Lorenzo Da Ponte's Libretti — TEI Editions

TEI P5 digital editions of three drammi per musica by Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838), encoded as part of the Da Ponte Libretti digital scholarly edition. This repository is a standalone, citable dataset: the encoded texts plus the project's TEI encoding model.

Contents

Libretto	Year	Siglum	Witness (shelfmark)	Encoder	File
Cinna	1798	LO98	London 1798, E. Jackson — London, British Library, Gb-Lbl 907.k.5.(1)	Ilaria Scarponi	tei/cinna_1798.xml
Il Ricco d'un giorno	1784	VI84	Vienna 1784, Kurzbeck — Bologna, Museo Int. e Biblioteca della Musica, Lo.02886	Alessandro Malavasi	tei/ricco-dun-giorno_1784.xml
Il Talismano	1788	VI88	Vienna 1788, Imperiale Stamperia de' Sordi e Muti — Vienna, ÖNB, 32542-A	Marta Pacchin	tei/talismano_1788.xml

Encoding

Encoded in TEI P5. The encoding model is in schema/: libretto.odd (ODD specification) and libretto.sch (Schematron rules).

License

All content is released under CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International). Please attribute the editors when reusing.

How to cite

This dataset is archived on Zenodo; see CITATION.cff for full metadata. Cite the version you consulted for reproducibility, and the concept DOI (all versions) in the bibliography:

• Concept DOI (all versions): 10.5281/zenodo.21082557
• This version (v0.1.0): 10.5281/zenodo.21082558

Reference

Malavasi, A., Pacchin, M., & Scarponi, I. (2026). Lorenzo Da Ponte's Libretti — TEI Editions (Cinna, Il Ricco d'un giorno, Il Talismano) (Version v0.1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21082558

BibTeX

@dataset{daponte_libretti_tei_2026,
  author    = {Malavasi, Alessandro and Pacchin, Marta and Scarponi, Ilaria},
  title     = {{Lorenzo Da Ponte's Libretti --- TEI Editions (Cinna, Il Ricco d'un giorno, Il Talismano)}},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  version   = {v0.1.0},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.21082558},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21082558}
}

Part of a larger edition

These libretti are part of the Da Ponte Libretti digital scholarly edition: https://daponte.ficlit.unibo.it.

Updating

The TEI and schema are verbatim snapshots of the main da_ponte project corpus (the source of truth). To refresh them before a release:

./update-tei.sh            # reads from ../da_ponte by default
DA_PONTE_SRC=/path/to/da_ponte ./update-tei.sh   # or point it explicitly