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Ever since the pioneering work of Roberto Busa, computers have had an important work in humanistic research. The Istituto per le Scienze Religiose has been involved in such research since the 1970s. This article describes the Pope John XXIII project whose aim is to produce a computer-aided index of all the Pope's writings in both Italian and Latin; as well as future projects currently under consideration.
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Alberto Melloni is a church historian of the ISR of Bologna: he has worked at Cornell University, Ithaca NY, and at the Catholic University of Fribourg CH. He was responsible for the concordance of the writings of pope John XXIII (several articles based on it were published and a critical edition of Roncalli's journal has been printed in 1987: II Giornale dell'Anima. Diari e scritti spirituali, ISR Bologna, I). He has worked on the history of canon law through a concordance of the Codes of the Vatican II. Melloni is now secretary of the International Committee for the History of the Vatican II. some tools for this work are presented in a forthcoming article for History and Computing.
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Melloni, A. Church history and the computer. Comput Hum 24, 393–395 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00186481
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00186481