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The project Looking at Words through Images (Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and its Influence in the Age of the Printing Press) presented by Martyna Urbaniak (CTL, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) on 22nd November 2014 at CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. The aim of the project is to create a multimedia digital archive as a tool to investigate the origins, evolution, and fortune of Orlando Furioso’s editorial format and its powerful influence, in figurative and editorial terms, on reception dynamics in the age of printing. Powerpoint presentation by: Giulio Andreini (Net7, Pisa) Martyna Urbaniak (CTL, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
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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
Looking at Words through Images Introduction 1/3
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
Looking at Words through Images Introduction 3/3
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
Looking at Words through Images Objectives 1/2
1500 1600
Orlando Furioso’s editions
Other Works’ editions
Looking at Words through Images Objectives 2/2
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
Looking at Words through Images Challenge 1/1
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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CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images
2006
Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective CTL 1/2
Digital archives
2001
CTL’s Foundation
Retrospective CTL 2/2
CTL’s digital archives
2001 2008 2010 Now
CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images
2006
Orlando Furioso 1.0
Figurative and literary sources
Research data and metadata
Full text and cross search
Present CTL'ʹs scientific acquisitions
Enhance users’ further inquiries
Orlando Furioso 1.0 2006
Retrospective
2008 2010 Now
CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images Orlando Furioso 1.0
2001 2006 2006
Orlando Furioso 1.0
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
2001 2008 2010 Now
CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images
2006
Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective Orlando Furioso 1.0 1/7
Metadata (Provenance, publisher...)
Research interpretations (Scenes, actions, characters…)
Text
Illustration
Allegories
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CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images
2006
Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective Orlando Furioso 1.0 2/7
Metadata (Provenance, author…)
Research interpretations
(Episodes, meanings,
characters…)
Illustrations divided into
Scenes
Scenes divided into
Actions Illustration
Scene
Action
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CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images
2006
Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective Orlando Furioso 1.0 3/7
XML/TEI markup language
Technology
2001 2008 2010 Now
CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images
2006
Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective Orlando Furioso 1.0 4/7
Technology issues
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Images could not be tagged
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2001 2008 2010 Now
CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
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Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective Orlando Furioso 1.0 5/7
Technology issues
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Linking portions of images was impossible
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CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images
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Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective Orlando Furioso 1.0 6/7
2001 2008 2010 Now
CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images
2006
Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective Orlando Furioso 1.0 7/7
Technology issues The XML files were overcharged with tags
Anton Francesco Doni 2008
2008 2010 Now
CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images Orlando Furioso 1.0
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
2001 2008 2010 Now
CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images
2006
Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective Anton Francesco Doni 1/2
Image Mapper Tool
2001 2008 2010 Now
CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images
2006
Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective Anton Francesco Doni 2/2
Orlando Furioso 2.0 2010
Now
CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images Orlando Furioso 1.0
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
2001 2008 2010 Now
CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images
2006
Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective Orlando Furioso 2.0 1/3
Mapping images with Flexip
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CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
through Images
2006
Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective Orlando Furioso 2.0 2/3
Orlando Furioso 2.0 Frontend
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CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
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Orlando Furioso 1.0
Retrospective Orlando Furioso 2.0 3/3
Looking at Words through Images
2012
Today
2001 2008
CTL’s Foundation Anton Francesco Doni Orlando Furioso 2.0 Looking at Words
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2010 Now Now
Looking at Words through Images
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Today Looking at Words through Images 1/19
Backend -‐‑ Reuse information
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Orlando Furioso 1.0
Today Looking at Words through Images 2/19
Backend -‐‑ Scenes and Actions
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Today Looking at Words through Images 3/19
Backend -‐‑ Paratextual entities
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Today Looking at Words through Images 4/19
Backend -‐‑ Critical notes
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Today Looking at Words through Images 5/19
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Today Looking at Words through Images 6/19
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Today Looking at Words through Images 7/19
XML/TEI textual markup: the code is not overcharged anymore!
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Today Looking at Words through Images 8/19
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through Images
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Flexip -‐‑ Backend user interface
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Today Looking at Words through Images 10/19
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-‐‑ Semantic annotation of the text
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Today Looking at Words through Images 12/19
-‐‑ Semantic annotation of the text
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through Images
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Today Looking at Words through Images 13/19
-‐‑ Semantic annotation of the text
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through Images
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Orlando Furioso 1.0
Today Looking at Words through Images 14/19
-‐‑ Semantic annotation of the text
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through Images
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Today Looking at Words through Images 15/19
-‐‑ Semantic annotation of the text
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through Images
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Orlando Furioso 1.0
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Korbo -‐‑ Vocabularies
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Last few words
Easier and faster data insertion
Fewer errors
More complexity and precision
Not just frontend but structural and semantic representation of word-‐‑image relationships
Our work has changed
Looking at Words through Images Last few words 1/4
Usability
User friendliness
Clarity and coherence
Major accuracy of data
Users’ experience has changed
More precise IR and cross search
Looking at Words through Images Last few words 2/4
Looking at Words through Images Last few words 3/4
The future
Looking at Words through Images Last few words 4/4
The future Our data can be used by third-‐‑party archives and applications
Martyna Urbaniak Center for Data Processing of Text and Images in Literary Tradition (CTL) Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa www.ctl.sns.it Contact: [email protected]
Giulio Andreini IT Project Manager Net7, Pisa www.netseven.it Contact: [email protected]
