The edition of rime disperse attributed to Francesco
Petrarca (RDP) and the collection of artistic documents in ItalArt together
form a diptych of textual data that Salvatore Arcidiacono has expertly
experimented with, creating two distinct forms of digital editions tailored to
the unique characteristics of each case.
The project Le 'rime disperse' di Francesco
Petrarca: l’altra faccia del Canzoniere" (RDP), led by Roberto Leporatti
at the University of Geneva, seeks to present a renewed and more precise
portrayal of the dissemination of Petrarch's vernacular poetry during the
centuries when the Canzoniere established itself as a model of the lyric genre
in Italy and Europe. Through a comprehensive census of manuscript and printed
sources, rigorously classified, the project aims to establish a new textual
representation of the poems attributed to the poet, not transmitted through his
autographs and ideographs. The digital edition is complemented by the RDP Corpus in GattoWeb, entirely lemmatized at OVI by Aurelio Malandrino.
Alongside
Leporatti, the project director, the team includes Dario Pecoraro and Tommaso
Salvatore, and has engaged additional contributors: Maria Clotilde Camboni, Raffaele Cesaro, Anaïs Ducoli, e inoltre Benedetta Aldinucci, Simona Biancalana, Irene Ceccherini, Paolo Eleuteri, Laura Nuvoloni, Barbara Vanin, Giulia Zava.
The project L’italiano delle arti tra Medioevo e Rinascimento (ItalArt) is the
outcome of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, granted to
Alessandro Aresti between 2018 and 2020. Initially based at the University of
Liège in collaboration with the EpistolArt research unit, and subsequently
developed at the University of Cagliari, ItalArt aims to showcase vernacular
documents related to the figurative and plastic arts between the 14th and 16th
centuries. In its initial phase, the project produced a new edition of a
substantial portion (717 documents) of the collection originally published by
Gaetano Milanesi under the title Documenti per la storia dell’arte senese (Siena, Onorato Porri, 1854-1856). Accompanied by a website providing access (sala di lettura) to
document images along with transcriptions, the ItalArt Corpus is also
accessible in GattoWeb.