00603 - Latin Language and Literature

Learning outcomes

 The course is aimed at introducing the student to the study of the latin literaries sources, through the knowledge of the main traditional and digital research tools (bibliographical, textual and iconographical databases of the classical and medieval Latin world). The course will pay particular attention to the relationship beween culture and society and persistence of themes in European culture.

Course contents

The course is splitted in two modules:
1. An introduction to research tools: new digital and traditional tools for bibliographic research and lexicographical analysis of greek and latin texts. Brief guides will be supplied at lesson and will be available online.
2. Horace's permanence in the literary, proverbial and iconographical tradition (for instance of the proverbial expression Epicuri de grege porcus).

Readings/Bibliography

1. Introduction to the research tools: specific matherial material will be available in printed form and will be circulated during lessons, and will also be available online: see www2.classics.unibo.it/Didattica/LatBC/info.
In particular the following tools will be examinated:
bibliographical researches (e.g. Dyabola, Année Philologique, Gnomon, Tocs-In, MLA Bibliography).
digital libraries (e.g., Gallica o Google Books, JSTOR)
latin literature databases (e.g. BTL, CLCLT, EMGH, PHI5, PLD, Poeti d'Italia in Lingua Latina, PoetriaNova, ThlL, Trattati del Rinascimento),
latin epigraphical databases (see www2.classics.unibo.it/Didattica/LatBC/Epigrafia.htm)
italian literature databases (LIZ, Biblioteca italiana),
Emblemata's digital collections.
2. Horace's permanence: texts: Orazio, Tutte le opere, a c. di Luca Canali e Marco Beck, Milano, Mondadori (I classici collezione), 2007, oppure M. Scaffidi Abbate, Roma, Newton & Compton, 1992. Further texts will be supplied at lesson.
Essays: F.Citti, Epicuri de grege porcus. Variazioni su un tema oraziano, Bologna, Pàtron (in corso di stampa); F. Nanni, Orazio negli Adagia di Erasmo da Rotterdam, «Eikasmos» 17, 2006, 391-422 (disponibile nel sito  http://www2.classics.unibo.it/Eikasmos/eik_pdf/2006/Nanni_06.pdf); da Orazio. Enciclopedia oraziana , Roma., IEI, voci Arti figurative , vol. III, pp. 679-690; La Fontaine, vol. III, pp. 303-304; Pascoli, vol. III, pp. 390-397.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons;
Interactive lessons; amending  exercises and students' works (above all for seminars);
Laboratory (for learning the use of informatic tools for classical languages).

Assessment methods

An oral exam will verify:
- knowledge of the principal traditional and digital research tools examinated at lesson;
- skill to start and arrange a research on the classical texts  and their tradition;
- skill to critically discuss the texts and essays in the programme.

Teaching tools

1. Online teaching materials: (see above for the address); the same material will be available also in printed form and will be circulated during lessons;
2. Seminars (in Dismec's Lab) will focus on informatic resouces for bibliographic research and text analysis.

Links to further information

http://www2.classics.unibo.it/Didattica/LatBC/latbc.htm

Office hours

See the website of Francesco Citti