ITALIAN LITERATURE PHILOLOGY

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: LIBORIO PIETRO BARBARINO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Knowledge of the methodologies of philological research and ability to orientate oneself in the problems especially of author philology.

Ability to reflect on the genesis of works and to independently identify the most significant elements for textual and philological analysis.

Ability to apply acquired knowledge and methodologies to the textual and philological analysis of other texts of Italian literature.

Acquisition of the ability to understand literary texts and to write short scientific texts.

Course Structure

Lectures; exercises and workshop activities.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

A Elements of textual criticism (2 CFU) (Prof. A. Di Silvestro)

B Genesis and variants evolution of Leopardi’s Canti. A comparison between the main critical editions (3 CFU) (Prof. A. Di Silvestro)

C Genesis and composition of Pirandello’s Il fu Mattia Pascal: from the manuscripts to the printed editions (2 CFU). (Prof.ssa M. Grasso)

D Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi by Cesare Pavese: philological and hermeneutic questions of a successful posthumous edition. (Prof. L.P. Barbarino)

Textbook Information

D

- C. Pavese, L’opera poetica, Milano, Mondadori, 2021, pp. V-XXXVIII, LXI-LXV, 191-218, 1288-1298.

- Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti, Pavese: la voce e lo sguardo, in Roberto Mosena, a cura di, Ritorno a Pavese, Edilazio, Roma, 2010, pp. 9-37;

- Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti, L’eroe della tragedia. Pavese e il “Diario”, in Cesare Pavese: un classico del XX secolo (1908-2008), «Cuadernos de Filología Italiana», volumen extraordinario, 2011, pp. 33-48.

- I. Calvino, Poesie edite e inedite, Einaudi, Torino, 1962, pp. 222-223, 251-254;

- M. Guglielminetti, Racconto e canto nella metrica di Pavese, in «Sigma», 3-4, 1964, pp. 22-33.

Further texts, approximately 30 pp., will be provided to students on the platform Studium.

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
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