9795414 - STORIA E TRADIZIONE DEI CLASSICI ITALIANI
Expected Learning Outcomes
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 14th
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 19th and 20th century Italian
poetry.
Ability to apply the critical and
lexicographic methodologies to the reading and interpretation of the genesis of
literary works.
Course Structure
Lectures.Required Prerequisites
Knowledge of the main authors and texts of medieval and humanistic-Renaissance Italian literature. Knowledge of the main outlines of the history of Italian literary language and the basic elements of text linguistics.Attendance of Lessons
Optional attendance.Detailed Course Content
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 20th century Italian poetry: Giuseppe Ungaretti’s La Terra Promessa. (2 ECTS)
D Literary lexicography, concordances and data bases. Applications to 20th century Italian poetry. (1 ECTS)
Textbook Information
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;
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
| 1 | Elements of history of Italian Philology | Bentivogli - Vecchi Galli; Barbi (module A) |
| 2 | Elements of ecdotics of Italian texts | Brambilla Ageno; Stoppelli (module A) |
| 3 | History and formation of Petrarch's Canzoniere | Savoca, "Il Canzoniere di Petrarca tra codicologia ed ecdotica" (module B) |
| 4 | Lecture and analysis of RVF's 336-366 | F. Petrarca, "Canzoniere" (ed. a scelta); F. Petrarca, "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta". Ed. critica di G. Savoca (module B) |
| 5 | Introduction to Ungaretti's poetry | Piccioni; Petrucciani (module C) |
| 6 | Philologycal analysis of "La Terra Promessa" | Ungaretti, "Vita d'un uomo" (module C) |
| 7 | UIngaretti and the self-comment | Brose; Papini (module C) |
| 8 | Concordance and vocabularies | Savoca, "Lessicografia..." e "Parole di Ungaretti e di Montale" (module D) |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
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.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
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.
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