B1647 - Humanistic Italian Literature (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2024/2025

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students can: 1) check philological research resources in order to orientate themselves in the critical evaluation of the state of the text of the works of the authors most relevant to our literary panorama between the 4th and 6th centuries; 2) reflect upon the mechanisms of intertextuality and upon the profound ties that bind authors to their readings, original literary works to the volumes of the libraries of the scribes, annotations and marginalia of the author to creative writing; 3) follow the interplay of texts and paratexts, pergamena and incunabula; 4) examine various typologies of commentary as dialogic space between classics and humanists in the 4th and 5th centuries.

Course contents

Humanistic literature between philology and poetry from Petrarch to Bembo

The course is another element of the diptych of teaching ITALIAN MEDIEVAL AND HUMANISTIC LITERATURE AND PHILOLOGY, alongside ITALIAN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE (prof. Marco Veglia), in a path that offers students the keys to understanding the broad horizon of our literature between the XIV and XVI centuries. The first part of the course will be aimed at grasping the philological and literary dialogue that Petrarch and Boccaccio readers and exegetes establish with the classics of Latinity starting from the manuscripts they own and/or annotate; the second part will instead be aimed at highlighting particular fourteenth and sixteenth-century paths of philology, including emendations, editions, and commentaries on the classics, concerning the creative literature in Latin and the vernacular of the authors/readers/exegetes.

Readings/Bibliography

Mandatory texts:

- F. Rico, Ritratti allo specchio: Boccaccio, Petrarca, Antenore, 2012;

- L. Chines, Filigrane. Nuovi tasselli per Petrarca e Boccaccio, Roma-Padova, Antenore-Salerno, 2021;

- C. Del Vento and P. Musitelli (edited by), Gli “scartafacci degli scrittori”. I sentieri della creazione letteraria (secc. XIV-XIX), Roma, Carocci, 2022, part I e part II, (up to p. 142).

Non-attending students are required to additionally prepare the volume M. Berté, M. Petoletti, Filologia medievale e umanistica, il Mulino, 2017 (also recommended for attending students).

During the course the teacher will provide notes and slides. This material will be available on the “Virtuale” platform of her teacher personal website.

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is suggested that they get in touch as soon as possible with the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) and with the lecturer in order to seek together the most effective strategies for following the lessons and/or preparing for the examination.

Teaching methods

Lessons

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 orientate his own knowledge in the literary 'landscape' of the medieval and humanistic culture and to recognize the main philological features of the XIV and XV principal texts under the program, he will receive a negative evaluation;
  • If a student will be able to catch the main aspects of the works and the authors proposed during the course and to recognize the foundamental issues and the peculiar features of the most important works of the humanistic philology and of its main 'characters', he will receive a positive evaluation;
  • If a student will show a deep knowledge of the texts and of the methodological issues of the humanistic philology, he will receive an excellent evaluation.
  • Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is necessary to contact the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) with ample time in advance: the office will propose some adjustments, which must in any case be submitted 15 days in advance to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of these in relation to the teaching objectives.

Teaching tools

Pc, videoproiettore, photocopies.

Office hours

See the website of Loredana Chines