Dante in Translation - Open Yale Courses.
Free online course from Yale University, including video lectures, audio and text files. No registration is required but, no credit is given. This course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of the Divine Comedy and selected minor works. An analysis of Dante's autobiography establishes the poetic and political circumstances of the Comedy's composition.

Dartmouth Dante Project.
A searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.

Decameron Web.
Information on the literary, historical and cultural context of Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron.

Don Quixote.
Searchable full text in English and Spanish. Includes images and a brief biography of Cervantes.

Umberto Eco.
An Italian writer of fiction, essays, academic texts, and children's books. His works include The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. This site contains his biography, interviews, summaries and reviews of all of his works, quotations, criticisms, photographs, and more.