Filologia digitale del Medioevo italiano

Notwithstanding its main lines of enquiry and its approaches to textual culture are not always shared by the international mainstream of philological studies, Italian textual criticism is known for its methodological strength and the quality of its output. Publishing reliable critical texts based on a comprehensive knowledge of the textual transmission implies the adoption of a diachronic approach to the textual tradition, the reconstruction of the genealogy of the extant copies, and a thorough examination of each witness. This article aims to show how digital philology could match the needs of the Italian philological tradition, taking into account the Corpus OVI which is currently the largest online corpus of medieval texts.