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The article focuses on the main innovations and lines of action by ICCU on the authority headings in the SBN Opac, which open new perspectives on data integration. This work gives an account of the qualitative review activities carried out by the Working Group for the management and maintenance of the Authority File of SBN, the updates of SBN's authority headings rules among with their recent opening the Opac, the creation of redirects for merged headings, the implementation of LOD and API, and the innovations brought by the Alphabetica portal. These novelties will be followed closely by further advances that will be characterizing Index 3. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article starts from some reflections on the Italian cultural heritage and, in particular, on its heterogeneity, complexity and territorial dispersion. In order to focus on the state of manuscripts' cataloguing in Italy, the author concentrates on two equally important aspects: the historical coordinates and the quantitative data (the latter to be crossed with the qualitative evaluation). Manus Online, the national software for cataloguing manuscripts managed by the Manuscripts Area of Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche (Iccu), is analysed both from a numerical point of view and with regard to the work protocol and special projects. The study concludes with an extensive review of the main innovations that characterize the new version of the database, which has been entirely renewed in its management functions and user interface. Manus Online 2.0 was presented on 16 December 2021 at the Sala Giovanni Spadolini of the Collegio Romano during the launch of the Alphabetica portal, created by Iccu as part of the new digital ecosystem of national bibliographic services . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The absence of shared authority files for cataloging manuscripts reflects an intrinsic complexity: a lack of homogeneity in the identification of all authorized access points. This article focuses on the analysis of authorized access points (personal names, corporate body names, family names and geographical names) present in Manus online (MOL), a database containing catalogue descriptions and digital images of manuscripts, private papers and archives held by Italian public, private and ecclesiastical libraries. In particular, personal name authority records are taken into consideration from two points of view: a quantitative (also with the help of graphs) as well as a qualitative, structural, and perspective approach. Workflow protocol, theoretical approach and practical aspects are summarized. From a strictly operational point of view, about name authority records, the XML schema elaborated by the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium is compared with the UNIMARC/Authorities, the universal format for authorities. This comparison allows us to rethink authority and reference records in terms of international standards, also in manuscripts cataloguing. In conclusion, a look at authority files and records of digital library and international digitization projects of manuscripts worldwide: E-codices, the virtual manuscript library of Switzerland, and Biblissima: Bibliotheca bibliothecarum novissima, an observatory for Medieval and Renaissance written cultural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on subject indexing in the National Library Service (Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale -- SBN), specifically analyzing the historical premises and the diachronic developments that marked its evolution. In particular, it traces the origin and growth of the archive of subjects and classes in the SBN Index (and the collective SBN catalogue) from the founding years of the SBN cooperative bibliographic network up to the most recent transformations coming from the "Evolution of the SBN Index" project. This paper also takes into consideration the observations of the ICCU-BNCF joint working group which worked on the application of the Nuovo soggettario in SBN from 2009 up to 2010 and analyzes the project for implementation of the archive of subjects and classes of the SBN Index (2016-2017). Some considerations are proposed concerning the subject links to the Work record, thus suggesting the apical grouping by subject, which is also based on the new conceptual model IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay will examine the intertextual connections between Dante's works (Rime, Vita Nova, and Commedia) and the Romance and Italian vernacular tradition, in order to investigate how later lyric material relates to Eden. In particular, moving from an analysis of courtly love in the Troubadours and the Roman of the Rose through medieval Italian literature (above all, Guido Cavalcanti), the authors propose a new interpretation of the enigmatic figure of Matelda, guardian of the Earthly Paradise in Purgatorio. Much has been written about the firstly nameless 'bella donna', the vast majority of which concentrates upon her identity as a historical figure or as a symbolic construct. Focusing on her narrative function, instead of trying to connect Matelda with extra-textual factors, this analysis will recognize in the 'donna soletta' a literary stratagem used to construct the author's lyric Self. Matelda's appearance in the poem is modelled on similar 'other' ladies from vernacular love poetry, but she overtakes them, with the obvious exception of Beatrice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]