Dante Alighieri, Commedia, Edited by Prue Shaw. A digital edition on DVD-Rom jointly published by SDE-SISMEL: Birmingham, 2010. Individual Licence: ISBN 1-904628-15-X; ISBN 978-88-8450-389-3
Institutional Licence: ISBN 1-904628-09-5; 978-88-8450-391-6 |
'L’introduzione è filologicamente esemplare e affascinante come un giallo. Questo DVD è rivoluzionario, magnifico.'
Lino Pertile, Harvard University
'The scrupulous and lucid analysis is overwhelmingly persuasive. It will revolutionize everyone’s approach to the textual problems.'
Robert Durling, University of California
‘… uno strumento di analisi prezioso, anzi insostituibile … queste nuove frontiere della filologia ci offrono, con la massima comodità, una enorme
quantità di dati di estremo interesse per lo sviluppo dei nostri studi.’ Paolo Trovato, Università di Ferrara
‘... un’altra magnifica impresa ...’
Giorgio Inglese, Università La Sapienza |
This DVD-ROM contains Prue Shaw’s transcripts, collations and analyses of seven key manuscripts of Dante’s Commedia, the most important single work in Italian literature and one of the masterpieces of world literature. The transcripts are accompanied by digital images of every page of six of the manuscripts, all newly made in high-resolution full colour, and by the full text of the editions of Giorgio Petrocchi and Federico Sanguineti. A full word-by-word collation shows all variants at every word, viewable in either the original manuscript spelling or in a standardised form. Variant search and variant map features offer new ways of exploring the relations between the versions. In a closely argued introduction the editor analyses the relations among the surviving texts, and examines the view of the tradition recently set out by Sanguineti. Throughout, the publication interface provides access to every word in every version, to the variants on every word, and to tools and commentaries permitting exploration of the different versions. The beautiful images allow the reader to share the experience of reading the poem as it would have been read by Dante’s near contemporaries.
To read an excerpt from the introduction, click here.
To read the section of the introduction on the DNA of the Commedia, click here.
To read an excerpt from the introduction, click here.
To read the section of the introduction on the DNA of the Commedia, click here.