The text explores the methodological, conceptual, and ethical possibilities and limits of using digital techniques, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), for the study of festive and scenographic culture in the Early Modern. Through the nuptial celebration of Cosimo II de’ Medici and Maria Magdalena of Austria in Florence (1608), several case studies are presented with the aim of recovering the performative, multisensory, and emotional aspects, buried over time, now accessible through digital methods, a kind of algorithmic prodigies.