Decameron Web

Abstract

Decameron Web (DW) offers an online digital edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron both in Italian and English language. It is a comprehensive information portal about the Decameron and the cultural, historical context of the time in which it was written. Thanks to its high usability and consolidated sustainability, DW has reached sufficient maturity and consistency to be a valuable resource for research. Nonetheless, the technological methods adopted for the encoding, exploration, and visualisation of the text should undergo major improvements in order to consider DW as a state-of-the-art scholarly digital edition (SDE). The author describes and evaluates DW from a philological and methodological point of view. After a general introduction, the author goes into more detail on the subject and content of the project, focusing on the aims and methods pursued during its realization. Particular attention is devoted to the quality of the presentation of the edition. The description of the edition’s main features is supported by some personal suggestions for improvement.

Keywords

• 14th century
• critical digitization
• digital text
• interface
• literature
• educational experience