HISTORY AND TRADITION OF ITALIAN CLASSICS AND WORKSHOP

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Antonio DI SILVESTRO

Expected Learning Outcomes

1) knowledge and understanding skills that reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and/or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and problem-solving skills to new or unfamiliar topics, set in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study

3) ability to integrate knowledge and make judgements on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors

5) ability to pursue research independently.

 

Specific objectives:

- Knowledge of the formal and material aspects and the manuscript tradition of 14th century poetry, with particular attention to the work of Petrarch.

 - Knowledge of the fundamentals of literary lexicography and of the theoretical and practical problems linked to the realisation of concordances of poetic texts and databases of nineteenth/nineteenth-century Italian poetry.

- Ability to apply ecdotic and lexicographic methodologies to the reading and interpretation of works and their genesis.

- Ability to extend the acquired methodologies to the philological analysis and interpretation of other texts of Italian literature.

Course Structure

Lectures; exercises and laboratory activities.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory.

Detailed Course Content

A The philological studies in Italy: historic outlines and methodologies. (2 ECTS)

B The Codice degli abbozzi (Vat. Lat. 3196) of Petrarca. (2 ECTS)

C The philological problem of Tasso’s poems: the Rime amorose (1 ECTS)

Textbook Information

A The philological studies in Italy: historic outlines and methodologies. (2 ECTS)

- B. Bentivogli – P. Vecchi Galli, Filologia italiana, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2002, pp. 9-40 (Sezione storica : la filologia in Italia) ;

- M. Barbi, La nuova filologia e l’edizione dei nostri scrittori da Dante al Manzoni, Firenze, Le Lettere, 1994, Introduzione, pp. VII-XLI ;

- F. Bausi, La filologia italiana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2023, pp. 92-101, 123-129, 233-261 e 331-339 ;

- S. Timpanaro, Stemmi bipartiti e perturbazioni della tradizione manoscritta, in Fondamenti di critica testuale, a cura di A. Stussi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1998, pp. 131-166 ;

- P. Stoppelli, L’arte del filologo in 15 punti (a uso dei giovani adepti), in «Prassi ecdotiche della Modernità Letteraria», n. 7, 2022, pp. 7.

 

B The Codice degli abbozzi (Vat. Lat. 3196) of Petrarca. (2 ECTS)

- Riproduzioni del manoscritto (disponibili su http://studium.unict.it);

- F. Petrarca, Canzoniere (an annotated edition, for compositions referring to the text below plus nos. 336-366);

- Il Codice Vaticano Latino 3196, edited by di L. Paolino, in F. Petrarca, Trionfi, Rime estravaganti, Codice degli abbozzi, edited by V. Pacca e L. Paolino. Introduction by M. Santagata, Milano, Mondadori, 1996, pp. 757-768, 775-776, 782-786, 799, 809, 811-812, 814, 831, 882-889;

- F. Petrarca, Triumphus Eternitatis, ivi, pp. 505-538;

- G. Savoca, Il Canzoniere di Petrarca tra Codicologia ed ecdotica, Firenze, Olschki, 2008, pp. 1-95 (capp. I-III);

- A. Pancheri, Il “Codice degli abbozzi di Francesco Petrarca”, in Gli “scartafacci degli scrittori”. I sentieri della creazione letteraria in Italia (secc. XIV-XIX), edited by C. Del Vento e P. Musitelli, Roma, Carocci, 2022, pp. 89-122.

 

C The philological problem of Tasso’s poems: the Rime amorose (1 ECTS)

- T. Tasso, Le rime, edited by B. Basile, Roma, Salerno, 1994, pp. 1-214;

- C. Gigante, Tasso, Roma, Salerno, 2007, pp. 309-333;

- F. Gavazzeni – V. Martignone, Per l’edizione delle “Rime”, in «Studi tassiani», 2001-2002, pp. 133-158.  

 

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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