Course teached as: B004042 - FILOLOGIA MEDIEVALE E UMANISTICA Second Cycle Degree in MODERN PHILOLOGY Curriculum LINGUISTICA STORICA, TEORICA, E APPLICATA
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course aims at illustrating approaches, peculiar problems and questions concerning the critical edition of the humanistic text taking as an example the work in progress on poems by one of the main representatives of the fifteenth century humanistic culture.
P. Orvieto, Poliziano, Roma, Salerno, 2009; M. Martelli, Angelo Poliziano. Stria e metastoria, Lecce, Conte, 1995; Agnolo Poliziano poeta scrittore filologo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Montepulciano 3 - 6 novembre 1994, a cura di V. Fera- M. Martelli, Firenze, Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1998; Isidoro Del Lungo, Prose volgari inedite e poesie latine e greche edite e inedite di Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano, Firenze, Barbera, 1867; A. Perosa, Contributi e proposte per la pubblicazione delle opere latine del Poliziano; Studi sulla tradizione delle poesie latine del Poliziano, in Id., Studi di filologia umanistica, I, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2000, pp. 3-45; I. Maier, Ange Politien. La formation d’un poète humaniste, Genève, Droz, 1966; P.O. Kristeller, Iter italicum et alia itinera: a Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, London: The Warburg Institute; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1963.
Further bibliographical indications will be provided during the course.
Learning Objectives
The course aims at providing students with a full knowledge of the modern critical methodologies concerning humanistic text’s composition and edition acquainting them with a work in progress, at an in-depth studying of both a great author and significant texts, at illustrating the relationship with the classical tradition, at strengthening critical and philological reading skills, the command of language in relation to the historical context terminology and the ability to think critically and to easily find and use bibliographical tools.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Latin.
Teaching Methods
Lectures, seminar meetings, number of students permitting.
Further information
The use of informatic instruments could be useful.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination. Written accounts will be evaluated if they have been carried out.
Course program
For the critical edition of Poliziano’s Epigrammata
The course aims at illustrating approaches, peculiar problems and questions concerning the critical edition of the humanistic text taking as an example the work in progress on poems by one of the main representatives of the fifteenth century humanistic culture. In particular the reliability of the edition princeps (Venezia 1498) will be assessed, the texts of the printed edition will be collated with those of the manuscript tradition, and former studies and works (in particular those of Del Lungo e Perosa) will be examined.