La piattaforma Middle Ages’ Digital Epigraphy – MADE: dall’archiviazione alla disseminazione delle ‘storie su pietra’ di Roma e dell’Alto Lazio nel Medioevo

This paper presents MADE platform (Middle Ages’ Digital Epigraphy), the first digital ecosystem dedicated to the systematic collection, organization and dissemination of medieval inscriptions (7th to 15th centuries) from Upper Lazio and Rome, a corpus that has hitherto lacked an integrated and accessible digital environment. The Project pursues a dual objective: to develop an interactive database of both extant and lost inscriptions, grounded in a standardized vocabulary and compliant with FAIR principles and to promote this material dissemination through innovative frameworks of ‘communicated’ and ‘participatory’ epigraphy. In accordance with this latter objective, the article examines two inscriptions currently included in the platform – one from Rome and one from Viterbo area – reconstructing their respective contexts and historical trajectories: the extant documentary inscription (1305) from St Andrea in Campo in Montefiascone (VT), and the lost funerary inscription († 1331) of Giovanni di Paolo Capocci from St Eusebio in Rome. These case studies underscore the richness and complexity of the historical narratives embedded in epigraphic texts, also highlighting their broader historical and social significance.