Prue Shaw
Main research interests: Early Italian literature, especially Dante; the use of computer technology in the handling and analysis of large medieval manuscript traditions; nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Italian literature and literary theory.
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Wow!
Robert Hollander, Princeton
L’introduzione è filologicamente esemplare e affascinante come un giallo. Questo DVD è rivoluzionario, magnifico.
Lino Pertile, Harvard
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, Ferrara
‘… un’altra magnifica impresa: la Digital edition della Commedia…’
Giorgio Inglese, La Sapienza, Rome
Papers by Prue Shaw
Sophisticated software allows easy magnification and movement around the images. A drop-down menu at the right of the header allows the user to choose a particular manuscript; cantica-canto-line choices allow easy movement around the text. A metrical analysis of each line can be accessed from the collation. Specialized search tools enable new ways of exploring the relations between the versions: the unique VBase feature offers complex searches for variants by their distribution in the manuscripts.
A comprehensive introduction by the editor explains the methodology of the transcriptions, and gives detailed transcription notes, as well as descriptions, for each manuscript. It analyses the interrelationships between the manuscripts, testing the editorial hypothesis of manuscript relations which underlies the Sanguineti edition, for whom these seven manuscripts were both ‘necessary and sufficient’ to produce a scholarly critical edition of the poem. As well as providing all the primary evidence for scholars wishing to explore the Sanguineti edition and its relationship to the Petrocchi edition, and a detailed analysis of that evidence, the web site will be a valuable teaching tool for palaeographers, codicologists and textual critics.
A new Preface (2021) explains how this second edition of the web site stands in relation to the first edition (2010). The first edition remains online at http://www.sd-editions.com/AnaAdditional/commediaonline/home.html as a historical record of a ground-breaking early digital edition of a medieval text.
Wow!
Robert Hollander, Princeton
L’introduzione è filologicamente esemplare e affascinante come un giallo. Questo DVD è rivoluzionario, magnifico.
Lino Pertile, Harvard
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, Ferrara
‘… un’altra magnifica impresa: la Digital edition della Commedia…’
Giorgio Inglese, La Sapienza, Rome
Sophisticated software allows easy magnification and movement around the images. A drop-down menu at the right of the header allows the user to choose a particular manuscript; cantica-canto-line choices allow easy movement around the text. A metrical analysis of each line can be accessed from the collation. Specialized search tools enable new ways of exploring the relations between the versions: the unique VBase feature offers complex searches for variants by their distribution in the manuscripts.
A comprehensive introduction by the editor explains the methodology of the transcriptions, and gives detailed transcription notes, as well as descriptions, for each manuscript. It analyses the interrelationships between the manuscripts, testing the editorial hypothesis of manuscript relations which underlies the Sanguineti edition, for whom these seven manuscripts were both ‘necessary and sufficient’ to produce a scholarly critical edition of the poem. As well as providing all the primary evidence for scholars wishing to explore the Sanguineti edition and its relationship to the Petrocchi edition, and a detailed analysis of that evidence, the web site will be a valuable teaching tool for palaeographers, codicologists and textual critics.
A new Preface (2021) explains how this second edition of the web site stands in relation to the first edition (2010). The first edition remains online at http://www.sd-editions.com/AnaAdditional/commediaonline/home.html as a historical record of a ground-breaking early digital edition of a medieval text.