92938 - Methodology of Philological Research (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

Through the comparative study of handbooks of Italian philology, the course will examine the instruments of ecdotic applied to Italian literature. During the course will be examined in particular catalogues, rhyming dictionaries, indexes, archives, philological reviews, collections of texts, ancient and modern literary histories, in order to train the students to a philological perspective not extemporaneous but systematic and in-depth.

Course contents

The Course includes two sections:the first section (Section a) will provide a deepening of Italian Philological method (10 hours);the second section (Section b) will focus on philology between XV e XVI centuries. The lessons will concern in particular the poetic production of Giovanni Antonio Romanello, with the analytical examination of the manuscripts and of the ancient prints that transmit his poems, to then retrace the necessaries phases to their critical edition. (20 hours).

Readings/Bibliography

Section a: Philological method.

Bruno Bentivogli, Francesca Florimbii, Paola Vecchi Galli, Filologia italiana, Milano, Pearson, 2020.

or:

Michelangelo Zaccarello, L'edizione critica del testo letterario. Primo corso di filologia italiana, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2017.

Section b: Phenomenology of the copy.

Giovanni Antonio Romanello, Amorosi versi (Rhytmi vulgares), ed. by Francesca Florimbii, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2019.

Non-attending students will have to complete the program with the study of Armando Balduino, Appunti sul petrarchismo metrico nella lirica del Quattrocento e primo Cinquecento, in Idem Periferie del petrarchismo, ed. by Beatrice Bartolomeo, Attilio Motta, Roma-Padova, Antenore, 2008, pp. 31-90.

Teaching methods

The Course is organised in fifteen frontal lessons of two hours that will be held during the second semester of the Academic Year 2020-2021. It primarly concernes the deepening of theoretical and methodological elements of the critical edition. In the second part of the Course, the methodological knowledges will be applied to the study of Romanello's Amorosi versi, with a special regard to philology of ancient italian literature, between XV and XVI centuries.

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

The examination involves the knowledge of the Philological metodology applied to Italian Literature, with analysis of texts to verify aspects and methods of a modern critical edition.

During the examination will be valued the capacity to elaborate a methodological and critical discourse related ancient poetry, with readings of some of Romanello's Amorosi versi.

Teaching tools

Frontal lessons, including oral and written applications.The teacher is to disposition, in the hours of reception and before or after the lessons, to furnish papers or further elucidations on the examination and on the program.

Office hours

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