearly 2800 years of water infrastructure and urban development in Rome.

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
A private collector, David Rumsey has digitized and made his collection available online at no cost to the public.

Library of Congress Map Collection 1544-2000
Digital selections from this collection of more than 5 million maps

Perry-Castaneda Map Library - Italy Maps
UTexas-Austin has digitized modern and historic maps that are in the public domain so can be freely reproduced (but you still need to cite them correctly!).

State Archive of Rome - Imago II Project
Digital photos, maps, etc from this important collection.

Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project
Digital effort to reconstruct the massive Severan Marble Plan of Rome carved 203-211 CE

Real Time Rome
"The project aggregated data from cell phones (obtained using Telecom Italia's innovative Lochness platform), buses and taxis in Rome to better understand urban dynamics in real time."

Citation Style Guides for Maps

Reference Tools -- Citation & Writing Guides - see section on citing Maps and Geospatial Data

Neighborhoods & Enclaves of Rome

Neighborhoods of Rome (simplfied map)
Old Rome Major Sections (simplified map)
InfoRoma - Interactive map of Rome highlighting hundreds of cultural sites.

Rome - Virtual Jewish History Tour
The Jewish community in Rome is known to be the oldest Jewish community in Europe and also one the oldest continuous Jewish settlements in the world, dating back to 161 BCE. This site provides an overview of Jewish experience in Rome and links to significant tourist sites.

Institutional Links
Comune di Roma, Municipio Roma I - XX (includes maps!), Provincia di Roma, Regione Lazio, Stato del Vaticano,

Statistics

ISTAT.IT
The official source of population data for Italy - this page links to data on where foreigners reside in Italy (and is in Italian! Try copy/pasting chunks of text into AltaVista's Babelfish translation service to get a rough idea of meaning)

Centro di Ricerca su Roma - CISR dell'Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Research institute which provides links to maps, data, and research studies. Selections of this site are provided in English translation.

Roma Statistica
See especially the link to Dati along the left-hand menu.

Travel Narratives of Rome - Pre-20th Century - selected digital editions

Acton, William. 1691. A new journal of Italy, containing what is most remarkable of the antiquities of Rome, Savoy, and Naples...

Schottus, Franciscus. 1660. Italy in its original glory, ruine, and revival, being an exact survey of the whole geography and history of that famous country, with the adjacent islands of Sicily and Malta, etc. and what ever is remarkable in Rome (the mistress of the world) and all those towns and territories mentioned in ancient and modern authors.

Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, At Home & Abroad, or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe. 1856 edition edited after her death by Arthur B. Fuller, her brother. Margaret Fuller went to Europe in 1846 as a correspondant for the New York Tribune and remained in Italy through the revolution of 1849.

Hare, Augustus J. C. 1875. Days near Rome.

To search for additional ebooks about Roman history, culture, etc. search one or more of the e-book databases listed at the top of this page.

Travel Guides

Historical Travel Guides
Under Italy see guides published in 1839 and 1869 (Baedeker) which include small maps. See also section of guides for Europe.

Google Book Search
You can find 19th & 20th century travel guides (with maps). For example, search these keywords:

• rome baedeker
• italy travel
• italy guide