Monumenti storici e artistici della città dell’Aquila e suoi contorni by Angelo Leosini (1848) as an online semantic digital corpus

Monumenti storici artistici della città di Aquila e suoi contorni colle notizie de’ pittori scultori architetti ed altri artefici che vi fiorirono (L’Aquila 1848), a book by Angelo Leosini, addresses the theme of the city’s identity through the description of its monuments, with the explicit purpose of tracing the history of L’Aquila’s art for the very first time. Starting from the digitisation and transcription of Leosini’s personal, densely annotated copy in the Biblioteca ‘Salvatore Tommasi’ in L’Aquila, the research project will be rendered in its layered complexity through the publication online of the author’s personal copy ––transcribed, annotated, and with hypertext links to bibliographical and iconographical information supported by advanced user-assisting techniques for searching semantic information.