72414 - Italian Literature and Philology (1) (LM)

Course contents

The Course includes, with frontal lessons, an introduction to  textual criticism, founded on the study of two guides and the analysis of  recent critical editions of  Italian Literature, with particular attention to the tradition of the literary works in Italy (see Recommended Reading).

The frontal lessons will focus  on Petrarch' s Rime disperse (30 hours), with the examination, in analytical form, of some poems. Finally, the Teacher  will propose a comparison  between the Rime disperse and  the Canzoniere of Petrarca.  

Readings/Bibliography

The program is articulated in three sections.

Section 1: Notions and examples of Philology of the Italian literature.

The methodological part consists in the study of the guide of B. Bentivogli and P. Vecchi, Filologia italiana, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2002; and of the guide of Paola Italia e Giulia Raboni, Che cos'è la filologia d'autore, Roma, Carocci, 2010.
  

Section 2: Petrarca and the Rime disperse: an attributive question.

Texts: .
Selected poems from the Canzoniere of Petrarca,  in an commented edition   (like M. Santagata, Milano, Mondadori, 2004, or P. Vecchi, Milano, BUR-ADI 2012). Selected poems from Rime disperse di Francesco Petrarca o a lui attribuite,  on line, ed. by di Angelo Solerti, Firenze, Sansoni, 1909;  Paola Vecchi Galli, Padri, Roma-Padova, Antenore, 2012.

Section 3: A Textual Edition of an Italian Literary work.

Assessment methods

Oral examination.The examination involves  the knowledge of Philological theory applied to Italian Literature, with analysis of texts to verify  aspects and  methods of the contemporary critical edition.  The study of the critical problem of Petrarch's Rime disperse is accompanied by a comment of some poems from the Canzoniere: therefore  the examination will verify the ability of critical analysis and the attitude to elaborate a methodological and interpretative discourse on the poetry of Petrarch.

Teaching tools

Frontal lessons (30 hours) and a weekly seminar,  to deepen documentary and bibliographical aspects of the program.

Office hours

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