Simulazione e rappresentazione nella classificazione dei marginalia d’autore: la tassonomia interpretativa delle postille autografe di Umberto Eco

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between ‘representation’ and ‘simulation’ in relation to the classification of authorial marginalia, in particular by present-ing and commenting on my taxonomy of Umberto Eco’s autograph marginalia in his modern library collections. In the first section, I will make some preliminary remarks on dictionaries and encyclopaedias as models of representation and their application to the classification of marginalia. In the second section, I will then present and discuss the four sections of Eco’s marginalia map, highlighting their original aspects and proposing some concrete examples. In conclusion, a final reflection will be offered on the merits of the modelling approaches adopted and the efficacy of the Echian encyclopaedic model