TY - CONF T1 - The Epistle to Cangrande Through the Lens of Computational Authorship Verification T2 - New Trends in Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2019 Y1 - 2019 A1 - Silvia Corbara A1 - Moreo, Alejandro A1 - Sebastiani, Fabrizio A1 - Tavoni, Mirko ED - Cristani, Marco ED - Prati, Andrea ED - Lanz, Oswald ED - Messelodi, Stefano ED - Sebe, Nicu AB - The Epistle to Cangrande is one of the most controversial among the works of Italian poet Dante Alighieri. For more than a hundred years now, scholars have been debating over its real paternity, i.e., whether it should be considered a true work by Dante or a forgery by an unnamed author. In this work we address this philological problem through the methodologies of (supervised) Computational Authorship Verification, by training a classifier that predicts whether a given work is by Dante Alighieri or not. We discuss the system we have set up for this endeavour, the training set we have assembled, the experimental results we have obtained, and some issues that this work leaves open. JF - New Trends in Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2019 PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham SN - 978-3-030-30754-7 ER -