Now we can search through Google for all types Italian literary texts as Google Inc including books by Galileo. Google said on Wednesday that it will scan ancient Italian literary texts ranging from Galileo Galilei to herbal medicine manuals as part of the Internet company's first publishing partnership with a national government. Google and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage have reached an agreement to digitize up to a million out-of-copyright works at the national libraries in Florence and Rome.
Google is not only to work closely together with the Italian libraries, but also with the Italian ministry of culture – the first time that the search engine has had a government department a such a close partner on such a project. Google called it a "groundbreaking deal".
The deal involves digitizing up to one million books held in the National Libraries in Rome and Florence. Google has similar arrangements for out-of-copyright books with Oxford University, Madrid's Complutense University and the Bavarian state museum.
"The libraries will select the works to be digitised from their collections, which include a wealth of rare historical books, including scientific works, literature from the period of the founding of Italy and the works of Italy's most famous poets and writers," says Google's strategic partner development manager, Gino Mattiuzzo, in a blogpost announcing the deal.
"We envision a future in which people will be able to search and access the world's books anywhere, anytime. After all, Antonio Beccadelli and Anastasius Germonius – like Shakespeare and Cervantes – are part of our human cultural history."
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