Dear Readers,

I would like to invite you to an upcoming presentation

When: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2 pm

What: “History in the Digital Age: Medieval Chronicler Giovanni Villani Meets the Internet”

Who: Rala Diakite, Matt Sneider and Vika Zafrin

Where: Fitchburg State College, 160 Pearl St. Fitchburg MA / Miller Oval (in Miller Hall)

This talk will provide a quick overview of recent developments in the way historical sources are being presented for use by researchers and students via the internet. This as a preface to a guided tour of the Virtual Humanities Lab, and particularly of the segment dedicated to Giovanni Villani’s Cronica, a fourteenth-century Florentine chronicle. We will explain our encoding strategies and present our work thus far, as well as demonstrating some of the available and soon-to-be available tools on the site. We will conclude with a discussion of the pedagogical potential of our digitized Villani text.

Hope to see you there!

For further information, please contact Rala Diakite at 978-665-4706 or rdiakite@fsc.edu