Informatica umanistica: appunti e riflessioni sullo stato dell'arte e nuove prospettive

The essay explores the different evolutionary phases of the admixture of fields belonging to each other seemingly distant disciplines such as Computer Science and the Humanities. By their commingling comes, already over forty, Humanities Computing that evolves over time with steps in the seventies and in 2004. It examines the major academic experiences suggesting an evolutionary breakdown of discipline and tracing the characteristics for each stage of them. It describes the research project for the PhD carried out by the writer.