Sound and Metre in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Narrative Verse
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Grant Holder:
Professor David Robey
An on-line database containing an exact, detailed and systematic representation of the sound and metre of the major narrative poems of the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance. The database provides a firm evidence base for the analysis, comparison and interpretation of specific structures, and combinations of structures, across a substantial corpus of related poetic texts. It also aims to develop and test the capacity of computer-based processes to serve the purposes of literary scholarship.
| Project start date: 1999-03 | Project end date: 2008-12 |
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| Methods used | Category |
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| Sound analysis | Data analysis |
| Stylometrics | Data analysis |
| Statistical analysis | Data analysis |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Text
Software tools used:
Microsoft Access, SPITBOL
Source material used:
Critical editions of Dante, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, ed. G. Petrocchi, 4 vols. (Milan: Mondadori, 1966-7); Francesco Petrarca, Trionfi in id., Rime, Trionfi e poesie latine, ed. F. Neri et al. (Milan-Naples: Ricciardi, 1951); Giovanni Boccaccio, Amorosa visione (Testo A), ed. V. Branca in Tutte le opere di Giovanni Boccaccio, III (Milan: Mondadori, 1974); L. Pulci, Morgante, ed. R. Ramat (Milan: Rizzoli, 1961); M. M. Boiardo, Orlando innamorato, ed. A. Zottoli (Milan: Mondadori, 1944); L. Ariosto, Orlando furioso, ed. C. Segre (Milan: Mondadori, 1964); T. Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, ed. L. Caretti (Bari: Laterza, 1967), and Gerusalemme conquistata, ed. L. Bonfigli (Bari: Laterza, 1934)
Digital resource created:
Dataset of records containing information about sound and metrical structures in the poems in question, one record for each line of each poem. The whole database contains 162,125 records. The information covers: basic text data; rhyme and rhyme words; phonemic patterns, including alliteration and assonance; accentual rhythm, metre, and word accents. The database can be searched for particular structures or combinations of structures, or by browsing the texts of the poems. The data was generated automatically, with a substantial element of manual intervention, through a suite of SPITBPL programs.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
Microsoft SQL Database linked to a FrontPage interface.
Publications:
Robey, David, Annalisa Cipollone, and Paola Nasti. 'Rhythm and Metre in Renaissance Narrative Poetry', The Italianist, 20 (2000), 21-43
Robey, David. Sound and Structure in the ‘Divine Comedy’ (Oxford University Press, 2000)
‘Rhythm and metre from the Liberata to the Conquistata’, The Italianist, XXVI, 2 (2006), 247-73
Robey, David. Sound and Structure in the ‘Divine Comedy’ (Oxford University Press, 2000)
‘Rhythm and metre from the Liberata to the Conquistata’, The Italianist, XXVI, 2 (2006), 247-73
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Professor David Robey |
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| Other staff: | Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | David Robey |
| Title | Sound and Metre in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Narrative Verse |
| Record created | 2005-11-07 |
| Record updated | 2011-10-26 11:43 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2044 |
| Citation of record | David Robey: Sound and Metre in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Narrative Verse. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2044> created: 2005-11-07, last updated 2011-10-26 11:43 |