ITALIAN PHILOLOGY

Academic year
2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
FILOLOGIA ITALIANA SP.
Course code
FM0086 (AF:378625 AR:201302)
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
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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 and Renaissance 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 and Renaissance period).
16th-century Venetian poetry: Domenico and Maffio Venier

The course offers reading and commentary of some outstanding texts of 16th-century Venetian poetry. In particular, during the lessons lyrics of Domenico Venier, Benetto Corner and Maffio Venier will be analyzed.
Students will be invited to take part in a seminar activity in collaboration with the Vocabolario storico-etimologico del veneziano.
- T. Agostini Nordio, Poesie dialettali di Domenico Venier, in "Quaderni veneti", 14 (1991), pp. 33-56;
- T. Agostini, Benetto Corner poeta dialettale e bulesco, in Tra commediografi e letterati. Rinascimento e Settecento veneziano, a c. di T. Agostini e E. Lippi, Ravenna, Longo, 1997, pp. 151-170;
- G. Belloni, Maffio Venier e la poesia dialettale veneziana, in Dizionario critico della letteratura italiana, IV, Torino, Utet, 1986, , pp. 389-393;
- M. Ferrari, Italiano letterario e veneziano nelle rime di Maffio Venier, in In fieri. Ricerche di linguistica italiana, a cura di S. Lubello, Firenze, Cesati, 2017, pp. 27-39.

Further bibliography will be available on the e-learning platform moodle.unive.it.
Not attending students must read also L. Tomasin, Storia linguistica di Venezia, Roma, Carocci, pp. 7-90 and the entries "Venier, Domenico" and "Venier, Maffio" in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. 98, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 548-551 e 568-569 (available also online).
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.
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Last update of the programme: 02/02/2023