Italian Philology (2013/2014)

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Course code
4S00846
Name of lecturer
Michelangelo Zaccarello
Coordinator
Michelangelo Zaccarello
Number of ECTS credits allocated
9
Academic sector
L-FIL-LET/13 - PHILOLOGY OF ITALIAN LITERATURE
Language of instruction
Italian
Location
VERONA
Period
II semestre dal Feb 24, 2014 al May 31, 2014.

Lesson timetable

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing the methodological grounds to evaluate textual transmission and build a modern critical edition; alongside with a brief history of the various forms of text production and diffusion, the course will introduce the main criteria of text reconstruction and restoration and explain their linguistic implications.

Syllabus

Textual theory and editorial technique

The course is taken as a whole; however, its programme is divided in three sections for illustration purposes only.

I section: Textual scholarship: introductory aspects [18 hours = 3 CFU]

B. BENTIVOGLI-P. VECCHI GALLI, Filologia italiana, Milano, B. Mondadori, 2002.

A. STUSSI (a cura di), Fondamenti di critica testuale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.

II section: Origins and development of editorial theory [18 ore = 3 CFU]

S. TIMPANARO, La genesi del metodo del Lachmann, con una presentazione e una postilla di Elio Montanari, Torino, UTET, 2003.

III section: Editing multiple texts: songbooks, miscellanies, anthologies

AA. VV., Liber, fragmenta, libellus: prima e dopo Petrarca, Firenze, SISMEL-Ed. del Galluzzo, 2006 http://www.sismel.it/tidetails.asp?hdntiid=987 (selected essays)

M. ZACCARELLO, “Reperta”. Indagini recuperi ritrovamenti di letteratura italiana antica, Verona, Fiorini, 2008 (capitoli V-VI).

NB. Non-attendees must also read:

M. ZACCARELLO, “Reperta”. Indagini recuperi ritrovamenti di letteratura italiana antica, Verona, Fiorini, 2008 (chapters I-IV, VII-X).

AA. VV., Liber, fragmenta, libellus: prima e dopo Petrarca, Firenze, SISMEL-Ed. del Galluzzo, 2006 http://www.sismel.it/tidetails.asp?hdntiid=987 (whole)

Assessment methods and criteria

The exam will be taken as a viva.

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