ITALIAN PHILOLOGY

Academic year
2020/2021 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
FILOLOGIA ITALIANA SP.
Course code
FM0086 (AF:334430 AR:175408)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
L-FIL-LET/13
Period
2nd Semester
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The course is included in the core educational activities of the Master's Degree Programme in Philology and Italian Literature.
It aims to provide the students with the aware use of the philological method and the ability to elaborate critically the bibliography on a specific theme or discussion.
By the end of the course the student will be able to:
- read critically a Medieval Italian text, noticing linguistic, metrical and stylistic peculiarities;
- take advantage of the philological method in order to orient himself to a rich manuscript tradition;
- read consciously a critical edition, judging editor's chioses and discussing the alterative solutions suggested by the critics;
- work indipendently on seminar themes.
To have achieved the educational objectives of Principles of Philology. Foreigners attending this course are expected to be fluent in Italian and to have a good knowledge of the Italian literature (in particular Medieval period).
The Comic-Realistic Poetry: philological issues and observations on the texts.

The course offers the analysis of the so-called "comic-realistic poetry". During the lessons many texts of the leading poets of this genre (such as Rustico Filippi and Cecco Angiolieri) will be read, facing al the philological and hermeneutic problems.
Students will be invited to take part in a seminar activity on the text of some poems.
- Poesia comica del Medioevo italiano, a cura di M. Berisso, Milano, Rizzoli, 2011.
- Bibliographical material available on the e-learning platform moodle.unive.it.
Oral exam. The examination will verify the knowledge of the theoretical problems discussed in class and of the bibliography. The student will also be asked to read and explain a passage of the texts.
Frontal lessons and seminars. Further materials will be available on the e-learning platform moodle.unive.it.
Italian
Not-attending students are invited to contact the lecturer for any doubt or question.
oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

Goal 3: good health and well-being
Goal 4: quality education
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 07/01/2021