92938 - Methodology of Philological Research (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)

Learning outcomes

Through the comparative study of handbooks of Italian philology, the course will examine the instruments of ecdotic applied to Italian literature. During the course will be examined in particular catalogues, rhyming dictionaries, indexes, archives, philological reviews, collections of texts, ancient and modern literary histories, in order to train the students to a philological perspective not extemporaneous but systematic and in-depth.

Course contents

The Course includes two sections: the first section (Section a) will provide a deepening of the Italian Philological method (10 hours); the second section (Section b) will focus on Giovanni Pascoli teaching activity (Bologna, 1906-1907), with the analytical examination of the author manuscripts, to then retrace the necessaries phases to their critical edition. (20 hours).

Readings/Bibliography

Section a: Philological method.

Bruno Bentivogli, Francesca Florimbii, Paola Vecchi Galli, Filologia italiana. Seconda edizione, Milano, Pearson, 2021.

Section b: Author philology.

Giovanni Pascoli, Per Giosue Carducci. Lezioni disperse, ed. by Francesca Florimbii, Bologna, Pàtron, 2013.

Non-attending students will have to complete the program with the study of Giovanni Capecchi, Voci dal “nido” infranto. Studi e documenti pascoliani, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2011.

Teaching methods

The Course is organized in fifteen frontal lessons of two hours that will be held during the first semester of the Academic Year 2021-2022 (second period). It primarily concerns the deepening of theoretical and methodological elements of the critical edition. In the second part of the Course, the methodological knowledge will be applied to the study of Pascoli's university lessons in the academic year 1906-1907.

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

The examination involves the knowledge of the Philological methodology applied to Italian Literature, with analysis of texts to verify aspects and methods of a modern critical edition.

During the examination will be valued the capacity to elaborate a methodological and critical discourse related to Giovanni Pascoli's teaching activity. 

Teaching tools

Frontal lessons, including oral and written applications. The teacher is to disposition, in the hours of reception and after the lessons, to furnish papers or further elucidations on the examination and the program.

Office hours

See the website of Francesca Florimbii

SDGs

Quality education

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.