Agenda

Digital Dante Days

A Two-Day International Symposium on the Past, Present and Future of Digital Scholarship on Dante’s Work 

15 and 16 November 2021, 2.30-6.30 p.m. CET, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Auditorium Santa Margherita

Day 1: Monday 15

2.30-4.00

Opening: Franz Fischer, Tiziana Mancinelli and Antonio Montefusco

Gennaro Ferrante (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

Current Results and Further Developments of the Dante Portal at Federico II University

Elena Spadini (Université de Lausanne) and Sonia Tempestini (Università della Svizzera italiana)

Boccaccio lettore e scrittore della Commedia. Variantistica digitale

Simone Marchesi (Princeton University)

The IMAP-PDP Project: Toward a Visual Annotation of the Divine Comedy

4.15-6.30

Special Session on the Second Edition of Prue Shaw’s Digital Edition of Dante’s Commedia

Prue Shaw (University College London), Lino Leonardi (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan) and Emiliano Degl’Innocenti (CNR)

On 3 November SISMEL and Inkless Editions will be publishing a second edition of Prue Shaw’s groundbreaking 2010 Digital Edition of the Commedia. The second edition presents all the material of the first edition (with additions and updates) in a completely new interface, designed for ease of use and long-term sustainability. Following the agreement of all co-operating institutions, the edition will be free to all on the internet. In this session members of the editorial team which created the second edition will explain the purposes and methodology of the new edition.

First Conclusions: Michelangelo Zaccarello (Università di Pisa)

Day 2: Tuesday 16

2.30-4.00

Gabriella Albanese (Università di Pisa) and Paolo Pontari (Università di Pisa)

Il Vocabolario Dantesco Latino (VDL): lessicografia e cultura digitale per lo studio delle opere latine di Dante

Carlo Meghini (ISTI-CNR), Daniele Metilli (ISTI-CNR) and Gaia Tomazzoli (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Per una biblioteca digitale dell’opera di Dante: dall’esperienza di HDN alla creazione di LiDa

Tiago Tresoldi (Uppsala Universitet)

Bayesian Phylogenetic Methods and the Tradition of the Divine Comedy

4.30-6.30

Francesco Mambrini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano) and Rachele Sprugnoli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano)

UDante. L’opera latina di Dante nella LiLa Knowledge Base

Final Lecture: Barbara Bordalejo (University of Lethbridge)

Textual Evolution and the Construction of the Edited Text

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Organizing Committee: Franz Fischer, Agnese Macchiarelli, Tiziana Mancinelli, Antonio Montefusco, Elena Alessandra Vivan

Discussants: Eugenio Burgio, Cristiano Lorenzi, Tiziano Zanato