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Musisque Deoque: Un Archivio Digitale di Poesia Latina/A Digital Archive of Latin Poetry. N.p.: Progetto Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale, 2007. http: //www. MQDQ.it.
The professional Latinist has been served by good electronic archives since the dawn of the electronic age. The researcher can freely use the many texts uploaded to the world wide web by adepts of Latin literature (e.g., on www. thelatinlibrary.com), and also access to paid services that provide authoritative editions of many Latin texts with convenient search options. The CD-ROMs of the Packard Humanities Institute and the Library of Latin Texts website (on http://www.brepolis.net) are just two outstanding examples. Recently, a new branch has been added to the tree of online archives for Latinists: Musisque Deoque: A Digital Archive of Latin Poetry MQDQ}. This new service offers a welcome new approach to the presentation of searchable Latin texts, but in execution far too little attention is paid to elucidating the scholarly and technical methods used for the archive.
MQDQ (as it wiU be referred to in this review) is an ongoing collaborative project between Latinists from several Italian universities and is available in two languages, Italian and English (although some of the translations are rather poor, e.g., "contatti" is translated as "links" instead of "contact us"). The website, which is accessible free of charge, offers a very complete archive of Latin poetry from before the third century B.C. until the seventh century A.D.3...