Italian Studies   Tags: history, italian_literature, italian_studies, italy, language_teaching, politics  

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These are books in Italian Studies recently received in the Harold B. Lee Library.  (Please excuse the errors you may find in digitally generated diacritics...):

Italian language

Italian literature

History of Italy

European politics and law

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