Development of a database and annotated digital editions of Renaissance comedies representing Roma, Ottomans, and Moors

The research will be carried out within the framework of the FIS3 StOIRC project, which focuses on the analysis of representations of Roma, Ottomans, and “Moors” in Italian Renaissance comedy (c. 1500–1650) and in adaptations of theatrical texts produced in various languages of Western Europe. The main activities will include:Co-designing a database aimed at identifying the theatrical texts included in the corpus and classifying bibliographic and textual information relevant to the objectives of the project.Entering and standardising data (e.g. bibliographic records, transcriptions of texts, and XML-TEI encoding) within the database.Producing annotated digital editions of texts related to the project.