ITALIAN LITERATURE PHILOLOGY

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.

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)

C

- L. Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal, edited by A. Sichera and A. Di Silvestro (text, Premessa and Storia del fu Mattia Pascal) ;

- the reproduction and edition of the manuscript (readable on the site https://www.pirandellonazionale.it/hyperedizione-il-fu-mattia-pascal/);

- N. Borsellino, Il manoscritto del «Mattia Pascal», in Ritratto e immagini di Pirandello, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1993, pp. 167-183 ;

- A. Sichera, Ecce Homo ! Nomi, cifre e figure di Pirandello, Firenze, Olschki, 2005, pp. 161-185.

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