I canovacci della Commedia dell'Arte: una prospettiva di catalogazione

The Commedia dell'Arte made use of a so-called subject writing: the shows appeared staged in a "concentrated" way starting from synthesis writings, often final of previous setups. The dramaturgical archive of the history of the theater is therefore equipped with a rich corpus made up of "scenarios" or "diagnosis" and this immense heritage still escapes us today the possibility of counting on a platform that can guarantee consultation, comparison and a critical textual analysis. It is in the light of this aspect that the need to insert these arises materials within a study that presents them as they really are not (i.e. scriptures extended plays) thus preventing them from escaping a stricto sensu philological comparison. The object of this research is therefore the creation of an online platform in which to catalog i rare manuscripts from the heyday of the Commedia dell'Arte, on a range of subjects taken in examination from the works of Ludovico Zorzi and Annamaria Testaverde, taking into account the established dictates from the Central Institute of the Single Catalog and from the main digital archives present in the panorama of CD. The usability of the software, aimed at specialized and pertinent libraries but also at universities university students and individual scholars, is the basis of the project.