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 author corrects himself. The Hesperis by Basinio da Parma
The course aims at illustrating approaches, peculiar problems and questions concerning the critical edition of the humanistic text, taking as an example a work transmitted in manuscripts with the final version and in an autograph manuscript with author’s emendations.
Basinii parmensis poetae opera praestantiora, Rimini 1794; A. Campana, voce "Basinio da Parma" in DBI, 7 (1970); A. Campana, Basinio da PAma, in Scritti, Roma 2008; A. Chisena, Gli "Astronomicon libri" di Basinio da Parma. Edizione critica e commento, tesi dottorale, Università di Firenze, 2016; D. Coppini,Un epillio umanistico fra Omero e Virgilio: il "Diosymposeos liber" di Basinio da Parma, in Confini dell'Umanesimo letterario. Studi in onore di Francesco Tateo, a cura di M. de Nichilo, G. Distaso, A. Iurilli, Roma, Roma nel Rinascimento, 2003, vol. I, pp. 301-336.
Learning Objectives
The course aims at offering to the students the full knowledge of the documented processes of formation of a humanistic work and of the methodologies for critical edition of the text, at introducing an important author and a significant cultural context, at strengthening critical and philological reading skills and the command of language relative to the discipline, and the ability 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 evalued if they have been carried out.
Course program
Basinio da Parma is a prolific and interesting author in his relationship, attested by his works, with the Lord of Rimini, Sigismondo Malatesta, the dedicatee of most of them. The Hesperis is an epic poem in thirteen books that transfigures the condottiere in an epic light, inspired not only by Virgil, but also by Homer (the Basinio’s controversy in favour of the knowledge of Greek with Tommaso Seneca from Camerino and Porcelio Pandoni is well-known). The poem is transmitted by wonderful posthumous manuscripts with illustrations by Giovanni da Fano showing the final form of the text, and by an autograph manuscript with numerous and substantial corrections and glosses. The examination of the documented composition phases of the poem will put students in contact with the concrete development of the poetic creation and the methodology applicable to the critical edition of a work that presents the typical problems related to the transmission of a humanistic text.