ITALIAN PHILOLOGY AND ROMANZA
cod. 1004634

Academic year 2017/18
2° year of course - First semester
Professor responsible for the course unit
RINOLDI Paolo
integrated course unit
12 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Course unit structured in the following modules:

Learning objectives

By the end of the two parts, students will be able to:
- read a critical edition, analyse apparatuses and variants
-read the manuscripts (from medieval manuscripts to contemporary autographs) and the old printed edition
- evaluate the history of tradition of a literary work of any kind, linking it to other features of literary history.

Prerequisites

Students must have a good knowledge of Italian Literary history, history of Italian language.

Course unit content

The course aims to a philological approch to romance and italian literature through the sudy of the genesis and textual transmission of a work.
Analysis can change due to different kinds of literary works, but some fundamental principles are:
- study in textual transmission and history of tradition
- analysis of variants and author's variants
-ecdotic perspective
- seminar works on sources (manuscrit and printed)
- basics of digital philology

Full programme

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Bibliography

See the corresponding fields in each part.

Teaching methods

Front lesson and seminars. See corresconding section of each part

Assessment methods and criteria

The exam is written and oral. See each part for detailed information.
The final mark is the average of the two parts

Other information

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