Dante Visualised

Visualising Dante's Divine Comedy

The site is visible at https://ginestra.github.io/dante-visualised/

MSc Computer Science Project - 2018

Birkbeck University, London, UK

About

Taking into account the strict linguistic rules that Dante Alighieri adopted when writing his Divine Comedy at the beginning of the XIII Century, this project will attempt at visualising the text structure, the unique rhyme scheme (terza rima) adopted by the Italian poet with the objective to highlight patterns and exceptions.

TODO: Expand for stylometric analysis.

Requirements

• Ruby version 2.2.5 or above, including all development headers
• RubyGems
• GCC and Make
• Bundler
• Jekyll

Set up the local environment

Note: Make sure your system satisfies the requirements above

• Run in the terminal gem install bundler jekyll
• Clone the repository git clone [email protected]:ginestra/dante-visualised.git
• cd into the repository
• Install everything you need in your project folder (rather than at system level): bundle install --path bundle && bundle install

Run locally

• Run in the terminal bundle exec jekyll serve --watch --incremental (the flags --watch and --incremental are optional, they are useful if editing the project)
• The site is now locally accessible at http://localhost:4000/