STORIA E TRADIZIONE DEI CLASSICI ITALIANI

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to 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 ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments 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 carry out research autonomously.

Special objectives:

Knowledge of stylistic and material features of the 14^th century Italian poetry and of its manuscript tradition, particularly in relation to Petrarch’s works.

Knowledge of the basic elements of literary lexicography and of the main problems involved in the creation of concordances and data bases related to the 19^th and 20^th century Italian poetry.

Ability to apply the critical and lexicographic methodologies to the reading and interpretation of the genesis of literary works.

A The philological studies in Italy: historic outlines and methodologies. (1 ECTS)

B The last poems of Petrarch’s Canzoniere: phylological problems and textual interpretation. (2 ECTS)

C Philology and (self)comment in 20^th century Italian poetry: Giuseppe Ungaretti’s La Terra Promessa. (2 ECTS)

D Literary lexicography, concordances and data bases. Applications to 20^th century Italian poetry. (1 ECTS)

A (1 CFU)

- 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. Brambilla Ageno, L’edizione critica dei testi volgari. Seconda edizione riveduta e ampliata, Padova, Antenore, 1984, pp. 197-279;

- 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 (2 CFU)

- Riproduzioni di manoscritti ed edizioni (disponibili su http://studium.unict.it);

- F. Petrarca, Canzoniere (un’edizione commentata a scelta), nn. 336-366:

- F. Petrarca, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. Edizione critica di Giuseppe Savoca, Firenze, Olschki, 2008, pp. V-XXI e 541-597;

- G. Savoca, Il Canzoniere di Petrarca tra Codicologia ed ecdotica, Firenze, Olschki, 2008, pp. 1-95, 131-177 e 201-227 (capp. I-III, V e VII).

C (2 CFU)

- G. Ungaretti, Vita d’un uomo. Tutte le poesie. A cura e con un saggio introduttivo di C. Ossola, Milano, Mondadori, 2009, pp. 279-294 (testo), 670-675 (varianti), 777-798 (nota dell’autore), 1027-1056 (commento);

- L. Piccioni, Le origini della «Terra Promessa», in G. Ungaretti, Vita d’un uomo, cit., pp. 1305-1341;

- M. Petrucciani, Il condizionale di Didone. Studi su Ungaretti, Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1985 (capitoli scelti dal docente, per complessive 100 pp. circa) ;

- M. Brose, Ungaretti e l’autocommento : «La Terra Promessa» come Harmonium, in «Critica del testo», n. 2, 2001, pp. 431-459;

-  M. C. Papini, Lettura del «Recitativo di Palinuro» di Giuseppe Ungaretti, in «La Modernità Letteraria», n. 1, 2008, pp. 109-119.

D (1 CFU)

- G. Savoca, Lessicografia letteraria e metodo concordanziale, Firenze, Olschki, 2000, pp. 7-61, 185-193, 263-283;

There will be an in itinere test on the topics of modules A and B, the passing of which will result in the student preparing for the oral interview only modules C and D.

The mastery of the content and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical property, as well as the argumentative ability demonstrated by the candidate will be taken into account in the assessment of the examination.

Philology in Italy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Linguistics and philology in Italy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Barbi and the 'new' philology.

Philological problems of the Petrarchan Canzoniere.

Reading of the apparatus of the critical edition of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta.

Paleographic characters of the Vat. Lat. 3195.

Reading and commentary on Compositions 336-366 of the Canzoniere.

Reading and commentary on the Promised Land texts.

Variants of the texts and comments by the author.

Ungaretti and self-commentary.