Manzoni Online

Manzoni Online is a research project born from the collaboration between universities, libraries and research institutions with the aim of documenting, studying and promoting Alessandro Manzoni’s documentary heritage. Funded through the Italian PRIN research programme and developed in collaboration with the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense and the Centro Nazionale di Studi Manzoniani, the project brings together the writer’s works, manuscripts, correspondence and personal library within a single digital platform.

The portal provides scholarly cataloguing of works and documents, accompanied, whenever possible, by digital reproductions, and offers consultation tools designed for both researchers and a wider audience. Each work is linked to its surviving manuscripts and textual witnesses, making it possible to reconstruct the history of the texts and trace their development over time, while the bibliography is continuously updated with the latest research.

Within the project, the University of Pavia’s research unit, based at the Cremona campus, is responsible for identifying and documenting dispersed materials, as well as investigating the editorial history and philological establishment of Manzoni’s works, thereby contributing to the reconstruction of their textual tradition.

By digitising and connecting materials preserved across different institutions, Manzoni Online helps preserve and promote Manzoni’s documentary heritage, serving as a key reference for research on one of the most important figures in Italian literature.