MQDQ Galaxy
Latin poetry in a sustainable open-access collaborative digital archive

MQDQ Galaxy is dedicated to the development and long-term sustainability of the open-access digital archives “Musisque Deoque”, “Musa Medievalis” and “Poeti d’Italia in lingua latina”, including “Pedecerto”, the tool for the automatic analysis of dactylic verse, along with all related functionalities. These archives offer access to the complete corpus of ancient Latin poetry (with critical apparatuses) as well as a substantial collection of Medieval Latin Poetry and Latin verses composed by authors active in Italy from the era of pre-Humanism through the Renaissance.
Established through four PRIN grants (1999, 2001, 2005, and 2007) and one FIRB grant (2008), the MQDQ archives have become indispensable tools for scholars and readers engaged with both ancient and modern Latin poetic texts. Like all digital humanities projects, however, they require continuous funding, maintenance, and scholarly commitment to ensure their growth and sustainability – whether in terms of critical-textual content, research functionalities, or technological infrastructure.

Therefore, a new sustainable model has been designed by Ca’ Foscari team in collaboration with the 'A. Zampolli Institute of Computational Linguistics' (ILC-CNR) in Pisa. All processes are now managed by a back-end infrastructure (www.mqdqgalaxy.it), which dialogues with the Github platform.

A new web-based platform (Wiki-MQDQ) allows easy data entry and the possibility of thus extending the audience of contributors: if you would like to propose adding a text or an apparatus to our archives, please contact us at mqdq-galaxy@unive.it.

MQDQ: latest additions (2023-)

• Carmina Latina epigraphica [ITA], ed. A. Prontera
• (2024) Ausonius, Opera, ed. A. Prontera; Palladius, De insitione, edd. F. Boldrer, A. Prontera; Carmen navale, ed. G. Cattaneo; Columella, De re rustica 10, edd. F. Boldrer, A. Prontera; Corippus, Panegyricus in laudem Anastasii, ed. G. Cattaneo; Germanicus, Aratea, ed. F. Feraco; Valerius Flaccus (ll. 1-6), ed. C. Laudani
• (ed. L. Mondin 2025) Audax, epistula ad Augustinum (=Aug. epist. 260), uersus inserti; Augustinus Hipponensis, carmen De pulchritudine mundi ap. ps.Aug. sent. 16; Augustinus Hipponensis, uersus ap. ps.Aug. sent. 2b; Sisebutus, epistolae Wisigothicae 8, uersus inserti; Sulpicius Bituricensis, epistula ad Desiderium Cadurcensem, uersus inserti; Iulianus Toletanus, insultatio in tyrannidem Galliae; Iulianus Toletanus, epistula ad Modoenum. 
• New apparatuses: Claudianus, de consulatu Stilichonis (Ornella Fuoco, 2026); Claudianus, panegyricus dictus Honorio quartum consuli (Ornella Fuoco, 2024);  Claudianus, panegyricus dictus Honorio sextum consuli (Ornella Fuoco, 2024); 
  Claudianus, panegyricus dictus Honorio tertium consuli (Ornella Fuoco, 2023); Caper, *de orthographia, uersus inserti (L. Di Simone, 2024); elogium Asbadi (G. Cattaneo, 2024); Hilarius Pictauiensis, *de euangelio (G. Cattaneo, 2024); Priscianus, carmen in laudem Anastasii imperatoris (L. Di Simone, 2024); Calpurnius Siculus, eclogae (L. Di Simone, 2023); laus Pisonis (L. Di Simone, 2023); anthologia Latina 380 (A. Prontera, 2022); Lucretius, de rerum natura 1 (P. Mastandrea, V. Melis, A. Prontera, 2022).

Poeti d’Italia: latest additions (2024-)

• Beroaldo il Vecchio, Filippo (ed. L. Mondin); Dati, Niccolò (ed. L. Mondin); Sapido, Giovanni, praefatio (P. Mastandrea, 2026); Uranio, Giambattista, carmina ad lectorem (P. Mastandrea, 2026)