Comments on: Search Engine http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/archives/2005/11/07/search-engine/ going in with a hunch Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:15:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Search Engine by: mike http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/archives/2005/11/07/search-engine/#comment-1909 Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:53:18 +0000 http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/archives/2005/11/07/search-engine/#comment-1909 I see from Massimo's post that my earlier one wasn't very clear. What I meant by being able to pull the text out of the commentary was that it would be interesting to pull Dante's text out of Boccaccio's commentary in the Esp. This would be possible (I think) if Dante's text were marked as such, since there's hardly a single word in all the commented cantos that doesn't appear in the Esp. To my knowledge, the only time B skips something it's just an accident. I agree wholeheartedly that we should keep intertext searching as one of our principal priorities. There's no doubt about that, especially since the VHL was born with this possibility in mind. Things that would be particularly interesting in this regard would be historical personages, quotations (esp. Biblical and philosophical), clear sources and even occasionally places. It would be great eventually to have a structure for all the VHL's texts that provides cross-searching (on the model, say, of searches across various giornate in the Dweb's old search functions). Regarding sources, for example, it would be quite remarkable to follow the use of someone like Valerius Maximus or Cicero across these texts. And, along these lines, wouldn't it be fantastic to add in a future grant (if there is one) something like Petrarca's Rerum Memorandorum? Or even Salutati's Epistles? The groundwork we lay here will serve us extremely well as we move forward. M I see from Massimo’s post that my earlier one wasn’t very clear. What I meant by being able to pull the text out of the commentary was that it would be interesting to pull Dante’s text out of Boccaccio’s commentary in the Esp. This would be possible (I think) if Dante’s text were marked as such, since there’s hardly a single word in all the commented cantos that doesn’t appear in the Esp. To my knowledge, the only time B skips something it’s just an accident.

I agree wholeheartedly that we should keep intertext searching as one of our principal priorities. There’s no doubt about that, especially since the VHL was born with this possibility in mind. Things that would be particularly interesting in this regard would be historical personages, quotations (esp. Biblical and philosophical), clear sources and even occasionally places. It would be great eventually to have a structure for all the VHL’s texts that provides cross-searching (on the model, say, of searches across various giornate in the Dweb’s old search functions). Regarding sources, for example, it would be quite remarkable to follow the use of someone like Valerius Maximus or Cicero across these texts.

And, along these lines, wouldn’t it be fantastic to add in a future grant (if there is one) something like Petrarca’s Rerum Memorandorum? Or even Salutati’s Epistles? The groundwork we lay here will serve us extremely well as we move forward.

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