Monete e testi : il cartaceo e l’immagine

The case of the particular kind of jewellery with coins made by the XIX century Castellani manufactory from Rome, is the reason why a program of data elaboration has been implemented, to manage a quantity of written informations (archives and figurative and technical descriptions) together with images: five different sheets are needed to join all the main elements. On this basis, an analogous database can be developed to investigate texts such as the XVI century manuscript by Pirro Ligorio, where coins are used to write an historical prosopography illustrting, by means of drawings, the history of the old most famous men of the Roman Republic. However, the coins are not always reproduced wrightly or the same coin is used on different occasions: a program like this can detect these cases. Computer analysis together with the traditional humanistic research will achieve, on an historical basis, remarkable results.