ITALIAN PHILOLOGY

The course is included in the interdisciplinary activities of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Humanities and aims to strengthen the skills of philological analysis.

By the end of the cours students are expected to be able to:
- analyze and develop the bibliography on the subject;
- read consciously a critical edition, formulating judgements on editor's choises;
- know the basic philological problems of some fundamental works of the Italian literature;
- reinforce the awareness of the plurality of the methodological approaches to the text (with particular attention to the philological methodes).

The attendance of the Principles of Philology course is highly recommended. Foreigners attending this course are expected to be fluent in Italian and to have a general knowledge of the Italian literature.

The course aims to examine in depth the basis of the philological and critical analysis on the text, with particular regard to some case-studies.
The following works will be analyzed and discussed: 1) Boccaccio, Decameron; 2) Dante, Commedia; 3) Manzoni, Promessi sposi. For each work a general introduction on the philological problems will be given and some passages of the texts will be read and analyzed from a philological point of view.

- A manual of Italian philology (the following are reccomended: P. Stoppelli, Filologia della letteratura italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2008; B. Bentivogli, P. Vecchi Galli, Filologia italiana, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2002; A. Stussi, Introduzione agli studi di filologia italiana, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015).
- S. Bellomo, Filologia e critica dantesca. Nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata, Brescia, La scuola, 2012 (only chapter 13).
- M. Fiorilla, Sul testo del "Decameron". Per una nuova edizione critica, in Boccaccio letterato. Atti del Convegno internazionale Firenze-Certaldo, 10-12 ottobre 2013, a cura di M. Marchiaro e S. Zamponi, Firenze, Accademia della Crusca – Ente nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio, 2015, pp. 211-237.
G. Raboni, Come lavorava Manzoni, Roma, Carocci, 2017, pp. 71-127.
- Bibliographical material available on the e-learning platform moodle.unive.it.

Optional texts:
- M. Grimaldi, Filologia dantesca. Un'introduzione, Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 43-55 e 61-69;
- F. Bausi, Leggere il "Decameron", Bologna, il Mulino, 2017, pp. 9-36 and 111-130.

Written test. The examination will verify the knowledge of the theoretical problems and of the practical examples discussed in class.

written

Assessment criteria:
A. To achieve a grade between 18 and 22, students must demonstrate:
- acceptable but cursory knowledge of the programme;
- limited text analysis and argumentation skills in open-ended questions;
- an expression that is not always appropriate;
B. To achieve a grade between 23 and 26, students must demonstrate:
- decent knowledge of the programme;
- decent text analysis and argumentation skills in open-ended questions;
- correct use of the language, even if with some imprecisions in the use of the technical language of the discipline;
C. To achieve a grade between 27 and 30 cum laude, students must demonstrate:
- good or excellent knowledge of the programme;
- good or excellent analysis and argumentation skills in open-ended questions;
- perfect use of the language.

Frontal lessons; all the texts discussed in class will be available on the e-learning platform moodle.unive.it.

For any needs students are invited to contact the lecturer.

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