The project
ALI – Autografi dei letterati italiani is a web portal for the study of the autographs of Italian writers from the Origins until the end of the sixteenth century. The portal is the result of the work of literary historians, philologists, historians of language, paleographers, librarians and archivists.
It is the digital version of Autografi dei letterati italiani, a project directed by Matteo Motolese and Emilio Russo, and published since 2009 in a series of volumes by the Centro Pio Rajna:
- Le Origini e Trecento I, a cura di Giuseppina Brunetti, Maurizio Fiorilla, Marco Petoletti, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2013.
- Le Origini e Trecento II, a cura di Giuseppina Brunetti, Maurizio Fiorilla, Marco Petoletti, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2013 (in preparazione).
- Il Quattrocento I, a cura di Francesco Bausi, Maurizio Campanelli, Sebastiano Gentile, James Hankins, consulenza paleografica di Teresa De Robertis, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2013.
- Il Quattrocento II, a cura di Francesco Bausi, Maurizio Campanelli, Stefano Carrai, Teresa De Robertis, Sebastiano Gentile, James Hankins, Roma, Salerno Editrice (in preparazione).
- Il Cinquecento I, a cura di Matteo Motolese, Paolo Procaccioli e Emilio Russo, consulenza paleografica di Antonio Ciaralli, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2009 e 2013.
- Il Cinquecento II, a cura di Matteo Motolese, Paolo Procaccioli e Emilio Russo, consulenza paleografica di Antonio Ciaralli, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2009 e 2013.
- Il Cinquecento III, a cura di Matteo Motolese, Paolo Procaccioli e Emilio Russo, consulenza paleografica di Antonio Ciaralli, Roma, Salerno Editrice (in preparazione).
The data of ALI come from the research undertaken for the entries in the paper volumes by a number of authors. Without their work, the project would have never been possible.
ALI was funded by FIRB 2010 – Futuro in ricerca, destinato ai progetti di studiosi Under-40, led by Sapienza Università di Roma (Matteo Motolese, Principal Investigator; Emilio Russo, Maurizio Campanelli), with the Università degli Studi RomaTre (Local Coordinator Maurizio Fiorilla) and the Università degli Studi del Sacro Cuore, Milano (Local Coordinator Marco Petoletti). We are grateful to the Direzione Generale Biblioteche e Istituti Culturali of the MiBACT for the reproduction campaign in the Italian libraries with the collaboration of ICCU and Internet Culturale.
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ALI was designed and developed by using the framework open source Muruca (www.muruca.org), a modular system for creating, managing and publishing digital libraries.
ALI allows to easily browse texts, images and editorial contents, and employs the web standards commonly used both in the community of Digital Humanities (XML-TEI) and in the research community (RDF).
The Muruca forms ALI uses include: the backend application, by which you can insert, manage and publish texts, images and data in the digital library; a system for the management of the editorial contents related to the project; a module for indexing and advanced research in the digital library; the frontend of ALI, through which you can access all contents of the site.
