As we look more closely at the Villani encoding, we are looking to clean up and simplify as much as possible. Some series of attributes are naturally infinite, such as the names of persons or names of places. On the other hand, we have one set of attributes “natura”, under type=”forza”, under the element “theme”. They are as follows:

Giustizia, forca, Condanna, Multa confinamento, Prigione, Guerra, Guerra esilio, ribellione, attacco, Assalto, Confiscazione, Mutilazione, Incendio, Assassinio, presa citta, Guerra presa citta, Congiuro, Arresto tortura, Assissinio mutilamento, Assassinio, Mutilamento cannabalismo, Esilio, Guerra presacastello, Assassinio, Blocco, Guerra, Assedio, Ostaggio, Assedio, Ribellione Guerra, Condanna esilio, Scomunica, Tortura forca, Mutilamento, Confinamento, Furto, Tortura multa, ribellione, Guerra cattura, Presacitta, Presacastello, Giustizia, Confina, Forca cattura, forca condanna

Would it be helpful or not helpful to combine these into groupings? Groupings like punizione civile, punizione ecclesiastico, guerra, for example. Would that add unneccesary complexity? Or would it be best to leave these forms of force in their original wordings as we did with the person: “name” attributes, and give up trying to classify them.

I imagine a sort of grim catalogue of violence, and index of evils that could be drawn from this encoding. Villani has his spicy side too. Any suggestions welcome.