Per Dante. Il VD e i corpora dell'italiano antico

The Vocabolario Dantesco (VD) www.vocabolariodantesco.it, created by Accademia della Crusca and Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI-CNR), proposes to gather the lexicon contained in Dante's vulgar works starting from Commedia of which it has already published over 1000 entries. Paola Manni, director of the VD for Accademia della Crusca, describes its inspiring reasons and methodological criteria, focusing on the new solutions required for the lessical analysis of a single - and singular - author as Dante. Rossella Mosti, editorial coordinator of the Tesoro della lingua italiana delle Origini (TLIO) and member of the directive Committee of the VD, enters in the synergetic relationship between the two lexicographic works. In this way she demonstrates how the corpora and sottocorpora of ancient Italian, already the foundation of the TLIO, are utilised and interact in the environment of a new initiative that finally frames Dante's words in their historical context and underlines his extraordinary creativity.