A CD-ROM database offering a chronological and thematic survey of Italian literature from the medieval and early modern periods. It features primary source works by 106 noted authors including Boccaccio, Dante, Petrarch, Macchiavelli, and Cellini. For more information, take a look at NYU's online bibliography of the contents of LIZ . In total, it contains some 18,000 pertinent documents detailing letters of delegates to Congress. This CD-ROM contains 22 volumes out of an eventual 25 volume set.
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The Library of the Future includes the writings of Louisa May Alcott, Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Theodore Dreiser, Washington Irving, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Paine, Edgar Allen Poe, Adam Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft in a collection that presents 800 works from the Western Tradition. Literary Eras uses the same engine as the Major Authors series to archive full texts written in the Spanish Caribbean before 1900. Also includes other types of material such as biographies, essays, fiction, histories, illustrations, journals, letters, theatrical works, and travel accounts. Users can search the database by title, author, date of publication, or may search for words or phrases in the texts. For more information, see the description of the program by the publisher or consult the user's guide available at the Electronic Text Center.