[Schedatura del romanzo Nelle tenebre di G. Baffico (1898)]

Giuseppe Baffico’s novel Nelle tenebre has been indexed using a four-stage methodological framework that integrates: 1) bibliographical identification, mapping authorial data (names/pseudonyms) and the publishing history of the princeps edition (whether in book form or serialized in journals) while specifying the authoritative critical edition; 2) taxonomic classification, sorting by literary genres within an open-ended structure and composing thematic abstracts centered on the portrayal of disability; 3) comparative lexical analysis, applying a dual semantic tagging system that pairs historical vocabulary (the author’s original wording) with contemporary analytical categories (current terminology) to facilitate a diachronic investigation into the language of disability; and 4) a documentary apparatus integrating supplementary annotations (textual variants, awards, multimedia adaptations), hyperlinks to digital assets, and the compiler’s signature for scholarly accountability and tracking (https://scritturedelladisabilità.it/scridi/nelle-tenebre/).