ITALIAN PHILOLOGY

Academic year
2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
FILOLOGIA ITALIANA SP.
Course code
FM0086 (AF:480716 AR:254400)
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, Linguistics 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).
Dolce stil novo: tradition and texts

The course, after proposing a critical framing of the "Dolce stil novo" label, will offer the reading and commentary of some salient texts of that poetic experience. Main philological issues, related to the manuscript tradition of the proposed texts and authors, will also be discussed.
Students will be invited to take part in a seminar activity.
- D. Pirovano, Il Dolce stil novo, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2014;
- Poesie dello Stilnovo, a cura di M. Berisso, Milano, Rizzoli, 2006.

Further bibliography will be 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
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 30/03/2024