Paradigmi di filologia digitale e testi italiani antichi

The use of IT in philology is often presented as the advent of a new paradigm, although in many cases it merely exacerbates certain trends already present in pre-digital philology, while creating a number of procedural constraints that raise a serious cost-benefit problem. Moreover, digital philology is still in a chaotic phase of development, where the multiplication of projects and applications is inversely proportional to their life expectancy. The article proposes an approach to digital philology that would be more functional in meeting the needs of philology and at the same time would offer a system model in which philologists can share data and metadata. For medieval Italian texts, this approach is facilitated by the existence of the Corpus OVI, a potential development base for the creation of a library of digital editions.