COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR LATIN

This course is included within the main-courses of Classics and Italian Latin Philology and Literature. Its primary purpose is to make students aware of the digital tools used in the analysis of Latin texts: intertextuality – wittily defined by someone "the holy grail of Classical studies" – can be considered as the presence of a text within another text (or many other texts) by the same author or by some others; a presence detected by the reader. In the last 3-4 decades, the philological research, which has been based for a long time only on paper-tools, such as printed concordances, can benefit from digital tool, both offline and online. Advantages are available for scholars and students, at any level.

Students will be made aware of all the main and most updated digital tools available for the study of Latin literature, including online/web sources and CD-ROM.
At the end of the course students will have acquired a thorough knowledge of critical problems connected with digital philology; the course will provide analytic researches on specific texts and on wide corpora, so participants will improve their autonomy in making their own researches using digital tools, which are replacing paper-printed concordances and indexes mostly used in the past.

This course consists of close reading and analysis of Latin literary texts, both prose and poetry: at least an intermediate knowledge of Latin is then requested. All students who want to take this exam must take before the Latin Lab 2 Language test (info: http://www.unive.it/data/insegnamento/263176 ).

Close reading of poetic texts, mostly from the Roman poets of the Augustan age. Practical exercises and personal activity by students connected with the use of digital tools and online bibliographies.

1) Linda Spinazzè, Filologia digitale. Dalla ricerca alla didattica, Trento, Tangram, 2015; F. Stella, Testi letterari e analisi digitale, Roma, Carocci, 2018; G. Milanese, Filologia, letteratura, computer. Idee e strumenti per l'informatica umanistica, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2020.
2) Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius (1-12), any good edition.

Oral examination. Students will be requested to demonstrate their autonomy in searching Latin texts using digital tools.

Traditional lectures, seminars and tests.

Italian

written and oral