Concordances and Internet resources

Essential tools for studying Dante include the concordances and rimari, or rhyme inventories. For the Commedia, there is the excellent Concordanza della Commedia di D. A., Turin, 1975 and the recent Rimario della Commedia di D. A. edited by A. Punzi (Rome, 2001), organized according to rhyme strings as well as listing rhyme words alphabetically. In addition, Dante’s works are widely available both online and on CD-ROM. A brief account is provided here only of the most scientifically-reliable editions. Dante’s complete works can be consulted online at the website of the Società Dantesca Italiana (www.danteonline.it) in both the original version and in translation (from Latin into Italian, with many works also translated from Latin and Italian into English); this website also provides an excellent and regularly-updated bibliography. The CD-ROM edited by P. Stoppelli and known as LIZ contains only Dante’s main works but enables the user to create concordances, co-occurrences, frequency statistics, indices and rimari. The most advanced product as regards lemmatization is M. Tavoni’s project, Opere di Dante lemmatizzate, which can be consulted at http://dante.di.unipi.it/ricerca/dante.html. Helpful information on metrical structures is available via the Archivio Metrico Italiano (www.maldura.unipd.it/ami/php/index.php), which contains other poetic texts in addition to Dante’s Commedia and Rime. There are several important digital resources relating to commentaries on the Commedia, such as the online database of the Dartmouth Dante Project initiated in 1982 by R. Hollander, and the more recent CD-ROM I commenti danteschi dei secoli XIV, XV e XVI, edited by P. Procaccioli, Rome, 1999. Over 500 descriptions of manuscripts containing commentaries or glosses on the Commedia dating from before 1482 can be consulted online at www.centropiorajna.it. The digital photographic reproduction of manuscript codices and imprints is not particularly well-developed, limited as it is to 33 codices (out of 827) of the Commedia, viewable at the abovementioned website www.danteonline.it, and to a few selected pages of the incunabula (early imprints) and sixteenth century editions of the Commedia, reproduced in colour at www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/index.html.