Tra filologia, paleografia e storia: nuove strade per le edizioni digitali di fonti antiche e medievali

Abstract

In an age when digital versions of books seem capable of complementing or even replacing paper volumes, philologists, historians, and palaeographers are wondering what form digital critical editions should take and to what extent they should reproduce the layout of traditional critical editions, with or without apparatus. To address this issue, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco has developed the Edition Visualization Technology (EVT 3) software. This volume, the result of the PRIN 2022 Rendering Texts and Images. Digital Scholarly Editions with Edition Visualization Technology (ReTI) research project, presents the results of different types of digital editions of ancient and medieval texts using EVT 3. Namely, a Greek and a Latin text handed down by numerous witnesses; a medieval chronicle preserved in a richly illuminated manuscript; the correspondence between the Marquises of Mantua and the ambassador to the Roman Curia. The solutions adopted and the results achieved are illustrated by the editors and discussed by leading scholars with expertise in the problems of critical and digital editions.