On 10 November 2026, the ERC LAUDARE project took part in the Giornata della Ricerca (Research Day) organised by the University of Trento’s Department of Humanities, presenting a poster titled “Per ridare voce alla lauda antica” – Giving voice back to the early lauda.

The poster, presented by Principal Investigators Marco Leonardi and Francesco Zimei, illustrated how LAUDARE is bringing this repertoire back to light:

• around 1,400 sources of laude surveyed so far, over 100 of them with musical notation;
• more than 2,300 laude transcribed and catalogued, following the MEI and TEI encoding standards;
• a relational database under development, allowing hybrid poetic-musical queries on the relationship between text and music;
• workshops, conferences and around twenty publications, helping to revive scholarly interest in the lauda.

Event Programme HERE