B004499 - ITALIAN PHILOLOGY

Italian

The course is intended as an introduction to the basic principles and methods of Italian philology. These include not only the techniques used for critically editing the various types of texts, but also the skills, connected with disciplines such as paleography, linguistics and history, that allow us to understand the meaning of any specific text, as well as the ways and modes of its production, use, circulation and reception, in the light of its cultural context and date of composition.

Pasquale Stoppelli, Filologia della letteratura italiana, Nuova ed., Roma, Carocci, 2019.

Alberto Vàrvaro, Prima lezione di filologia, Roma, Laterza, 2012.

Further bibliography will be given during the course. A number of texts in digital format will be made available through moodle.

By the end of the course, each student will have reached a basic knowledge of the methods and techniques applied to the texts of the Italian literary canon within the Italian philological tradition. He or she will also better understand the importance of examining the issues of textual transmission, production, use, circulation, and reception in the light of the specific cultural context and date of any given oeuvre. In order to achieve these goals each student will need to develop a set of technical skills required to approach the work of Italian authors from a scholarly perspective.

To have a sound knowledge of Italian.

Frontal lecture.

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Oral examination aimed at assessing: 1) the student’s familiarity with the topics covered in the course; 2) the student’s ability to set the authors and writings examined in class in their historical and literary context;
3) the student’s ability to interpret the texts examined in class, with particular regard to the discussion of their philological aspects;
4) the student’s ability to articulate in a technical, yet clear, way the questions dealt with throughout the course.

The course is intended as an introduction to the basic principles and methods of Italian philology. These include not only the techniques used for critically editing the various types of texts, but also the skills, connected with disciplines such as paleography, linguistics and history, that allow us to understand the meaning of any specific text — as well as the ways and modes of its production, use, circulation and reception —, in the light of its cultural context and date of composition.