Description

Musisque Deoque. A digital archive of Latin poetry is a singular database of Latin poetry, supported by a critical and exegetical electronic apparatus. At present, main collections of classical texts have been transferred onto digital device while resources, mostly online, allow quick lexical searches. In most cases, however, search engine inquiry only provides results key-words inside a fix and ‘authoritarian’ text. Musisque Deoque set out to overcome this limitation, making it possible to find not only the forms chosen and reported by the reference edition, but also the variants presented in the apparatus and selected under the responsibility of a 'digital editor'. Functionality is enriched by specialised query functions, such as the metrical analyses offered by Pedecerto and the search for verbal and rhythmic supraverbal co-occurrences. In 2023, a new function was added: it allows integrated searching within the Musisque Deoque and Poeti d’Italia corpora of texts, making it possible to investigate, in new way, the legacy of ancient poetry within Latin versification produced in Italy between the 14th and 16th centuries.