00381 - Romance Philology (M -Z)

Learning outcomes

The student has the knowledge of the Romance literatures (especially of the Middle Ages) and the Romance languages (from the origins to the present day) learned in a comparative perspective. The student also acquires notions about the position of Italian among the Romance languages and the expansion of these in Europe and worldwide, as well as textual philology issues, including the literary communication and semiotics.

Course contents

The course is divided into three parts (60 hours of classes for 12 CFU) and classes will start on January 30, 2017. Students who choose the 6 CFU course can attend the firts part of the classes (January 30 - March 6, 2017).

Schedule

Classes will start on January 30, 2017.

Monday, h. 15-17, via Zamboni 38, aula VI

Tuesday, h. 15-17, via Zamboni 38, aula VI

Wednesday, h. 13-15, via Zamboni 38, aula VI

At the end of the course, the student, through the philological reading of some significant texts, has a good knowledge of the main methods and issues of philology and Romance language and literature. The student also has the knowledge of comparative study of a literary genre and linguistic diversity; he develops critical thinking and learns the tools of the publishing practices of modern literary texts.

The course

I part: Romance Philology.

In the first part Teacher will show the principal concepts of the discipline (modern Philology, the Vulgar Latin, history and evolution of Italian and the Romance languages, reading and discussing of the most ancient texts, the method, the manuscript tradition and interpretation, etc. ) along with rudiments of language, metrics and rhetoric.

II part: Beauty and Power – Roman d'Alexandre.

In the second part, based on philological reading of the texts, students will study the earliest forms of modern European novel. Will be analyzed in particular the Romance of Alexander, dedicated to the life and exploits of Alexander the Great, within the framework of the receipt of the classics in the Middle Ages. The text, which is located at the crossroads of legend, epic and novel, is dedicated to the king-hero educated by the philosopher Aristotle: grandiose and controversial character, author of wonderful companies, Alexandre lives between the wonder of knowing and anxiety to win. His story reachs the West thanks to several historical texts (i.e. Plutarch, Curtius Rufus, the pseudo-Callisthenes etc.) and literary texts (like Lucan, Seneca, Cicero, etc.). Alexandre also reach the fantasy of ancient artists (i.e. mosaics of Pompeii Rembrandt, Rubens) and moderns (Dario Fo, Wagner) with his unpublished companies (the climb to the sky, sea diving, the enchanted discovery of the East). During the classes will be examinated the earliest versions in the vernacular language; will be also commented some significant tracks (i.e. tracks of relevant modern texts, of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, up to film expressions and contemporary theater).

III part: The history of literary work – Textual criticism.

Students will learn about problems and methods of medieval textual criticism, with particular regard to the autography.

It's possible, in addiction to the oral examination, to write and deliver a paper on an agreed subject.

At the end of the course students can practice on manuscripts of "Bibilioteca Universitaria di Bologna".

Readings/Bibliography

- Bibliography for attending students

A. A.Varvaro, Il latino e la nascita delle lingue romanze, Bologna, il Mulino, 2014 e Id., Prima lezione di filologia, Bari, Laterza, 2012.

B. Alexandre de Bernay. Il Romanzo di Alessandro a cura di M. Infurna e M. Mancini, Milano, Rizzoli (Classici BUR), 2014. With the aid of A. Roncaglia, La lingua d’oïl. Profilo di grammatica storica, Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 1999. In addiction to these texts students have to read the photocopies made by the Teacher.

Students have also to read:

• M.L.Meneghetti, Il romanzo nel Medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010;

• P. Dronke, Introduzione, in Alessandro nel Medioevo occidentale, Milano, Mondadori-Fondazione Valla, 1997, pp. xv-lxxv

and three of these essays:

• E. Baumgartner, La fortuna di Alessandro nei testi francesi medievali del secolo XII e l'esotismo nel Roman d'Alexandre, Le roman d'Alexandre. Riproduzione del ms. Venezia, Biblioteca Museo Correr, Correr 1493, a cura di R. M. Benedetti, Udine, Vattori, 1998, p. 11-28

• Bendinelli Predelli, La storia di Alessandro Magno nel palazzo Chiaromonte di Palermo, in Prospettiva, XLVI, 1986, pp. 13-21

• R. Benedetti, Codice, allocuzione, volti di un mito, in Le Roman d’Alexandre. Riproduzione del ms. Venezia, Biblioteca Museo Correr 1493, Venezia 1998, pp. 31-53

• C. Bologna, La generosità cavalleresca di Alessandro Magno, in “L’immagine riflessa”, XII (1989), pp. 367-404.

• C. Bologna, Alessandro, il Nodo di Gordio e il viaggio per conquistare Questo Mondo e Quell’Altro, in Medioevo romanzo e orientale. Il viaggio nelle letterature romanze e orientali, 2006, pp. 147-165

• G. Brunetti, Per il Romanzo d'Alessandro in Italia. Due poesie in un manoscritto dell'Historia de preliis (Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, Rep. II.4°.143), in «Quaderni di Filologia romanza dell'Università di Bologna», n. XV (2002), pp. 379-390

• G. Brunetti, Un testimone dei «Voeux du Paon» in Italia, in Studi Mediolatini e volgari, XLVI, 2001, pp. 7-34

• C. Daniotti, Il mito di Alessandro dall’ellenismo al Rinascimento (e oltre), in M. Centanni (a cura di), L’originale assente. Introduzione allo studio della tradizione classica, Milano 2005, pp.165-196

• R. De Cesare, L’«Alexandreida in rima» e l’«Alexandreis» di Gautier de Châtillon, in Medioevo e latinità. In memoria di Ezio Franceschini, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 1993, pp. 111-161

• F. Delle Donne, Una disputa sulla nobiltà alla corte di Federico II di Svevia, in Medioevo Romanzo, XXIII, 1999, pp. 3-20

• E. Fenzi, Seneca e Dante: da Alessandro Magno a Ulisse, in Studi sul canone letterario del Trecento. Per Michelangelo Picone, a c. di Johannes Bartuschat e Luciano Rossi, Ravenna, Longo, 2003, pp. 67-78.

• R. Kloos, Alessandro Magno e Federico II di Svevia, in Atti del Convegno di studi su Federico II. Jesi, 28-29 maggio 1966, Jesi, Biblioteca Comunale, 1976, pp. 83-106

• G. Paradisi, Cesare e l’impero tra mito e storia: il caso dei «Faits des Romains» , in: Mito e storia nella tradizione cavalleresca , Atti del XLII Convegno storico internazionale, Todi, 9-12 ottobre 2005, a cura di AA.VV., Spoleto, CISAM, 2006, pp. 235-266

• P. Rinoldi, La circolazione della materia “alessandrina” in Italia nel Medioevo (coordinate introduttive), in “Quaderni di studi Indo-Mediterranei, I (2008), pp. 11-50

• J-Y. Tilliette, L’Alexandréide de Gautier de Châtillon: Enéide médiévale ou “Virgile travesti”?, in Alexandre le Grand dans les littératures occidentales et procheorientales, 1999, pp. 275-287.

• G. Zaganelli, Alessandro Magno in India: storia di un’epistola e di un’immagine del mondo, in Medioevo romanzo e orientale. Il viaggio dei testi, 1999, pp. 139-153.

*n. b.: A partire da interessi specifici, e per i diversi curricula, può essere concordata col docente la scelta di altri saggi (incentrati ad esempio sulla figura di Alessandro nei testi tardoantichi, in medioaltotedesco, in spagnolo o più specificamente dedicati alla storia dell’arte e all’iconografia alessandrina)

III. G. Brunetti, Autografi francesi medievali, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2013.

- Additional bibliography for non-attending students

I. L. Renzi – A. Andreose, Manuale di linguistica e filologia romanza, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003 oppure

M. L. Meneghetti, Le origini delle letterature romanze medievali, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2006 oppure F. Brugnolo - R. Capelli, Profilo delle letterature romanze medievali, Carocci editore, Roma 2011.

II. P. Gresti (a cura di), Antologia delle letterature romanze del Medioevo, Bologna, Pàtron, 2006 (e ristampe) (lettura e commento integrale);

III. P. G. Beltrami, A che serve un'edizione critica? : leggere i testi della letteratura romanza medievale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010.

Teaching methods

- Lectures and seminars

- Philological reading and commentary of texts, investigated in their historical genesis and transmission

- Discussion of the methods, assumptions and different interpretations of the main critical lines

- Students can apply for specific bibliographies and specially set up laboratories. There will be individual tutoring.

Assessment methods

- Oral examination

- The student must demonstrate, with propriety of language, having studied all the parts of the program

- In the interview, the Teacher will assess the learning outcomes and the critical capacity of the student. The student have to be able to read, comment philologically and interpret literary texts in the program, with clarity and relevance. Will be submitted to the student at least two textual samples among those examined during classes

- If the student has decided to submit a written essay, evaluation will include oral presentation in front of his mates. The Teacher will judge the ability of synthesis, the correct use of language, coherence of argument, as well as contents and form of the paper.

Teaching tools

Paper and digital reproductions of manuscripts, databases, lexicons and instruments for philological research. Lessons can be supported by powerpoint or short movies.

For further informations see the link below

http://www.unibo.it/SitoWebDocente/default.aspx?UPN=giuseppina.brunetti%40unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Brunetti Giuseppina

Links to further information

http://www.unibo.it/SitoWebDocente/default.aspx?UPN=giuseppina.brunetti%40unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Giuseppina Brunetti