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Ariosto’s  Orlando  Furioso  and  its Influence  in  the  Age  of  the

Printing  Press

Martyna  Urbaniak CTL, Scuola Normale Superiore www.ctl.sns.it

New  Projects  in  Digital  Art  History Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

November 21, 2014

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Investigating  Furioso’s   typographic  packaging

Origins

Evolution

Success

Impact  on  the  reception  dynamics

Third edition 1532 Following editions

Orlando  Furioso

First version 1516

Looking at Words through Images Introduction 2/3

Angelica innamorata Vincenzo Brusantino Venezia, Marcolini 1553

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Orlando Furioso

Furioso’s  sequels and  spin-­‐‑offs

Furioso’s  illustrated  editions

Medieval  romance  tradition

Vernacular  translations  of  ancient  epic  poems

16th-­‐‑century  epic  production

Orlando Furioso Ludovico Ariosto Venezia, Valgrisi 1556

Orlando innamorato Matteo M. Boiardo Venezia, Scoto 1545

Trasformationi Lodovico Dolce Venezia, Giolito 1553

Gerusalemme liberata Torquato Tasso Genova, Bartoli 1590

Objectives

Furioso’s  printing  format   contributed  to  its  acknowledgment  as  a  

literary  model

and  was  systematically  adopted  by  the  printing  press  

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1500 1600

Orlando Furioso’s editions

Other Works’ editions

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1553!1536!

Edition: Zoppino

Edition: Valvassori

1568!

Edition: Varisco

1542!

Edition: Giolito

1556!

Edition: Valgrisi

1584!

Edition: De Franceschi

Trasformationi, Ludovico Dolce

Edition: Giolito

1581!

Tredici canti del Floridoro, Moderata Fonte

Edition: Rampazetto

1590!

Gerusalemme liberata,

Torquato Tasso Edition: Bartoli

1604!

Gerusalemme liberata,

Torquato Tasso Edition: Pavoni

1617!

Gerusalemme liberata,

Torquato Tasso Edition: Pavoni

1545!

Orlando Innamorato, Matteo Maria Boiardo

Edition: Scoto

Morgante, Luigi Pulci

Edition: Scoto

Challenge

Mark  up  texts

Map  images

Connect  images  to  other  images,  texts  and  paratexts

Designing  a  digital  archive

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Semantically  describe  their  mutual  influences

Retrospective

Founded  in  2001  by  Lina  Bolzoni

A  spin-­‐‑off  of  CRIBECU  Center  established  by Paola  Barocchi  in  1970s

Word-­‐‑image  relationships

Trans-­‐‑disciplinary  approach

CTL  Research  Center

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Digital  archives

2001

CTL’s Foundation

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CTL’s  digital  archives

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Figurative  and  literary  sources  

Research  data  and  metadata

Full  text  and  cross  search

Present  CTL'ʹs  scientific  acquisitions

Enhance  users’  further  inquiries  

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Retrospective

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2001 2006 2006

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Niccolò d’Aristotile detto Zoppino Venezia, 1536

Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari

Venezia, 1542

Giovanni Andrea Valvassori

Venezia, 1553

The  first  three  16th-­‐‑century  editions    endowed  with  the  

original  figurative  corpora

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Metadata (Provenance,  publisher...)

Research  interpretations (Scenes,  actions,  characters…)

Text

Illustration

Allegories

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Metadata (Provenance,  author…)

Research  interpretations

(Episodes,  meanings,  

characters…)

Illustrations divided into

Scenes

Scenes divided into

Actions Illustration

Scene

Action

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XML/TEI  markup  language

Technology

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Technology  issues

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Images  could  not  be  tagged

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Technology  issues

?!

Linking  portions  of  images  was  impossible

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Technology  issues The  XML  files  were  overcharged  with  tags

Anton  Francesco  Doni  2008

2008 2010 Now

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Retrospective

2001 2006 2008

Anton Francesco Doni

Anton  Francesco  Doni  Multimedia  Archive  of  Texts  and  Sources    

I marmi I mondi La moral filosofia La zucca Attavanta

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Retrospective Anton Francesco Doni 1/2

Image  Mapper  Tool

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Retrospective Anton Francesco Doni 2/2

Orlando  Furioso  2.0  2010

Now

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Retrospective

2001 2008 2006 2010 2010

Orlando Furioso 2.0

The  Valgrisi  edition  was  added  to  the  archive

Vincenzo Valgrisi Venezia, 1556

Niccolò d’Aristotile detto Zoppino Venezia, 1536

Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari

Venezia, 1542

Giovanni Andrea Valvassori

Venezia, 1553

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2006

Orlando Furioso 1.0

Retrospective Orlando Furioso 2.0 1/3

Mapping  images  with  Flexip

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Retrospective Orlando Furioso 2.0 2/3

Orlando  Furioso  2.0  Frontend

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Looking  at  Words  through  Images  

2012

Today

2001 2008

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2010 Now Now

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Backend  -­‐‑  Reuse  information

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Backend  -­‐‑  Scenes  and  Actions

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Backend  -­‐‑  Paratextual  entities

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Backend  -­‐‑  Critical  notes

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XML/TEI  textual  markup:  the  code  is  not  overcharged  anymore!

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Flexip  -­‐‑  Backend  user  interface

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-­‐‑  Semantic  annotation  of  the  text

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-­‐‑  Semantic  annotation  of  the  text

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-­‐‑  Semantic  annotation  of  the  text

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through Images

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-­‐‑  Semantic  annotation  of  the  text

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-­‐‑  Semantic  annotation  of  the  text

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Korbo  -­‐‑  Vocabularies

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Our  work  has  changed

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Clarity  and  coherence

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More  precise  IR  and  cross  search

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