Enciclopedia della Letteratura Garzanti
Spanning from Homer to Dan Brown, this is the most comprehensive encyclopaedia of the literature of every period and all countries, and an up-to-date tool to discover worldwide authors and works from the beginning to the present day. You will find every information about poets and novelists, movements and currents - from baroque to futurism - genres from science-fiction to thriller, together with rethorical figures, basical metrics, the summary of 600 masterpieces (from Dante's Comedy to Anna Karenina, from Hamlet to Moby Dick), and the winners of the most famous literary awards, including the Nobel prize.
Databank:
• more tham 10.000 entries written by specialists
• places and dates of birth for each figure
• dating of works
• special pages with thematical widenings
• 600 summaries of literary masterpieces
• the Nobel prize and the most important literary awards, with their winners
• a circuit of 2500 crossreferences between entries
Search software: [version: 18.1.gzlet]
• Direct search of the headword index
• Approximate search of headwords activated when no exact match is found
• Advanced search by field:
- Headwords
- Entire text
• Use of wild-card characters and logical operators
• Instant search of every word within an entry
• An Internet connection is needed to access the external documents
