Editing Giorgio Bassani’s ‘marginalia’: critical paths and methods

Abstract

Notes written by an author in the margins of his books give the opportunity to reconstruct his profile and the history of his works. Nevertheless, in making the critical edition of notes we have to face important difficulties, which digital philology can solve. The issue is discussed by analysing the edition of Giorgio Bassani’s notes, that is double: the printed edition is accompanied by the digital one, of which we present the prototype, that reproduces marginalia marked by Bassani in the book La scuola dell’uomo by Guido Calogero (1939).