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RIDE A Review Journal for Scholarly Digital Editions and Resources

Processing Dante’s Commedia: From Sanguineti’s Edition to Digital Tools

DOI: 10.18716/ride.a.3.2

Abstract

The Commedia project aims to investigate the manuscript transmission of the poem, using Sanguineti's previous edition and checking the validity of his stemma with computer methods. Full transcriptions of the seven selected witnesses are provided alongside the corresponding facsimiles. The end results of the collation and phylogenetic analysis differ from Sanguineti's edition and reshape the stemma. No new critical text is provided. The edition is easy to navigate and high quality editorial materials are available. A metrical markup enriches the text and the integrated VBase tool allows the user to retrieve variants in different witnesses and parts of the poem.

... the triplet genetic code. It would surely have delighted Dante, had he known it, that life itself is informed by a pattern of three-in-oneness, just as the poem he wrote and the metrical scheme he devised.

Shaw, Commedia, Introduction