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Deutsche Dantedeutung 1942: vom Rande her gesehen.
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An author: Dante. A text: the Rechtsmetaphysik der göttlichen Kommödie by Hugo Friedrich (Frankfurt/M., Klostermann 1942). A copy of this well-known and controversial book is preserved at the library of the Institute for Italian Studies at the University of Basel (ITA IL Dante 20.50). It offers a precious opportunity to reflect upon the meaning of this work both in the context of German-language criticism on Dante, and of historical and intellectual research into Medieval culture. The item at Basel contains reading notes − underlinings and short marginalia − by its owner and reader, Giuseppe Zamboni, who was professor of Italian literature at Basel, and whose precious library partly contributed to the University library. It stimulates doubts and reservations on an interpretation of the Commedia as a ‘correction’ of modernity, and as refraining from an emotionally involved reading of the text for the sake of severe ‘metaphysical’ rigour. The analysis leads to the discovery and a brief but significant sample of different and vigorously conflicting conceptions of the Middle Ages.

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«No. IV. Stellet vor den Berg bey Stenesund. Es gehört zum §. 7. eben dieses Kapitels, und ist am Rande bemerkt». This quotation is part of the survey over the copper engravings in Erik Pontoppidans Versuch einer natürlichen Geschichte Norwegens (1753). Starting from this quotation I am going to look into the relations between the main text and the marginal notes and further paratextual elements of the 7th paragraph (chapter II, part I), which deals with the geological formation of stone at Stenesund.

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Francesca Antonioli

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Ilaria Bonincontro

Il paratesto nella digitalizzazione di edizioni tradizionali

The concept of paratext was theorized by Genette in the 80's. It is a set of items that surround the authorial text and is usually associated with books. The paratext introduces the text and may influences how a text is interpreted; paratext is often subject of analysis as a source for the cultural contextes. In the digital era the paratext acquires more functions, it guides the user in text reading. The question is: does the traditional paratext, component of the analogic, material text, keep its role if it is digitalized? Is it the digitalization enough to allow the computer to manage paratext and to distinguish between paratext and main text? The idea is that both paratext and main text must me encoded in order to become data, that the computer may analysed. The encoding is a new type of paratext, or better, is the metatext that guides the computer in text management.

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