This website presents over 300 Dutch-language books that describe Italy. From novels and travelogues to travel guides, all sides of Italy can be discovered in this book selection. This collection, available online and in open access, is based on a research project carried out at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome in the years 2017 and 2018. For more information on the project click here.
On this website you can also find a number of blogs inspired by various titles from the book collection. The blogs can be found here. For a complete overview of the blogs and the books in question, click here.
Curious about the titles that are part of this project? In the search bar below you can search for books in our database by author, title or year.