Digital Humanities and Intersectionality

De/constructing the Italian Literary tradition

in the Digital Humanities Scholarship

University of Leuven, 15 -17 September

Dr Tiziana Mancinelli - CCeH (Cologne Centre of eHumanities)

                                                                          University of Cologne

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MODELLING

By modelling I mean the heuristic process of conctructing and manipulating models; a "model" I take to be either a rapresentation of something for purpose of study,  or a design for realizing something new (McCarty, 2005, p. 24)

He then adds that models 'are by nature simplified and therefore fictional or idealized representations' of real objects.

The process of modelling is also an epistemological process: by modelling an object, an activity we come to know this object, and this activity.

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What about current project?

• No Digital Scholarly Edition for any other subjectivity that is not a well-known author -
• DSE catalogue:

• by Greta Franzini
• Patrick Sahle
• Cinzia Pusceddu
• Paolo Monella

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• Biblioteca Italiana

Academic project

www.bibliotecadigitale.it

• 909 Authors

• 11 - women writers

Gender Annotation Ontology Project

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Semantic web and Linked data

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creates by

CREATION

creates

        work

(RDF, FRBR)

Reads

Reading

Author

rapresentation

HAS

Purposes

Persona

BODY

identification

Interpretation

erotism

medicalisation

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Postdoc-Programm “Network & Exchange – NetEx

- will be dedicated to Literary tradition in Italy and in Germany taking into consideration a variety of texts, authors and debates during the 15th and 16th Centuries. From print to digital publications, women writers have always found a marginalised role in the canon.

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Postdoc-Programm “Network & Exchange – NetEx

The analysis of 15 th and 16 th century women writers can shed light on the question whether or not women did have a Renaissance during the Renaissance. Women writers during the renaissance offer some counterpoint to literature written by men, in particular an ability to impart a sense of individuality and authenticity to their voices in spite of the fact that their work incarnate much of the conventional renaissance thought. The project we will present is regarding a systematize and further explore the contribution of women writers in the German and Italian 15th and 16th century, in order to see if it is possible to recognise features of a cross-cultural gender specific Renaissance or whether these features are rather culturally oriented.

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Veronica Franco

Our word “courtesan” derives (via French) from the Italian cortigiana, but the term was originally used (with various modifiers) to mean virtually any sex worker; those who met the criteria which we now associate with the word were called cortigiana onesta (honest courtesan). 

16th-century Venice was renowned for the number and quality of her courtesans, and the most famous of these was Veronica Franco, who is remembered not only for her profession but also for her poetry and letters.

• Così dolce e gustevole divento,

• quando mi trovo con persona in letto,

• da cui amata e gradita mi sento,

• che quel mio piacer vince ogni diletto,

• sì che quel, che strettissimo parea,

• nodo de l'altrui amor divien più stretto

As sweet and taste I become/when I am in bed with a person/loved and apprecated I feel/that my pleasure gets over any treats/[...]

From "Rime" 1575

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An example:

Example:

link -

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
         xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
         xmlns:raop="http://bakulf.github.io/raop/">
<raop:Body>
     <raop:comparison rdf:nodeID="nuvole"/>
     <raop:interpretation>Così dolce e gustevole divento,
quando mi trovo con persona in letto,
da cui amata e gradita mi sento,
   che quel mio piacer vince ogni diletto,
sÌ che quel, che strettissimo parea,
nodo de l'altrui amor divien più stretto</raop:interpretation>
     <raop:subject rdf:nodeID="erotism/>
  <raop:sentence>
    <raop:Group>
      <raop:items>
        <rdf:Seq>
          <rdf:li><raop:Word rdf:nodeID="amata" raop:value="amore" /></rdf:li>
          <rdf:li><raop:Word raop:value="gustevole " /></rdf:li>
          <rdf:li><raop:Word raop:value="gradita" /></rdf:li>
          <rdf:li><raop:Word raop:value="letto" /></rdf:li>
          <rdf:li><raop:Word raop:value="strettissimo" /></rdf:li>
          <rdf:li><raop:Word rdf:nodeID="piacer" raop:value="piacere" /></rdf:li>
        </rdf:Seq>
      </raop:items>
    </raop:Group>
  </raop:sentence> 
</raop:Body>

</rdf:RDF>

An ontology for digital rhetoric analysis.

• How can we represent/visualise those concepts?

• How can those concepts and/or representations be visible?

From modelling to the publications

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An ontology for digital rhetoric analysis.

Analysis and modelling are rightly considered to be at the hearth of Digital Humanities; and they are fundamental components of scholarly editing, whether digital or not. As a matter of fact modelling is at the core of any epistemological activity relative to a particular object or a set of oblects in order to be analysed and understood. (Pierazzo, 2015)

http://bakulf.github.io/raop/

Conclusions

Many thanks for your attention!

E-mail address:

tiziana.mancinelli@uni-koln.de

Twitter: @TizMancinelli