Course teached as: B024761 - FILOLOGIA MEDIEVALE E UMANISTICA Second Cycle Degree in MODERN PHILOLOGY Curriculum INTERNAZIONALE IN STUDI SUL RINASCIMENTO EUROPEO
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course aims to test a critical methodology through the illustration of procedures and peculiar problems related to the edition of the humanistic text through the examination of an unpublished work transmitted in manuscripts and ancient printed editions.
The text examined during the course is unpublished, but some manuscripts are available on line.
G. Resta, L’epistolario del Panormita. Studi per una edizione critica, Messina 1954.
G. Resta, Beccadelli Antonio detto il Panormita, in Dizionario critico della letteratura italiana, Torino 1974, pp. 240-244.
C. Griggio, Dalla lettera all'epistolario.Aspetti retorico-formali dell'epistolografia umanistica, in Alla lettera.Teorie e pratiche epistolari dai Greci al Novecento, Milano 1998, pp. 83-107
D. Coppini, Petrarca, le epistole, gli umanisti, in Petrarca, l’Umanesimo e la civiltà europea, «Quaderni Petrarcheschi», 2005-2006 e 2007-2008), I (= «Quaderni Petrarcheschi», 2005-2006), 2012, pp. 517-535.
Furthermore, for those who have not developed skills in the discipline:
Alessandro Perosa, Critica congetturale e testi umanistici, in Studi di filologia umanistica, II. Il Quattrocento fiorentino, a cura di P. Viti, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2000, pp. 1-40.
Paola Italia – Giulia Raboni, Che cos’è la filologia d’autore, Roma, Carocci, 2010.
Monica Berté – Marco Petoletti, La filologia medievale e umanistica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge: This course aims to provide advanced knowledge of a critical methodology applied to the work of an important author of a significant cultural context.
Skills
- Awareness of the documented processes of formation of a humanistic work and of the methodologies related to the corresponding critical constitution of the text.
-Critical and philological reading ability and terminological propierty of the discipline.
- Aptitude for synthesis and agility in the retrieval and use of bibliographic tools.
- Knowledge of humanistic Latin.
- Knowledge of the development of a literary genre.
- Knowledge of an important author of the fifteenth century.
Behaviour:
- Students are encouraged to make intelligent use of the university structure and course, as well as orientation and academic career management tools;
- Students are encouraged to participate intellectually and benefit from a proper approach to the student-professor relationship;
- Students are encouraged to share and make responsible use of the study resources provided by the course and faculty.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Latin.
Teaching Methods
Lectures; seminar meetings, number of students permitting. Lectures include partial use of computer tools.
Students are encouraged to actively participate and to ask questions and further clarifications, even during the office hours.
Further information
Students are reminded that attendance at two thirds of the lectures is compulsory. Only part-time students who do not attend lectures are eligible for alternative examination procedures. These students must contact the professor at the beginning of the course to establish a specific study plan.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination; written accounts will be evalued if they have been carried out. The exam is oral for all students, even those who do not attend lectures and exchange students (Erasmus and other programmes). The student has to demonstrate sufficient knowledge of all the course subjects: introduction to the discipline and its methodologies; ability to read and judge a critical edition; general knowledge of the authors and works explored in the course; translation and philological commentary of a text read in the course. Clearness of exposition will also be evalued, as well as the use of the specialized lexicon. If students have participated in the course with a report, they have to put it in writing taking into account the observations that emerged from the collective discussion, and the report will be evaluated together with the oral interview.
Course program
Antonio Panormita’s Epistolarum familiarium liber. For a critical edition
Antonio Panormita is a humanist especially known for his scandalous Hermaphroditus, which marks the beginning of the humanistic renewal of the epigrammatic genre. But Panormita is also the author of historical works, numerous epistolaries and the particular prosimetrum Poematum et prosarum libri. Among the collections of letters, the most conspicuous and interesting is that of "Epistolae familiares", still unpublished. There is an autograph of the work, the ms. Vat. Lat. 3371, a working draft of the author; there are also other manuscripts; an incunabulum that derives from the autograph MS.; a 'censored' sixteenth century edition. The examination of the documented composition phases of the work will put students in contact with the concrete development of the literary 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.
This part of the course will be preceded by a few introductory lectures on the principles of philology, of humanistic philology in particular, on the author and his works and on the editions of these works.