METHODS AND PRACTICES OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM

The course aims to make students understand the problems of transmitting a text over the centuries and the importance of the critical edition of the text.

1. To know and understand the issues related to the transmission of literary texts in the medieval and modern Romance-speaking territories; to know and understand both the philological procedures and the theorizations about how to make a critical edition.
2. To be able to identify the issues related to the transmission of texts and the philolgical procedures that are needed to restore the text in the closest form as possible to the original; to acquire awareness of the linguistic, stylistic, historical and cultural, palaeographic and codicological knowledge that is required to make a critical edition.
3. To be able to identify - by comparing manuscript witnesses, or print witnesses, with modern editions of the text - the procedure followed by editors as well as to judge, by way of the analysis of the critical discussion, the different degrees of appropriateness of the choices the editors made to restore the text.
4. To be able to talk in a clear and technically adequate way about the contents of the course, using a style that suits the communicative context.
5. Learning Capabilities. To be able to propose the course contents in an organic way and to critically consult the reference texts.

No prerequisites are required

Introduction to text criticism with practical examples of editions of Romance texts both in single and multiple tradition.

F. Ageno Brambilla, L'edizione critica dei testi volgari, Padova Antenore 1984.
P. G. Beltrami, A che serve un'edizione critica. Leggere i testi della letteratura romanza medievale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010.

The examination program for students who cannot attend the course is provided below in the More Information section.

Students will be asked questions about the program and the materials analysed during the lessons

Frontal classroom lesson: students will be provided with the texts being analysed in each lesson

Italian

Students not attending must bring the following texts:
A. Stussi, Breve avviamento alla filologia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002
V. Formentin, Poesia italiana delle origini, Roma, Carocci, 2007, pp. 15-37
A. Parenti, Recupero di una voce spezzata. Sul testo di Decameron II,9,42, in "Studi di Filologia Italiana", LXXIV (2016), pp. 33-46.

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