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 About us
It's finally here! The UTET Group's virtual forum for all the internet
culture lovers: www.piazzadante.it.
All those surfers of the web who want more than speed and superficiality
in their search for knowledge and information will be richly rewarded
by the more than two million entries on this site.
PiazzaDante, with its services and regular features, its on line encyclopaedias
and dictionaries, offers something that was missing in Italy - an easily
accessible and lively cultural portal.
PiazzaDante is a Utet Group project which aims to make the world of culture
usable in ways that combine vast publishing experience with state-of-the-art
technology. You go to PiazzaDante to learn; you return for pleasure. There's
art and technology, geography and literature, science and history, even
sport, fashion, music, free time interests, events and shows.
Here is a summary of the services and special features available.
For encyclopaedia lovers and those who don't want to appear unprepared:
Linkopedia, a synthesis of the evolution of encyclopaedic knowledge
from the printed page to the web. Linkopedia constitutes the concrete
application of a radically updated encyclopaedia which, by using an intelligent
search engine to look up a single entry, takes the user to a comprehensive
and well-organised system of links and an enormous number of theme-links
to sites reviewed by the PiazzaDante editorial team.
For linguists and all those with doubts concerning language: the linguistica
section with access to on line dictionaries of Italian (200,000 entries)
and English. Then there is the fascinating Teledizionario with
entries taken from Salvatore Battaglia's Grande Dizionario della Lingua
Italiana.
For lovers of classical culture, students and teachers: the Classici
online: approx. 245 selected texts from UTET's series of classics, including
works of philosophy, and Greek and Latin literature.
For those looking for information, but above all …. documentation: the
Scavi in PiazzaDante: current affairs selected and analysed with
a vast series of links to constantly updated contents on the PiazzaDante
encyclopaedia database.
Cultura in pagina: this is a review of the cultural pages and
features of the principal daily newspapers. Particular attention has been
paid to live culture and specifically Italian issues. News and in-depth
cultural analysis are guaranteed by PiazzaDante's editorial team and each
item contains links to the wide-ranging and authoritative contents of
the UTET Group.
The Calendario eventi: a selection of news concerning exhibitions,
conferences, shows and cultural events in Italy. t
The Libri in rassegna: a comprehensive review of the Italian publishing
market's new editions. t
The Parola del giorno: each day the real meaning of words which
are widely misused and seldom understood is revealed. t
The Giochi di piazza: word games, general knowledge quizzes, mystery
personalities all with the aim of having fun with culture. t
The Club dei linkopedisti: by becoming a member of this club you
can review the sites you consider the most interesting and vote for the
PiazzaDante sites. This really makes Linkopedia interactive and will help
it to grow thanks to the contribution from its "internauts".
The Discussioni in piazza: on line discussion and debate of the
authors included in UTET's series, as well as other important names from
Italian culture.
The PiazzaDante Bookstore
A living piece of Italy’s culture, with an extra service. PiazzaDante
offers you a free exclusively personalised service, guaranteed by UTET:
QVI (When I Want).
The PiazzaDante Bookstore contains a vast selection of the UTET cultural
catalogue (more than 550 titles including encyclopaedias, dictionaries,
classics, atlases, and much more), an extract from the UTET Libreria catalogue
(including ClupGuide and Isedi), the entire Garzanti Linguistica catalogue
(dictionaries and CD-Roms), and Garzanti Grandi Opere catalogue (reference
books, dictionaries and encyclopedias).
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