La tarda antichità latina tra i codici e il web

This essay examines the electronic instruments that are available for research on the texts of late Latin antiquity, with a focus on the project Digital Library of Late Antique Latin Texts (digilibLT), developed by the University of Eastern Piedmont and the University of Turin and dedicated to the prose works of profane content dated between the II and VI century a. D. The essay serves as a methodological introduction to the following collection of interventions, which were read in a congress on the initial results of the digilibLT project held in Vercelli in November 2011. The collection, nevertheless, was deeply revised so to underline how the new technologies can be integrated with old, consolidated methods of research based on recognized paper repertoires of texts.