In the last few years, the headlong development of electronic data carriers and electronic data transmission has occasioned changes in historical lexicography that mark the onset of a new epoch. The volume contains articles by authors specializing in Italian Studies, French Studies, and German Studies on the establishment and use of databases on the internet and on CD-ROM, editorial principles and problems in the preparation of textual base material, and case studies on the significance of the new media for ongoing projects in the historical lexicography of Italian.