This page treats Authority as a reading environment in its own right, not just as an auxiliary panel. It explains what kinds of objects are currently inside the layer, how tracked authors, personaggi, and work layers now fit together, and what sort of authority-reading the current build actually supports.
What This Layer Is
The Authority Layer does not simply collect cited names. It reorganises commentary use into local authority profiles, work-level entry lanes, personaggio rooms, and commentary-source bridges. Its job is to make authority usage readable as a navigable tradition rather than as a residue hidden inside record cards.
In practical terms, that means the layer now supports multiple levels of objecthood: fully shaped objects such as Aristotle or Virgil, a full tracked author universe, and personaggi that can now be entered through poem hits, commentary aliases, and local figure bands.
Current Build Snapshot
The public-facing local build currently exposes … tracked authority authors, … bridged commentary source texts, and … stable highlightable author lexicon entries.
The point of these numbers is not display. They mark that Authority is no longer a thin experiment: it now has enough mass to justify a distinct reading page and a distinct entry logic.
Tracked Authors
These are the tracked authors that the current build has already accepted into the canonical authority layer. Some are deeper than others, but all of them now enter as ready objects.
Source Bridges
Commentary-source bridges matter because Authority should not stop at names alone. When the bridge is present, the layer can open local source text rather than stopping at a bare occurrence.
Highlight Lexicon
Authority is now also present inside commentary reading itself. Author, work, and personaggio highlights let the text page begin to glow with the same universe that the Authority Lens already knows.
Authority Atlas
The Authority universe is no longer one undifferentiated list. It now contains mature trees, flat work overviews, special-case objects, and a wider field of ready work layers. This section keeps those strata visible as a map, not just as a total count.
Mature Works Trees
… authors currently expose a real works-tree layer.
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Flat Work Overviews
… authors currently enter through a flat work overview rather than a full tree.
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Special-Case Objects
… authors currently remain special-case and should not be flattened into ordinary work trees.
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Ready Work Layers
… authors currently enter as ready objects across the authority layer, even when they do not all grow into the same kind of work structure.
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Personaggi
Authority no longer ends with authors. Some tracked authors also stand inside the poem as real dramatic figures, and some figure-lanes deserve direct character-space instead of being forced back into autore intake.
The current build recognises … Autore-Personaggio entries and … standalone personaggi.
Autore-Personaggio
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Standalone Personaggi
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How To Enter It
There are now three honest entry routes. One begins from the Authority panel itself. One begins from the Compare workspace, where shared authority usage appears between pinned cards. One begins inside the commentary text, where highlighted author and work surfaces now start to signal the same authority universe directly in the reading flow.
Authority Lens
The Lens should be read as a staged entry, not as a flat filter. The contract banner, drilldown lane, and bucket notes now explain what kind of object you are entering and which layer of the completed authority universe you are opening.
Author Entry
Readiness no longer depends on pretending every author has the same structure. Some enter through fuller work layers, some through flatter objects, and some remain deliberately special-case.
Commentary Highlights
Authority highlights now keep authority-reading close to the page. This matters because the Authority universe should not live only in a side panel; it should also become visible where the commentary language itself starts invoking it.
Object Types
The current layer does not flatten every author into one model. Some are work trees. Some are flat objects. Some stay special-case. That plurality is intentional.
Mature Structures
Authors such as Aristotle, Paul, Augustine, Virgil, Ovid, or Cicero already support deeper drilldown, pressure/frontline metadata, and more explicit entry contracts.
Broader Ready Objects
Newer entrants such as Avicenna, Averroè, Ugo di San Vittore, San Pietro, and the second-universe historical lanes belong here. They already deserve presence, but they should still be read through the object they currently expose, not through a fake uniform work tree.
Still Uneven
The point is not to suppress internal unevenness but to avoid pretending every object is deep in the same way. That honesty is part of the layer’s design.
Boundaries
This page does not claim that every cited name is already solved. It claims something more useful: the layer now has enough scale, discipline, and entry logic to deserve a page of its own.
The next frontier is therefore not blind expansion. It is to keep thickening reading contracts, clickable entry routes, work-level drilldown, and commentary-integrated authority paths for the universe that already exists.