The project aims to provide the first digital critical edition and commentary of the unedited poetic production of Giovan Francesco Straparola of Caravaggio (ca. 1480 – after 1553). The corpus of his poems, published under the title Opera nova, consists of one hundred and fifteen sonnets, thirty-five strambotti, seven epistles in tercets and twelve ternary chapters, to which a Litera overo epistola d’amore in tercets as long as a frottola were added in the expanded edition. The first known edition of the Opera nova, of which five copies have survived, was printed in Venice in 1508 by Giorgio Rusconi. An expanded edition of the work, of which only one copy has survived, was published by Alessandro di Bindoni in 1515. The Opera nova is situated within the framework of lyrical Petrarchism and exhibits a structural organization attributable to the author, so that it can be classified as a canzoniere. The editorial work will initially involve a careful search for other printed or even manuscript evidence of the entire work, individual texts or syllogies, as part of the recensio. According to the rules of textual bibliography, all surviving copies must then be compared in order to determine whether there are variant readings that can be traced back to the author. The critical text will be accompanied by a comprehensive commentary explaining the most difficult passages, alongside a metrical and stylistic analysis and a study of the sources, among which Petrarch, Dante and classical authors such as Ovid stand out. An important part of the project will be the analysis of the work as a macrostructure.