The team of LAUDARE presented the main features and purposes of the project in the frame of the international conference Contrafact in the Middle Ages organised by the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, project The Use and Reception of Contrafact in Late Medieval Liturgical Chant, in collaboration with the project Old Myths, New Facts, held online on 23-24 October 2023. The panel dedicated to LAUDARE was titled Contrafactio as a method: the Italian lauda in a new database, and was chaired by Jan Hajič (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences).

Hereafter, the authors and titles of the papers extracted from the program are listed:

Introduction to the project
Francesco Zimei, University of Trento

The Lauda catalogue by Annibale Tenneroni (1909), a century later 
Matteo Leonardi, University of Trento

How do sources represent contrafactio (or not) 
Lucia Marchi, University of Trento

From logical structure of Lauda sources to databases
Giacomo Pirani, University of Trento

Perspectives on the integration of machine learning techniques into musicological research
Federico Simonetta, Gran Sasso Science Institute

An example of contrafactum in the Cortona laudario: the laude ‘Regina sovrana’ and ‘Altissima luce’
Marco Gozzi, University of Trento

Warm thanks to Jan Hajič and Rhianydd Hallas!