The research project Italian Poetry in Latin was established in 1999 with the goal of identifying, cataloguing, and digitising Latin verse composed within the Italian geographical area or cultural milieu, roughly between the birth of Dante and the mid-16th century. Over time, the archive has grown significantly through the contributions of numerous scholars and is now part of the broader MQDQ Galaxy project.

Today, Italian Poetry in Latin offers, in digital format, a rich collection of Latin poetic texts — both anonymous and by well-known authors — many of which are unpublished, difficult to access, or long overlooked. These texts can be explored through a search engine, whose capabilities were significantly expanded in 2023 to enable integrated and extended queries across the Musisque Deoque corpus of ancient Latin poetry. In 2025, this functionality was further extended to include the Musa Medievalis corpus, which is now fully accessible online and easily searchable. Together, these developments greatly enhance the scope for rapid and reliable intertextual analysis across an impressive chronological span of eighteen centuries, from the earliest expressions of Roman literary language to the heights of Italian Humanism and the Renaissance.