Pico’s 900 Theses

A digital edition of the 900 Theses of Pico de la Mirandola (“Conclusiones Nongentae publicae disputandae”, Rome 1486), published in Latin and English, with an annotation feature available to scholars who are part of the Pico Project.

The project, which is part of Massimo Riva’s research on publishing, using and teaching with digital text from Medieval and Renaissance Italy, is also an experiment in collaborative scholarship for critical electronic editions of texts in general. The Conclusiones is the second text undertaken by the Progetto Pico (Pico Project), after the Oratio which was published as a collaborative edition on the web. That edition, using the technologies available at the time, was delivered as a series of HTML pages.

STG marked up the Latin text of the Conclusiones in XML, according to the TEI guidelines, and added a provision for a group of scholars to annotate it. Originally this system was developed to work on the Tomcat framework using JSP. However, we have since converted it to run with PHP and MySQL for the annotations, and XML and XSLT for the textual components.

Recently, as part of the continuing development of the Riva’s Virtual Humanities Lab, all the Pico texts will be integrated into the new VHL scholarly editions interface.

Pico’s 900 Theses is a project of Italian Studies

Contributors to this project include Paul Caton (STG), Carole Mah
(STG), Giovanna Roz (STG), Massimo Riva (Primary Investigator)