A digital edition of the Commedia of Dante Alighieri, part two

但丁·阿利吉耶里喜剧的数字版，第二部分

• 批准号: AH/E00797X/1
• 负责人: Peter Robinson
• 金额: $ 12.7万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE00797X%2F1
• 关键词: digital; edition; Commedia; Dante; Alighieri

The Commedia of Dante Alighieri is the single most important work of Italian literature and one of the key works of world culture. However, there are considerable uncertainties as to exactly what Dante wrote. There is no authorial copy extant, and no agreement as to which extant manuscript might be closest to Dante's original text. The two principal editions of the last half-century (Petrocchi 1965; Sanguineti 2001) present radically different views of the textual tradition.A better understanding of these issues must begin with the earliest history of the textual tradition in the form of the earliest surviving manuscripts. Seven manuscripts (in fact, six manuscripts and one early print edition including a full collation from a lost very early manuscript) were recently and controversially identified by Federico Sanguineti as 'necessary and sufficient' for an understanding of the early history of the text and for the production of a critical edition. This project will develop full electronic transcripts of the whole Commedia in these seven manuscripts (some 110,000 words in each). It will collate the seven manuscripts against each other and the two print editions, word by word, to create a full record of all agreements and disagreements, generating around one million pieces of information.All this information will then be analysed by a variety of computer means. Firstly, software originally devised by evolutionary biologists for the hypothesis of family groupings among related species will be used, to create genetic hypotheses about these seven manuscripts: which are related most closely to which? This software has been well-tested on other manuscript traditions and found to give useful results -- results which can confirm, enhance or modify the results achieved by traditional scholarly methods. Secondly, specialized database software (VBase) will be used to interrogate the distribution of variant readings: if there is evidence of a grouping within the seven, exactly what readings do the manuscripts of that group share which are not found among the other manuscripts? From our assessment of the readings, is their character such that they appear to have been introduced by a scribe -- or might they be the result of authorial revision?This analysis will lead to a fuller comprehension than ever before possible of the exact relations among these seven key manuscripts: until the advent of computer tools it was not possible to gather, manipulate and interrogate so much information. The results of this analysis will be presented in a full-scale digital edition as well as in talks and in printed articles. The electronic edition, to be published on DVD-ROM and on-line (including a free-to-all publication of the transcripts), will present all transcripts, collations and our analyses, together with the key tools used to make the analyses. Readers will be able to read the full text of the Commedia in any of the seven manuscripts (directly from the images or in the transcriptions); they will be able to see how the seven and the two editions differ at any word; they will be able to assess the weight behind any reading, and view our analyses and explanations of the variant readings, and use the tools included in the digital editon to check the analyses we offer to make their own analyses. They will also be able to view images of all pages of all manuscripts (subject to library agreement), to see the text as its earliest readers saw it.There are already substantial models for such an edition, in the form of Robinson's Miller's Tale on CD-ROM (published 2004) and Shaw's Monarchia (published 2006). This electronic edition will permit readers to see how the earliest texts of the Commedia relate to the latest scholarly versions of those texts. It will open a new generation of Commedia textual studies, characterized by access to, and understanding of, unprecedented detail concerning the transmission of Dante's poem.

但丁的《喜剧》是意大利文学史上最重要的作品，也是世界文化的核心作品之一。然而，有相当大的不确定性，究竟但丁写。没有作者的副本现存，并没有协议，以现存的手稿可能是最接近但丁的原始文本。近半个世纪以来的两个主要版本（Petrocchi 1965; Sanguineti 2001）对文本传统提出了截然不同的观点。要更好地理解这些问题，必须开始以现存最早的手稿形式的文本传统的最早历史。七份手稿（事实上，六份手稿和一份早期印刷版，包括一份丢失的早期手稿的完整校勘）最近被费德里科·桑吉内蒂（Federico Sanguineti）确定为理解文本早期历史和制作批判版本的“必要和足够”。该项目将在这七份手稿中开发整个Commedia的完整电子文本（每份约110，000字）。它将把七份手稿和两份印刷版逐字逐句地进行核对，以建立一个完整的记录，记录所有同意和反对意见，产生大约100万条信息，然后通过各种计算机手段对所有这些信息进行分析。首先，将使用进化生物学家最初为相关物种之间的家族分组假设而设计的软件，来创建关于这七份手稿的遗传假设：哪一份与哪一份关系最密切？该软件已经在其他手稿传统上进行了良好的测试，并发现提供了有用的结果-这些结果可以证实，增强或修改传统学术方法所获得的结果。第二，将使用专门的数据库软件（VBase）来询问不同读数的分布：如果有证据表明七个手稿中有一个分组，那么该组手稿中有哪些读数是在其他手稿中找不到的？从我们对这些阅读材料的评估来看，它们的性质是不是看起来像是由抄写员介绍的--或者它们可能是作者修改的结果？这种分析将导致比以往任何时候都更全面地理解这七个关键手稿之间的确切关系：直到计算机工具的出现，它是不可能收集，操纵和询问这么多的信息。这一分析的结果将在一个全面的数字版，以及在会谈和印刷文章。电子版将在DVD-ROM和网上出版（包括免费向所有人出版的记录稿），将提供所有记录稿、校对和我们的分析，以及用于进行分析的关键工具。读者将可以在七份手稿中的任何一份中阅读《Commedia》的全文（直接从图像或在transmittance）;他们将能够看到如何七个版本和两个版本不同，在任何一个字;他们将能够评估任何阅读背后的权重，并查看我们对不同读数的分析和解释，并使用数字编辑中包含的工具来检查我们提供的分析，以进行自己的分析。他们还可以查看所有手稿的所有页面的图像（须经图书馆同意），以查看最早的读者看到的文本。已经有这样一个版本的实质性模型，以罗宾逊的米勒的故事光盘（2004年出版）和肖的君主制（2006年出版）的形式。这一电子版将允许读者看到如何最早的文本Commedia涉及到这些文本的最新学术版本。它将开启新一代的喜剧文本研究，其特点是访问和理解，前所未有的细节有关但丁的诗的传输。