- Docente: Giuseppina Brunetti
- Credits: 12
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition (cod. 0970)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student will acquire knowledge of the romances languages and literatures of the Middle Ages and their formation, with particular regard to French and Provencal. The student will understand relations between poetry and music and he/she will acquire the skills for reading and translating from the original language.
Course contents
12 CFU (Laurea Magistrale in Italianistica, culture letterarie europee, scienze linguistiche)
The course is divided into three parts (60 hours of classes for 12 CFU) and classes will start on October 9, 2017 (timetable: Monday, h. 11-13, via Zamboni 32, aula I; Tuesday, h. 11-13, via Zamboni 32, aula I; Wednesday, h. 11-13, via Zamboni 32, aula I). Students who choose the 6 CFU course and the students of LM in Filologia, letteratura e tradizione classica can attend the first part of the classes (October 9 - December 13, 2017). The course will be like a seminar.
The course
The course does not require prior knowledge of ancient Romance languages. The texts analyzed in class will always be read also in Italian translation; the original texts will be read with the tutor's guide and introduced in such a way as to ensure everyone's understanding. Frequency is strongly recommended. The course is divided into three parts (A, B, C), which correspond to the parts of the bibliography useful for the preparation of the exam:
A. First part: Fundamentals. Classical Philology and Modern Philology. Students will read and comment literary pieces and critical pieces, with particular regard to the types of editions, apparatus, the construction of stemma, and the new methodologies of the issue in the field of Romance Philology.
B. Second part: The Ancients in the Middle Ages: the Classical Novels (Thèbes, Troie, Enéas). Students will learn on an appropriate selection of literary texts (Roman de Troie, History of Regum Britanniae and Roman de Brut, Roman de Thèbes, Roman d'Alexandre, Roman d 'Eneas etc.) which will be read and commented philologically. Students will also learn classical themes, heroes and gestures in medieval forms, with findings, as well as in Dante and his commentators, especially in the work of Petrarca and Boccaccio. The chosen perspective of receiving and transmitting classical texts will also lead to a philological inquiry on the genesis and survival of topics that will also come to forms of modern and contemporary literature.
C. Third part: Problems of the transmission of medieval texts. Students will learn about problems and methods of medieval texts Philology, with particular attention to the autography of the works of s. Francesco d’Assisi, Giovanni Boccaccio, Michelangelo, Leopardi, Ungaretti, and fr. Angier, Matthew Paris, Jean Gerson, and Stendhal, Proust.It is possible, in addiction to the oral examination, to write and submit a paper on an agreed subject. At the end of the course students can practice on manuscripts of Bibilioteca Universitaria di Bologna.
Schedule
Classes will start on October 9, 2017.
Monday, h. 11-13, via Zamboni 32, aula I
Tuesday, h. 11-13, via Zamboni 32, aula I
Wednesday, h. 11-13, via Zamboni 32, aula I
6 CFU (Laurea Magistrale in Filologia, letteratura e tradizione classica)
The course is divided into two parts (30 hours of classes for 6 CFU) and classes will start on October 9, 2017 (timetable: Monday, h. 11-13, via Zamboni 32, aula I; Tuesday, h. 11-13, via Zamboni 32, aula I; Wednesday, h. 11-13, via Zamboni 32, aula I).
The course
The course does not require prior knowledge of ancient Romance languages. The texts analyzed in class will always be read also in Italian translation; the original texts will be read with the tutor's guide and introduced in such a way as to ensure everyone's understanding. Frequency is strongly recommended. The course is divided into two parts (A, B), which correspond to the parts of the bibliography useful for the preparation of the exam:
A. First part: The Ancients in the Middle Ages: the Classical Novels (Thèbes, Troie, Enéas). Students will learn on an appropriate selection of literary texts (Roman de Troie, History of Regum Britanniae and Roman de Brut, Roman de Thèbes, Roman d'Alexandre, Roman d 'Eneas etc.) which will be read and commented philologically. Students will also learn classical themes, heroes and gestures in medieval forms, with findings, as well as in Dante and his commentators, especially in the work of Petrarca and Boccaccio. The chosen perspective of receiving and transmitting classical texts will also lead to a philological inquiry on the genesis and survival of topics that will also come to forms of modern and contemporary literature.
B. Second part: Classical Philology and Modern Philology. Students will read and comment literary pieces and critical pieces, with particular regard to the types of editions, apparatus, the construction of stemma, and the new methodologies of the issue in the field of Romance Philology. Students will also learn about problems and methods of medieval texts Philology, with particular attention to the autography of the works of s. Francesco d’Assisi, Giovanni Boccaccio, Michelangelo, Leopardi, Ungaretti, and fr. Angier, Matthew Paris, Jean Gerson, and Stendhal, Proust.
It is possible, in addiction to the oral examination, to write and submit a paper on an agreed subject. At the end of the course students can practice on manuscripts of Bibilioteca Universitaria di Bologna.
Schedule
Classes will start on October 9, 2017.
Monday, h. 11-13, via Zamboni 32, aula I
Tuesday, h. 11-13, via Zamboni 32, aula I
Wednesday, h. 11-13, via Zamboni 32, aula I
Readings/Bibliography
Bibliography for attending students (12 CFU)
Attending students will prepare the final exam following this bibliography with the support of materials and notes provided in class:
A. A collection of handouts edited by the Professor (printed by Bonomo editore-Bologna, in hard copy and e-book) and: A. Varvaro, Critica dei testi classica e romanza. Problemi comuni ed esperienze diverse, in Rendiconti dell’Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti di Napoli, XLV (1970), p. 73-117; R. Antonelli, Interpretazione e critica del testo, in Letteratura italiana, dir. da Alberto Asor Rosa, vol. 4: L'interpretazione, Torino, Einaudi, 1985, pp. 141-243; G. Brunetti, L’edizione critica delle liriche medievali: considerazioni dall’Italia, in «Perspectives médiévales». Revue de la Société des Langues et Littératures Médiévales d’Oc et d’Oïl: Les textes médiévaux face à l’édition scientifique contemporaine: quels enjeux épistémologiques? Textes rassemblés par Sébastien Douchet, in «Perspectives médiévales», 34 (2012), pp. 2-14.
B. Il Medioevo degli antichi : i romanzi francesi della triade classica a cura di Alfonso D'Agostino, Milano, Mimesis, 2013 (i testi in francese antico saranno letti col sussidio di A. Roncaglia, La lingua d’oïl. Profilo di grammatica storica, Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 1999) e due saggi a scelta fra quelli qui elencati:
• G.C. Alessio-C. Villa, Il nuovo fascino degli autori antichi tra i secoli XII e XIV, in Lo spazio letterario del Medio Evo, vol. III, 1990, pp. 473-511;
• G. Brunetti- S. Gentili, Una biblioteca nella Firenze di Dante: i manoscritti di Santa Croce, in Testimoni del vero. Su alcuni libri in biblioteche di autore a cura di E. Russo, Roma, Bulzoni, 2000, pp. 21-55;
• G. Brunetti, L’Antiquité partagée: la tente historiée du païen Agolant dans la “Chanson d’Aspremont” franco-italienne, in In limine Romaniae: Chanson de geste et épopée européenne. Carlos Alvar et Constance Carta (éds.). XVIIIe Congrès, International Rencesvals- Universitè de Genève, Faculté des Lettres (Genève, 20-24 juillet 2009), Bern-Berlin- Bruxelles. Frankfurt a. M.-New York-Oxford-Wien, Peter Lang, 2012, pp. 151-174
• G. Brunetti, Gli autografi nella letteratura italiana delle Origini, in “Di mano propria”. Gli autografi dei letterati italiani, Atti del Convegno internazionale (Centro Pio Rajna - Forlì, Fondazione Garzanti, 24-26 novembre 2008) a cura di G. Baldassarri-M. Motolese-P. Procaccioli-E. Russo, Roma, Salerno Editrice 2010, pp. 61-92
• G. Brunetti, Lucano, i libri di Dante e un ritrovato sonetto di Petrarca (RVF 102), in «Studi e problemi di critica testuale», 90, 1 (2015), pp. 55-71.
• G.B. Conte, Memoria dei poeti e arte allusiva, in Memoria dei poeti e sistema letterario. Catullo Virgilio Lucano, Torino 1974
• M. Mazza, “Historia fabularis”: le relazioni pericolose di Clio nella tarda Antichità, in Storiografia e poesia nella cultura medievale (1999), pp. 1-22.
• C. Segre, Critica genetica e studi sulle fonti, in Genesi, critica, edizione (1998), pp. 39-48
C. G. Brunetti, Autografi francesi medievali, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2013.
Additional bibliography for non-attending students (12 CFU)
Non-attending students will prepare the final exam following the previous bibliography with the support of these additional readings:
I. P. Beltrami, La filologia romanza, Bologna, il Mulino, 2017 oppure M. Barbato, Le lingue romanze. Profilo storico-comparativo, Bari, Laterza, 2017.
II. P. Gresti (a cura di), Antologia delle letterature romanze del Medioevo, Bologna, Pàtron, 2011 (integralmente) e la lettura del classico: E. Auerbach, Lingua letteraria e pubblico nella tarda antichità latina e nel Medioevo, Feltrinelli, Milano 1960.
III. P. G. Beltrami, A che serve un'edizione critica?: leggere i testi della letteratura romanza medievale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010.
Bibliography for attending students (6 CFU)
Attending students will prepare the final exam following this bibliography with the support of materials and notes provided in class:
A. A collection of handouts edited by the Professor (printed by Bonomo editore-Bologna, in hard copy and e-book) and: A. Varvaro, Critica dei testi classica e romanza. Problemi comuni ed esperienze diverse, in Rendiconti dell’Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti di Napoli, XLV (1970), p. 73-117; G. Brunetti, Autografi francesi medievali, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2013.
B. Il Medioevo degli antichi: i romanzi francesi della triade classica a cura di Alfonso D'Agostino, Milano, Mimesis, 2013 (The text A. Roncaglia, La lingua d’oïl. Profilo di grammatica storica, Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 1999 will provide students the tools to study Langue d'oil poems) and two essays among these following:
G.C. Alessio-C. Villa, Il nuovo fascino degli autori antichi tra i secoli XII e XIV, in Lo spazio letterario del Medio Evo, vol. III, 1990, pp. 473-511; G. Brunetti- S. Gentili, Una biblioteca nella Firenze di Dante: i manoscritti di Santa Croce, in Testimoni del vero. Su alcuni libri in biblioteche di autore a cura di E. Russo, Roma, Bulzoni, 2000, pp. 21-55; G. Brunetti, L’Antiquité partagée: la tente historiée du païen Agolant dans la “Chanson d’Aspremont” franco-italienne, in In limine Romaniae: Chanson de geste et épopée européenne. Carlos Alvar et Constance Carta (éds.). XVIIIe Congrès, International Rencesvals- Universitè de Genève, Faculté des Lettres (Genève, 20-24 juillet 2009), Bern-Berlin- Bruxelles. Frankfurt a. M.-New York-Oxford-Wien, Peter Lang, 2012, pp. 151-174; G. Brunetti, Gli autografi nella letteratura italiana delle Origini, in “Di mano propria”. Gli autografi dei letterati italiani, Atti del Convegno internazionale (Centro Pio Rajna - Forlì, Fondazione Garzanti, 24-26 novembre 2008) a cura di G. Baldassarri-M. Motolese-P. Procaccioli-E. Russo, Roma, Salerno Editrice 2010, pp. 61-92; G. Brunetti, Lucano, i libri di Dante e un ritrovato sonetto di Petrarca (RVF 102), in «Studi e problemi di critica testuale», 90, 1 (2015), pp. 55-71; G.B. Conte, Memoria dei poeti e arte allusiva, in Memoria dei poeti e sistema letterario. Catullo Virgilio Lucano, Torino 1974; M. Mazza, “Historia fabularis”: le relazioni pericolose di Clio nella tarda Antichità, in Storiografia e poesia nella cultura medievale (1999), pp. 1-22.; C. Segre, Critica genetica e studi sulle fonti, in Genesi, critica, edizione (1998), pp. 39-48.
Additional bibliography for non-attending students (6 CFU)
Non-attending students will prepare the final exam following the previous bibliography with the support of these additional readings:
I. P. Beltrami, La filologia romanza, Bologna, il Mulino, 2017 oppure M. Barbato, Le lingue romanze. Profilo storico-comparativo, Bari, Laterza, 2017.
II. P. Gresti (a cura di), Antologia delle letterature romanze del Medioevo, Bologna, Pàtron, 2011 (the entire book) e la lettura del classico: E. Auerbach, Lingua letteraria e pubblico nella tarda antichità latina e nel Medioevo, Feltrinelli, Milano 1960.
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 command of language, they have studied all the parts of the program.
- In the interview, the Professor 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. The student will be provided with at least two textual samples among those examined during classes.
- Along with the historical understanding of the text and in particular of the literary genre studied, the student will have to demonstrate competence in methods and problems of romance philology, comparative argumentation skills, and good command of the specific vocabulary of modern editorial practice.
- If the student has decided to submit a written essay, evaluation will include oral presentation in front of his mates. The Professor will judge the ability of synthesis, the correct use of language, coherence of argument, as well as contents and form of the paper (submitted ten days before the oral presentation).
- The oral exam will be divided in: 1. Development of a topic covered in Part I. Fundamentals of Romance Philology; 2. Reading and commenting of one or two texts studied in class; 3. Development of a topic covered in Part III. Textual Criticism with discussion of the chosen essays.
Evaluation parameters:
- Insufficient vote: absence or strong lack of basic knowledge and lack of the ability to read and analyse texts;
- Sufficient vote (18): possession of basic notions and sufficient understanding of the texts;
- Positive vote (from 19 to 25): possession of intermediate level of knowldge; correct but not thorough ability in reading texts, sufficient capacity of connection between the different contents, essentially correct expression but with some imprecisions;
- More than positive vote (from 26 to 28): possessing good and articulated knowledge; correct language; discrete critical ability;
- Excellent vote (from 29 to 30L): possessing more than good knowledge; precision, maturity of expression and in-depth analysis; great autonomy in data re-elaboration and the ability to connect content; critical ability and mastery in reading, translation and philological commentary texts. Honours will be given only to students who will demonstrate a complete and solid knowledge of the program, critical ability, autonomy and brilliant and organic exposure of acquired knowledge.
Teaching tools
Paper and digital reproductions of manuscripts, databases, lexicons and instruments for philological research. Lessons can be supported by powerpoint or short movies.
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Office hours
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Office hours
See the website of Giuseppina Brunetti