CoDA

The CoDA project (Commenti Danteschi Antichi) proposes the development of an integrated digital environment, freely searchable online, dedicated to the ancient exegesis of Dante’s Commedia. The project envisages the establishment of the first digital database of Dante’s commentaries in vernacular and Latin, datable by the end of the 15th century, which capitalizes on the one hand on the fundamental editorial season of the Censimento e Edizione Nazionale dei Commenti Danteschi, and on the other hand on the philological and IT experience of the CNR-Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, which with its tools, the Corpus OVI and TLIO, promotes research on ancient Italian in the context of the Digital Humanities. The project involves: 1) the elaboration of the Bibliography of Dante’s commentaries that can be consulted online using the PLUTO software; 2) the creation of the corpus and its integration into the OVI corpus; the lemmatization of the texts and the elaboration of the query system according to the parameters of the GATTO 3.3 and GattoWeb software already widely in use for all the OVI corpora; 4) the extension of the software to querying aimed at research of exegetical interest, related to the explanation of Dante’s dictation and the different contents of the commentaries. The purpose of the corpus is double: lexicographic and hermeneutic. The first goal concerns the study of the lexicon of the commentaries, which contributes to the enrichment of the linguistic profile of Early Italy and the picture of the relationship between Latin and vernacular in expository and argumentative writings. The second objective is to encourage comparative analysis of the commentaries with respect to exegetical perspectives on the poem and the broader cultural content that the texts return.