10516 - Philology of Italian Literature (A-L)

Learning outcomes

With this course the student will learn the knowledge of the bases of the philological disciplines and of the Italian philology particularly, with essential notions of history of the tradition and textual criticism. The focus is to recompose the elaboration of a literary work and to read in a correct way the critical edition of an ancient and modern text.

Course contents

The Course includes a preliminary section, focused on lessons and on two guides of Italian Philology (30 hours), regarding ancient and humanistic Texts, modern and contemporary Texts of Italian Literature and items of Textual Bibliography (see Readings). Then teacher will read selected pages of Italian author, from XIV to XX century and with a profile of Italian Literature in  the perspective of literary autographs (30 hours: see Readings ).

Literary autographs are a particular character of a literary text, verified when the papers that preserve the literary work are, all or partly, of hand of the author. The recent publication of Autografi dei letterati italiani, Rome, Salerno, 2006 ss. (of which numerous items are available online in Academia.Edu), allows to experiment the continuity and the long duration of this phenomenon within the Italian literature: a phenomenon that has induced the Italian philology, during the last century, to seek the methodologies and the most proper (actually to the digital philology) techniques to represent, textually and critically, the complexity of an autograph.

Readings/Bibliography

I part:  B. Bentivogli e P. Vecchi Galli, Filologia italiana, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2002; Paola Italia e Giulia Raboni, Che cos'è la filologia d'autore, Roma, Carocci, 2010.

II part: Matteo Motolese, Scritti a mano. Otto storie di capolavori italiani da Boccaccio a Eco, Milano, Garzanti, 2017.

Paola Italia, Il metodo di Leopardi. Varianti e stile nella formazione delle Canzoni, Roma, Carocci, 2016.

Claudio Colaiacomo, <<Canti>> di Giacomo Leopardi, in Letteratura italiana Einaudi. Le opere: online

Selected pages from: Giacomo Leopardi, Canti, Edizione critica a c. di Emilio Peruzzi, Milano, Bur-Rizzoli.

Not attending students will fully read:

Giacomo Leopardi, Canti, Edizione critica a c. di Emilio Peruzzi, Milano, Bur-Rizzoli.

Teaching methods

The Course consists in 30 frontal lessons (60 hours) in the second semester of the year, and is articulated into two parts. The first one aims to give the students theoric instruments and the lexicon of Italian Philology; the second introduces to a philological examination of ancient and modern Texts of Italian Literature in the perspective of literary autographs, with a close examination of the critical edition of Leopardi, Canti.

The frontal lessons  will present materials of support in power point, that will be available on the personal site of the teacher. In class the teacher will turn questions to the students to solicit them to the maturation of a critical language, and will develop free exercises in oral form and writing.

The teacher is to disposition, in the hours of reception and before or after the frontal lessons, to furnish papers or further elucidations on the program.

Assessment methods

Oral colloquium. It's obligatory to subscribe through Almaesami.

During the oral exam the teacher will appraise the linguistic and critical ability to elaborate a coherent philological and interpretative discourse on the literary work with special regard for the themes dealt in Course.

Normally the questions (at least four)  regard elements of Ancient and Modern Philology and the analysis of the critical edition; the last question of the oral exam always concerns a subject freely chosen by the student among those covered in class.

Are appreciated and positively valued:

correctness and quality of the answer

close examination of the subject

correctness of language.

Teaching tools

Frontal lessons, including oral and written applications.

Office hours

See the website of Paola Vecchi