72460 - Medieval and Humanistic Literature and Philology (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students will have a comprehensive knowledge of the various aspects involved in the study of medioeval and humanistic philology: the complex relationship between the humanists and the classical tradition; the humanistic philology as a fundamental basis of the knowledge of modernity; the situation of the existent editions and the evolution of the philological criteria with the inclusion of the new technological tools. The student will also be able to make clear the relations between this discipline and others like the Italian philology and the Italian literature.

Course contents

Reading, commenting and speaking with books between Petrarch and Humanism
The first part of the course will be devoted to seize the philological and literary "dialogue" of Petrarch and Boccaccio with the latin classics: it will be showed starting from the manuscripts owned and/or annotated by them; while the second part will be directed instead to highlight particular paths fifteenth-century philology and commentary of the classics in different geographical areas, and to show the presence of such echoes or shooting in various forms of production and vulgar Latin of the fourteenth-century poets.
Lessons will begin on September 26th, 2016 and will be held on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 11:00 to 13:00 hours in the classroom D, Zamboni street, 34.

Readings/Bibliography

F. Rico, Ritratti allo specchio: Boccaccio, Petrarca, Padova-Roma, Antenore, 2012;
L. Chines,  La parola degli antichi. Umanesimi emiliano tra scuola e poesia, Roma, Carocci,1998 (capp. 1,2,3).
A. Urceo Codro, Sermones I-IV, edited by L. Chines and A. Severi, Roma, Carocci, 2013;

A. Severi, Filippo Beroaldo il Vecchio un maestro per l'Europa. da commentatore di classici a classico moderno, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015, Introduction and chapter 1

Non-attending students are required to prepare this additional volume:
M. Fiorilla, Marginalia figurati nei codici di Petrarca, Firenze, Olschki, 2005;
or
M. Fiorilla, I classici nel Canzoniere. Note di lettura e scrittura poetica in Petrarca, Padova, Antenore, 2012

Teaching methods

Lectures.

Assessment methods

The verification of the learning will be tested by an oral proof in which the student must show to have acquired 1) The ability to gather with precision the philological situation of the texts taken in examination and the matters related to their transmission, receipt and fortune; 2) the ability to appraise critically the mechanisms of the intertetualità literary in the complex dynamics that takes place among philology, exegesis and creative writing.

If a student will not be able to go deeply into the subject content and into the philological methods of the texts of the humanistic philology under the program he will receive a negative evaluation;

If a student will be able to recognize the cultural phenomena and the philological prospectives of the single texts, and he will be able to show the methodological issues of the editions proposed under the course, he will receive a positive evaluation;

If a student will be able to work out critically the subject contents and the mechanisms of the philological tachnical of the humanistic editions, he will receive an excellent evaluation.

Teaching tools

Pc, videoproiettore, photocopies

Office hours

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