http://www.crs4.it/~riccardo/Letteratura/Misc/Storia.html
The Italian language and its literatures are the focus of this WWW page. It lists brief historical summaries of writers such as Dante, Bocaccio, and Manzoni, to name a few. Also summarized are various dialects of Italy and their regions of origin. With no links within the site, this page is one long document with many short synopses which serve as fine introductions to many topics but lack detail on any one field. The links to related Italian language and literature Web pages include Dartmouth Department of Italian Language and Literature, Dante Project, and the Language Resource Center Holdings (Cassettes, Videos, Books) resources, plus many online dictionaries and databases. Located in Italy, this site requires patience because of its loading time.