Language resources and useful links for Italian

Our translators' pick of useful sites for Italian terminology, including public-service sites for terms used in context.

National websites

Italian institutional sites

• President of the Italian Republic
• Italian Parliament
• House of representatives — lower house of parliament
• Senate — upper house of parliament
• Government and Ministries
• Constitutional Court
• Regions
• Municipalities
• Bank of Italy
• Civil protection
• Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)
• National Authority for the Protection of Personal Data
• National Health Institute (Istituto Superiore di Sanità)
• National Institute of Statistics (Istat)
• National Organisation for Civil Aviation (ENAC)
• National Organisation for Standardization (UNI)
• National Research Council
• Regulatory Authority for Communications (AGCOM)
• Regulatory Authority for Competition and the Market
• Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas

Other links from Italy

• Newspapers
• Press releases (ANSA)

Libraries

• National library

Style and grammar guides, language campaigns

Style

• Network of excellence for the Italian language (REI)
• How to write clearly — European Commission booklet (all EU languages) [March 2010]
• Legislative drafting manual — by the Interregional Legislative Monitoring Centre
• Guide to writing clear administrative Italian — Padua University
• Administrative writing manual — Italian Revenue Agency
• Guide to the drafting of legislative texts — Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers
• Legislative drafting manual — Italian regions, 2007
• Drafting official Italian texts — instructions from Swiss Federal Chancellory

Grammar

• Italian language advice (Accademia della Crusca)
• Italian language encyclopaedia (Treccani)

Online dictionaries, term banks and glossaries

Dictionaries & encyclopedias

Monolingual dictionaries

• Garzanti
• Sabatini  Coletti
• Treccani
• Neologisms (Accademia della Crusca)

Term banks & glossaries

• Agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food (AGROVOC)
• Collection of dictionaries and other language tools (La Sitoteca)
• FishBase — global information system on fish
• Statistics — multilingual glossary by the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
• Term-minator