2024/01/01 by Luca Giovannini, Giorgia Gallucci · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Digital Humanities and Scholarship #Italian Fascism and Post-war Society #Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.5334/johd.250
openalex publication_date 2024/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The Allacci Digitale dataset contains extended bibliographical information about more than 6000 early modern Italian plays. It is based upon a digitised copy of Leone Allacci’s Drammaturgia (2nd. ed. 1755), one of the most important historical catalogues for theatre in Italian. After performing OCR on its scanned version and manually correcting the outputs, we extracted relevant bibliographic fields through regex-based scripts, organised them in a tabular format, and cleaned it up with the software OpenRefine. The resulting database can be browsed through a dedicated website and used for quantitative investigations of Italian literary history.