diff --git a/data/ita/Corsaro_2000_Lando-Paradossi/metadata.txt b/data/ita/Corsaro_2000_Lando-Paradossi/metadata.txt
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+publicationType : "book"
+publicationTitle : "Paradossi, cioè sentenze fuori del comun parere"
+publicationDate : "2000"
+publicationPlace : "Roma"
+publicationSeries : ""
+publicationNum: ""
+publicationStemmaNum: ""
+publicationAuthors : "Corsaro, Antonio"
+publicationPage : ""
+publicationLink : ""
+workTitle : "Paradossi, cioè sentenze fuori del comun parere"
+workViaf : "2226159764104208170001"
+workOrigDate : "1543?"
+workOrigPlace : ""
+workAuthor : "Lando, Ortensio"
+workAuthorViaf : "19762672"
+workGenre : ""
+workLangCode : "ita"
+stemmaType : "observed"
+contam : "no"
+extraStemmContam : "no"
+rootType : "original"
+contributor : "Jean-Baptiste Camps"
+contributorORCID : "0000-0003-0385-7037"
+note : "Stemma encoded not from the edition, but from Trovato (2004), Sugli stemmi bipartiti"
+wits:
+    - witSigla: "L"
+      witSignature: ""
+      witOrigDate: "1543"
+      witOrigPlace: ""
+      witNotes: ""
+      witMsDesc: ""
+      witDigit: ""
+    - witSigla: "Vlx"
+      witSignature: ""
+      witOrigDate: "1544"
+      witOrigPlace: ""
+      witNotes: ""
+      witMsDesc: ""
+      witDigit: ""
+    - witSigla: "V2"
+      witSignature: ""
+      witOrigDate: "1544"
+      witOrigPlace: ""
+      witNotes: ""
+      witMsDesc: ""
+      witDigit: ""
+    - witSigla: "B"
+      witSignature: ""
+      witOrigDate: "1594"
+      witOrigPlace: ""
+      witNotes: ""
+      witMsDesc: ""
+      witDigit: ""
+    - witSigla: "V1"
+      witSignature: ""
+      witOrigDate: "1602"
+      witOrigPlace: ""
+      witNotes: ""
+      witMsDesc: ""
+      witDigit: ""
+    - witSigla: "V3"
+      witSignature: ""
+      witOrigDate: "1544"
+      witOrigPlace: ""
+      witNotes: ""
+      witMsDesc: ""
+      witDigit: ""
+    - witSigla: "V4"
+      witSignature: ""
+      witOrigDate: "1545"
+      witOrigPlace: ""
+      witNotes: ""
+      witMsDesc: ""
+      witDigit: ""
+    - witSigla: "V5"
+      witSignature: ""
+      witOrigDate: "1545"
+      witOrigPlace: ""
+      witNotes: ""
+      witMsDesc: ""
+      witDigit: ""
+    - witSigla: "Vly"
+      witSignature: ""
+      witOrigDate: "1544"
+      witOrigPlace: ""
+      witNotes: ""
+      witMsDesc: ""
+      witDigit: ""
+    - witSigla: "L2"
+      witSignature: ""
+      witOrigDate: "1550"
+      witOrigPlace: ""
+      witNotes: ""
+      witMsDesc: ""
+      witDigit: ""
+    - witSigla: "V6"
+      witSignature: ""
+      witOrigDate: "1563"
+      witOrigPlace: ""
+      witNotes: ""
+      witMsDesc: ""
+      witDigit: ""
diff --git a/data/ita/Corsaro_2000_Lando-Paradossi/stemma.gv b/data/ita/Corsaro_2000_Lando-Paradossi/stemma.gv
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index 00000000..8b76ec2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/ita/Corsaro_2000_Lando-Paradossi/stemma.gv
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+digraph {
+L->V1x;
+V1x->V2;
+V2->B;
+B->V1;
+V2->V3;
+V3->V4;
+V4->V5;
+L->Vly;
+L->L2;
+L2->V6;
+}
diff --git a/data/ita/Corsaro_2000_Lando-Paradossi/stemma.png b/data/ita/Corsaro_2000_Lando-Paradossi/stemma.png
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diff --git a/data/ita/Nicolodi_2003_Romani-Turco/metadata.txt b/data/ita/Nicolodi_2003_Romani-Turco/metadata.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8b8aaf48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/ita/Nicolodi_2003_Romani-Turco/metadata.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+publicationType : "article"
+publicationTitle : "La tradizione primo ottocentesca dei libretti (1814-1830)"
+publicationDate : "2003"
+publicationPlace : "Pesaro"
+publicationSeries : "Gioacchino Rossini, Il Turco in Italia, a cura di Fiamma Nicolodi"
+publicationNum: ""
+publicationStemmaNum: ""
+publicationAuthors : "Nicolodia, Fiamma; Trovato, Paolo"
+publicationPage : "LXI-CI"
+publicationLink : ""
+workTitle : "Il Turco in Italia"
+workViaf : "306072732"
+workOrigDate : "1814"
+workOrigPlace : ""
+workAuthor : "Felice Romani"
+workAuthorViaf : "19683628"
+workGenre : "libretto"
+workLangCode : "ita"
+stemmaType : "observed"
+contam : "yes"
+extraStemmContam : "no"
+rootType : "original"
+contributor : "Jean-Baptiste Camps"
+contributorORCID : "0000-0003-0385-7037"
+note : "Stemma encoded not from the edition, but from Trovato (2004), Sugli stemmi bipartiti"
diff --git a/data/ita/Nicolodi_2003_Romani-Turco/stemma.gv b/data/ita/Nicolodi_2003_Romani-Turco/stemma.gv
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index 00000000..96c1197e
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+++ b/data/ita/Nicolodi_2003_Romani-Turco/stemma.gv
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+digraph {
+Dr16RV[label="Dr16 R-V"]
+Mi14->Mi19;
+Mi14->Münch19;
+Mi14->Al22;
+Mi14->Bo16;
+Bo16->Lu19;
+Bo16->Ra17;
+Bo16->Si17;
+Si17->Paris20;
+Paris20->Lond21;
+Si17->Si22;
+Si22->Si30;
+Si17->Tn24;
+Mi14->Fi14;
+Fi14->Fe15;
+Fe15->Dr16RV;
+Fe15->Mo18;
+Mo18->Mo21;
+Fi14->Ve16;
+Ve16->Mn17;
+Mn17->Barc20;
+Barc20->Madr22;
+Mn17->Pa23;
+Ve16->To16;
+To16->To23;
+To23->To30;
+To16->Vr17;
+Si17->Fi14[style="dashed"];
+Pa23->To23[style="dashed"]; //small doubt as to the exact target of this one.
+}
diff --git a/data/ita/Nicolodi_2003_Romani-Turco/stemma.png b/data/ita/Nicolodi_2003_Romani-Turco/stemma.png
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diff --git a/data/ita/Richardson_2001_Fortunio-Regole/metadata.txt b/data/ita/Richardson_2001_Fortunio-Regole/metadata.txt
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index 00000000..ee5f4953
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/ita/Richardson_2001_Fortunio-Regole/metadata.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+publicationType : "book"
+publicationTitle : "Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua"
+publicationDate : "2001"
+publicationPlace : "Roma/Padova"
+publicationSeries : ""
+publicationNum: ""
+publicationStemmaNum: ""
+publicationAuthors : "Richardson, Brian"
+publicationPage : ""
+publicationLink : ""
+workTitle : "Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua"
+workViaf : "189376359"
+workOrigDate : "1516"
+workOrigPlace : "Trieste?"
+workAuthor : "Giovanni Francesco Fortunio"
+workAuthorViaf : "76535047"
+workGenre : "grammar"
+workLangCode : "ita"
+stemmaType : "observed"
+contam : "no"
+extraStemmContam : "no"
+rootType : "original"
+contributor : "Jean-Baptiste Camps"
+contributorORCID : "0000-0003-0385-7037"
+note : "Stemma encoded not from the edition, but from Trovato (2004), Sugli stemmi bipartiti"
diff --git a/data/ita/Richardson_2001_Fortunio-Regole/stemma.gv b/data/ita/Richardson_2001_Fortunio-Regole/stemma.gv
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..829b301a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/ita/Richardson_2001_Fortunio-Regole/stemma.gv
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+digraph {
+
+O[label="1516 Guerr"]
+M1[label="1517 Minuz"]
+S1[label="1517 Scinz"]
+A1[label="1518 Arriv"]
+Z1[label="1538 Zio"]
+B1[label="1524 Bind"]
+G1[label="1527 Gar"]
+S2[label="1529 Sessa"]
+N1[label="1533 Nicol"]
+B2[label="1533 Bind"]
+B3[label="1539 Bind"]
+B4[label="1550 Bind"]
+C1[label="1552 Calp"]
+F1[label="1541 F. di Aldo"]
+S3[label="1541-50 Sessa"]
+P1[label="1551 Padov"]
+A2[label="1545 Aldo"]
+A3[label="1552 Aldo"]
+S4[label="1562 Sans"]
+R1[label="1565 Rampaz"]
+S5[label="1643 Salicat"]
+
+O->M1;
+O->S1;
+O->A1;
+A1->Z1;
+A1->B1;
+B1->G1;
+G1->S2;
+S2->N1;
+N1->B2;
+B2->B3;
+B3->B4;
+B4->C1;
+B3->F1;
+F1->S3;
+S3->P1;
+F1->A2;
+A2->A3;
+F1->S4;
+S4->R1;
+B1-> S5;
+
+}
diff --git a/data/ita/Richardson_2001_Fortunio-Regole/stemma.png b/data/ita/Richardson_2001_Fortunio-Regole/stemma.png
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diff --git a/data/ita/Trovato_2004_Sannazaro-Arcadia/metadata.txt b/data/ita/Trovato_2004_Sannazaro-Arcadia/metadata.txt
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index 00000000..adfca884
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/ita/Trovato_2004_Sannazaro-Arcadia/metadata.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+publicationType : "article"
+publicationTitle : "Sugli stemmi bipartiti: decimazione, asimmetria e calcolo delle probabilità. 1. Dagli alberi reali agli stemmi"
+publicationDate : "2004"
+publicationPlace : ""
+publicationSeries : "Filologia italiana"
+publicationNum: "1"
+publicationStemmaNum: ""
+publicationAuthors : "Trovato, Paolo"
+publicationPage : ""
+publicationLink : ""
+workTitle : "Arcadia (ii redazione)"
+workViaf : "223467036"
+workOrigDate : "1480 c. ?"
+workOrigPlace : "Naples?"
+workAuthor : "Sannazaro, Jacopo"
+workAuthorViaf : "87990970"
+workGenre : ""
+workLangCode : "ita"
+stemmaType : "observed"
+contam : "yes"
+extraStemmContam : "no"
+rootType : "original"
+contributor : "Jean-Baptiste Camps"
+contributorORCID : "0000-0003-0385-7037"
+note : "Deprecated version, see Trovato 2014 instead. -- There are unexplicited representations in the stemma as published in the paper: dashed arrow travelling back and a single node uniting 4 editions. I have explicited them using Trovato (2014), Everything…, p. 141-143."
diff --git a/data/ita/Trovato_2004_Sannazaro-Arcadia/stemma.gv b/data/ita/Trovato_2004_Sannazaro-Arcadia/stemma.gv
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a4f2d995
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/ita/Trovato_2004_Sannazaro-Arcadia/stemma.gv
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+digraph {
+Na[label="1504Na"]
+Ald[label="1514 Ald"]
+Rusc[label="1515 Rusc"]
+Zopp1[label="1521 Zopp"]
+Zopp2[label="1524 Zopp"]
+Pag[label="1515 Pag"]
+Fi1[label="1515 Fi"]
+Tac[label="1519 Tac"]
+Rusc2[label="1522 Rusc"]
+Fi2[label="1519 Fi"]
+Ald2[label="1534 Ald"]
+Greg[label="1525 Gref"]
+Zopp2[label="1524 Zopp"]
+Zopp3[label="1530 Zopp"]
+Pag2[label="1530-1 Pag"]
+Bind1[label="1531 Bind"]
+Bind2[label="1533 Bind"]
+Bind3[label="1543 Bind"]
+Bind4[label="1545 Bind"]
+Imp[label="1548 Imp"]
+Sess[label="1532 Sess"]
+Zio[label="1538 Zio"]
+Guad1[label="1539 Guad"]
+Guad2[label="1543 Guad"]
+Gio[label="1543 Gio"]
+Gio2[label="1549 Gio"]
+Sta[label="1531 Sta"]
+Na2[label="1507 Na"] 
+Mi1[label="1509 Mi"]
+Mi2[label="1510 Mi"]
+Mi3[label="1512 Mi"]
+
+Bo1516[label="1516 Bo"]
+Bo1520[label="1520 Bo"]
+
+Na->Ald;
+Ald->Rusc;
+Rusc->Zopp1;
+Zopp1->Zopp2;
+Ald->Pag;
+Ald->Fi1;
+Fi1->Tac;
+Tac->Rusc2;
+Fi1->Fi2;
+Ald->Ald2;
+Ald->Greg;
+Ald->Zopp3;
+Zopp3->Pag2;
+Zopp3->Bind1;
+Bind1->Sess;
+Sess->Zio;
+Bind1->Bind2;
+Bind2->Bind3;
+Bind3->Bind4;
+Bind4->Imp;
+Bind1->Guad1;
+Guad1->Guad2;
+Guad2->Gio;
+Gio->Gio2;
+Bind1->Sta;
+Ald->Bo1520;
+Na->Na2;
+Na->Mi1;
+Na->Mi2;
+Na->Mi3;
+Na->Bo1516;
+Sta->Na2[style="dashed"];//this is a bit unclear : where does the arrow go exactly……
+
+}
+
diff --git a/data/ita/Trovato_2004_Sannazaro-Arcadia/stemma.png b/data/ita/Trovato_2004_Sannazaro-Arcadia/stemma.png
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diff --git a/data/ita/Trovato_2014_Sannazaro-Arcadia/metadata.txt b/data/ita/Trovato_2014_Sannazaro-Arcadia/metadata.txt
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index 00000000..327102be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/ita/Trovato_2014_Sannazaro-Arcadia/metadata.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+publicationType : "book"
+publicationTitle : "Everything you always wanted to know about Lachmann's method: a non-standard handbook of genealogical textual criticism in the age of post-structuralism, cladistics, and copy-text"
+publicationDate : "2014"
+publicationPlace : "Limena"
+publicationSeries : ""
+publicationNum: ""
+publicationStemmaNum: ""
+publicationAuthors : "Trovato, Paolo"
+publicationPage : "142"
+publicationLink : ""
+workTitle : "Arcadia (ii redazione)"
+workViaf : "223467036"
+workOrigDate : "1480 c. ?"
+workOrigPlace : "Naples?"
+workAuthor : "Sannazaro, Jacopo"
+workAuthorViaf : "87990970"
+workGenre : ""
+workLangCode : "ita"
+stemmaType : "observed"
+contam : "no"
+extraStemmContam : "no"
+rootType : "original"
+contributor : "Jean-Baptiste Camps"
+contributorORCID : "0000-0003-0385-7037"
+note : "There are unexplicited representations in the stemma as initiall published in the paper (Guidi & Trovato, Sugli stemmi bipartiti: decimazione, asimmetria e calcolo delle probabilità. 1. Dagli alberi reali agli stemmi): dashed arrow travelling back and a single node uniting 4 editions. I have explicited them using Trovato (2014), Everything…, p. 141-143 (text explains that it is 4 different nodes, and the backward arrows disappear)."
diff --git a/data/ita/Trovato_2014_Sannazaro-Arcadia/stemma.gv b/data/ita/Trovato_2014_Sannazaro-Arcadia/stemma.gv
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0f3a057f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/ita/Trovato_2014_Sannazaro-Arcadia/stemma.gv
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+digraph {
+Na[label="1504Na"]
+Ald[label="1514 Ald"]
+Rusc[label="1515 Rusc"]
+Zopp1[label="1521 Zopp"]
+Zopp2[label="1524 Zopp"]
+Pag[label="1515 Pag"]
+Fi1[label="1515 Giu"]
+Tac[label="1519 Tac"]
+Rusc2[label="1522 Rusc"]
+Fi2[label="1519 Giu"]
+Ald2[label="1534 Ald"]
+Greg[label="1525 Gref"]
+Zopp2[label="1524 Zopp"]
+Zopp3[label="1530 Zopp"]
+Pag2[label="[1530-1] Pag"]
+Bind1[label="1531 Bind"]
+Bind2[label="1533 Bind"]
+Bind3[label="1543 Bind"]
+Bind4[label="1545 Bind"]
+Imp[label="1548 Imp"]
+Sess[label="1532 Sess"]
+Zio[label="1538 Zio"]
+Guad1[label="1539 Guad"]
+Guad2[label="1543 Guad"]
+Gio[label="1543 Gio"]
+Gio2[label="1549 Gio"]
+Sta[label="1531 Sta"]
+Na2[label="[1507]"] 
+Mi1[label="1509"]
+Mi2[label="1510"]
+Mi3[label="1512"]
+
+Bo1516[label="1516 Bo"]
+Bo1520[label="1520 Bo"]
+
+Na->Ald;
+Ald->Rusc;
+Rusc->Zopp1;
+Zopp1->Zopp2;
+Ald->Pag;
+Ald->Fi1;
+Fi1->Tac;
+Tac->Rusc2;
+Fi1->Fi2;
+Ald->Ald2;
+Ald->Greg;
+Ald->Zopp3;
+Zopp3->Pag2;
+Zopp3->Bind1;
+Bind1->Sess;
+Sess->Zio;
+Bind1->Bind2;
+Bind2->Bind3;
+Bind3->Bind4;
+Bind4->Imp;
+Bind1->Guad1;
+Guad1->Guad2;
+Guad2->Gio;
+Gio->Gio2;
+Bind1->Sta;
+Ald->Bo1520;
+Na->Na2;
+Na->Mi1;
+Na->Mi2;
+Na->Mi3;
+Na->Bo1516;
+
+}
+
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