On the importance of studying and preserving Latin poetic literature

For the past few decades, digital technology has emerged as an important innovative tool in the study and preservation of the many centuries-old heritage of Latin literature. This has brought many advantages to academics and has held a certain weight in the disciplinary statutes of Philology. Today I will begin by offering a summary of the current situation and by describing Musisque Deoque (from now on: MQDQ, a tool developed by us at Venice’s Ca’ Foscari University, ). In the second part of my presentation, I will present some of the results obtained by us in using the word search machine