27928 - Laboratory (1) (LM) (G.G)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the seminar successful students will know the problems relating to the scholarly editing and studing of modern manuscripts, from '700 to' '800 and will be able to transcribe and edit, in order to make a critical study, a text among those shown during the exercises.

Course contents

The seminar aims to prepare master's student, who has already supported the institutional exams of Italian Literature and have a basic knowledge of Italian philology, to the study of modern manuscript ( '700-'900). After a general overview of Authorial Philology - the branch of philology that deals with authorial variants - through case studies, coming from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth century (Alfieri, Leopardi, Manzoni, Montale, Gadda), modern manuscripts reading and transcription methods will be shown, explaining all the elements of a scholarly critical edition: text, apparatus, alternative variants, genetic variants, phases, footnotes ets. Modern techniques of digital reproduction and representation, and their impact in the manuscript interpretation and in the constitution of the text will be explained. Stylistic notions and criticism of variants will be also dealt, with some case studies of "authorial compulsory edition" (Gadda) and "non authorial manuscript edition" (Montale).

Readings/Bibliography

A. Petrucci, La descrizione del manoscritto. Storia, problemi, modelli, Roma, Carocci, 2001.

M. Maniaci, Terminologia del libro manoscritto, Roma, Istituto Centrale per la Patologia del Libro - Milano, Ed. Bibliografica, 1996 (2a ed.: 1998) disponibile anche in rete all'indirizzo: http://vocabulaire.irht.cnrs.fr/

Paola Italia-Giulia Raboni, Che cos'è la filologia d'autore, Roma, Carocci, 2016 (V ed.).

Norme per i collaboratori dei Manoscritti datati d'Italia. Seconda edizione rivista ed ampliata, a cura di T. De Robertis, N. Giovè Marchioli, R. Miriello, M. Palma, S. Zamponi, Firenze, 2007.

www.filologiadautore.it

http://www.item.ens.fr/

 

CASE STUDIES

 

V. Alfieri, Vita scritta da esso, manoscritto Laurenziano Alfieri 241/2, a cura di Clemente Mazzotta e Gino Tellini, Firenze, Polistampa, 2003, voll. 3.

G. Leopardi, Canti e Poesie disperse, edizione critica diretta da Franco Gavazzeni, a cura di Cristiano Animosi, Paola Italia, Maddalena Lombardi, Rossano Pestarino, Sara Rosini, Edizioni dell'Accademia della Crusca, Firenze, 2009² (con DVD).

A. Manzoni, Fermo e Lucia, edizione critica diretta da Dante Isella, a cura di Barbara Colli, Paola Italia, Giulia Raboni, Edizione Nazionale ed Europea delle Opere di A. Manzoni, Milano, Casa del Manzoni, 2006.

C. E. Gadda, Eros e Priapo, edizione critica secondo l'autografo del 1944-46, a cura di Paola Italia e Giorgio Pinotti, Milano, Adelphi, 2013 (in preparazione e consultabile on line sulla piattaforma WIKI www.filologiadautore.it/wiki).

E. Montale, L'opera in versi, edizione critica a cura di Rosanna Bettarini e Gianfranco Contini, Torino, Einaudi, 1996.

Teaching methods

Lessons and exercises with tablet and computer; digital recording and digital images in e-learning.

Assessment methods

After the workshop, the student must submit a dissertation consisting in a critical edition of a manuscript. The assessment will follow the following guidelines: insufficient: absence or big deficiency of the basics, in every part of the program; passing grade (corresponding to 18-21): possession of the basics with some gaps; poor connection capacity between data, lack of autonomy in the elaboration of the content; passable marks (corresponding to 22-24): possession of the basics; discrete connection capacity between data, good autonomy in the elaboration of the content; good vote (corresponding to 25-27): possess intermediate-level knowledge; precision and connection capabilities between data, good autonomy in the elaboration of the content; very good vote (corresponding to 28-30): possession of medium to high-level knowledge; excellent connection capabilities between data and critical revision and aware of the contents.

Teaching tools

Power point; digital analysis of manuscript; wiki-platform to makle digital critical editions; digital audio recording of the lessons.

Links to further information

http://filologiadautore.it

Office hours

See the website of Paola Maria Carmela Italia