30665 - Philology of Italian Literature (LM)

Learning outcomes

The student knows in detail the phenomenology and the problems of Textual Criticism of the Italian literary tradition and is able to use the acquired knowledge of specific textual questions and methodological debate in the context of contemporary philology

Course contents

The making of Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis

 

Readings/Bibliography

Filologia della Letteratura Italiana:

Materials (stats, reproductions, etc.) will be provided during class.
Bibliography:

Ugo Foscolo, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, edizione critica a cura di Giovanni Gambarin, Firenze, Le Monnier, 1955

Mario Martelli, La parte del Sassoli, in “Studi di filologia italiana”, XXVIII, 1970

Ugo Foscolo, Angelo Sassoli, Vera storia di due amanti infelici ossia Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, a cura di P. Fasano, Roma, Bulzoni, 1999

Ugo Foscolo, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis edizione del 1802; Epistolario; introduzione di Anna Modena, Roma, Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, 2004

Maria Antonietta Terzoli, Le prime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2004

Ugo Foscolo, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, introduzione, testo e commento a cura di Maria Antonietta Terzoli, Roma, Carocci, 2012

Ugo Foscolo, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis tratte dagli autografi, introduzione e commento di G. Davico Bonino, Milano, Mondadori, 2016

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons. Lectures and analyses of literary texts.

Assessment methods

The evaluation of the students' competencies and abilities acquired during the course consists of an oral test, i.e. an oral interview which has the aim of evaluating the critical and methodological ability of the students. The students will be invited to discuss the texts on the course programme. The student must demonstrate an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme.

Those students who are able to demonstrate a wide and systematic understanding of the issues covered during the lessons, are able to use these critically and who master the field-specific language of the discipline will be given a mark of excellence. 

Those students who demonstrate a mnemonic knowledge of the subject with a more superficial analytical ability and ability to synthesize, a correct command of the language but not always appropriate, will be given a ‘fair' mark.

A superficial knowledge and understanding of the material, a scarce analytical and expressive ability that is not always appropriate will be rewarded with a pass mark or just above a pass mark. 

Students who demonstrate gaps in their knowledge of the subject matter, inappropriate language use, lack of familiarity with the literature in the programme bibliography will not be given a pass mark.

Office hours

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