The corpus of Digital Variants increases as writers donate new material and documents to the archive. Consequently, this page lists only the texts currently scheduled for publication. NOTE: All the texts which will be available on DV are protected by the copyright laws and their use is permitted only for research and / or teaching purposes.

Vincenzo Cerami
From this author DV received a series of stories in various stages of writing. The final versions of the texts were published in the collection La gente (Turin: Einaudi, 1993). The archive holds these final versions, the first versions published in "Il Messaggero" (Roman local newspaper) in the summer of 1991, two intermediate versions, and the Einaudi drafts sent by the publisher to Cerami for final revision. An original interview with the author about the influences of the computer on his writing style is also available on this site.
These are the texts DV is working on:

L'indiscreto ("Il Messaggero", suppl. "Giochi", 9 July - 7 September 1991)	La gente (Cerami 1993)
L'uomo del microscopio, July 31st, p. VII	L'uomo del microscopio, p. 5
Una lettera d'amore July 28th, p. VII	Lettera d'amore, p. 26
L'uovo di colombo [no date]	L'uovo di colombo, p. 54
Le visioni del calvo, July 21st, p. VII	Le visioni del calvo, p. 74
La donna serpente, August 10th, p. VII	La donna serpente, p. 85
L'uomo che ama il metro', July 10th, p. VII	Le luci del metrò, p. 90
La foto di Garibaldi, July 19th, p. VII	Il fotografo del Papa, p. 106
Una donna alta [no date]	Una donna alta, p. 111
Confessioni di un invidioso [no date]	Confessioni di un invidioso, p. 133
Una zitella moderna [no date]	Paul Newman, p. 142
La sala d'aspetto, July 13th, p. VII	La sala d'aspetto, p. 190

To these texts we can also add other two stories in (at least) three writing passages: "L'esercito dei tipi strani", not published in "Il Messaggero" (in the Einaudi version the title becomes "Nascosti tra la folla", p. 195), and "L'uomo del microscopio". But the archive holds also selected chapters and passages (all in electronic form) taken from the following works:

1) L'ipocrita,Turin: Einaudi, 1991 [short stories]
2) La lepre, Milan: Garzanti, 1988 [novel]
3) Ragazzo di vetro, Milan: Garzanti, 1983 [novel]
4) Un borghese piccolo piccolo, Milan: Garzanti, 1976 [novel]

Antonio Millán
Antonio Millan, writer and former director of the Centro Virtual Cervantes, gave us three versions of a story: the first version (unpublished) written between 1979 and 1980; the second written in 1989 and the third in 1991. All versions, as for Francesca Sanvitale, will be used for a Second Language Acquisition experiment.

Manuel Rico
Manuel Rico, essayist poet and novelist, gave us two novels (both in electronic form): Una mirada oblicua (Barcelona: Planeta, 1996) and El lento adiós de las tranvías (Barcelona: Mondadori, 1993). The two works, one written traditionally, the other written with a computer, will be analysed and compared to his other narrative works in order to study the influence of the computer on the writing style.

Francesca Sanvitale
Thanks to the generosity of this author DV has made available eight passages of the story "Orient Express", originally published in the literary magazine "Tuttestorie", 3-4, pp.62-67, 1991. In 1997 the text was included in the volume Separazioni (Turin: Einaudi, 1997). We are preparing an SGML edition of these eight stages of writing, while online is already possible to study one of Sanvitale's manuscript (A.1) hyperlinked to a diplomatic transcription of the following passage (B). DV holds also electronic copies of two drafts of the novel Il figlio dell'impero (Turin:Einaudi, 1993); the oldest drafts of this book contain bibliographical footnotes not included in the Einaudi edition. Finally, as for Cerami, we have a large series of passages (20 - 30 pages each) taken from the following works:

1) "Scrivendo di bambole, di cerbiatte e di Villa Borghese", in E. Siciliano, (ed.) Racconti italiani del Novecento, Milan: Mondadori, 1979-1990, pp. 1315-1338.
2) Madre e figlia, Milan: Mondadori, 1980.
3) La realtà è un dono, Milan: Mondadori, 1987.
4) Verso Paola, Turin: Einaudi, 1991.

Fernando Savater
Fernando Savater is probably the most popular living Spanish philosopher and essayist. In this section, realized thanks to the support of Prof. Xavier Renedo (University of Girona, Spain), who provided the texts, we present two versions of a piece originally written for a conference (1993), and then revised for publication in his Diccionario Filosófico (1995).

Francisco Solano
This Spanish novelist and poet, author of La noche mineral (Madrid: Debate, 1995), while writing his second novel (Una cabeza de rape, Madrid: Debate, 1997) saved for us five stages of writing of a selected chapter. The five passages, as for Sanvitale, Millán and García Galiano, will be analysed and used for an experimental course on the writing process.

Roberto Vacca
The corpus of Roberto Vacca is the most rich and complex. First of all, the author will allow us to make available all the works of which he owns copyrights. These include the novel Questo barbaro dominio (Milan: Interno Giallo, 1991) and the Sci-Fi collection Carezzate con terrore la testa dei vostri figli (Milan: Interno Giallo, 1992). But Vacca has also donated to the archive the autograph copy of the former edition of this book published originally in 1965 (Esempi di avvenire, Milan: Rizzoli). After almost 30 years the author revised and changed, often radically, most of these texts. The stories were re-written with a computer: once again this allowed us to compare the two versions and analyse how the computer influenced the author's writing style (see I Tartari prima e dopo il computer).

Finally, DV holds electronic copies of the following works:

1) Un sorta di traditori, Milan: Bompiani, 1997 (Two intermediate versions, one with hand- written corrections and comments by the author. Online you can find a chapter which was not included by Vacca in the final version of the novel).
2) Tecniche modeste per un mondo complicato, Milan: Rizzoli, 1978.
3) Comunicare come. Come trasmettere le proprie idee. Come orientarsi nel mondo dell'informazione, Milan: Garzanti, 1990.
4) Consigli a un giovane manager, Turin: Einaudi, 1999.