The talk explores the convergence of philology and digital forensics in the study of born-digital literary archives. The first part outlines the methodological notion of digitale d'autore, which conceives the archive not as a stable repository but as a dynamic, event-based system of relations between entities, formats, and agents. The second part presents a case study from the Franco Fortini collection: the poem Dimmi, tu conoscevi, from Composita solvantur (1994), preserved on floppy disk. Through hexadecimal analysis an earlier textual layer (F2h) is recovered that survives only within the file's binary structure, invisible to ordinary reading. The case shows that a digital file is not merely a container of text, but a stratified writing space whose structure may preserve involuntary traces of the creative process.
Carbé et al. (Fri,) studied this question.