The Course “Philology 1” falls within the domain of the Basic learning activities labelled “Philology, General and Applied Linguistics” of the Degree Course in Languages and Cultural-Linguistic Mediation, specifically the activities aiming at providing adequate tools for the analysis of texts in the light of their transmission and cultural context.
The course aims to provide a clear and adequately detailed picture of the Romance / Germanic cultural milieu from a philological, historical and literary perspective, as well as of the processes through which the forms, genres and conventions of the literary tradition developed, focusing on the specific linguistic and literary character of the individual cultural areas. The course aims furthermore to provide an understanding of the principles of textual criticism.
Expected Learning Outcomes: the student will acquire a clear and adequately detailed picture of the Romance / Germanic cultural milieu from a philological, historical and literary perspective, as well as of the processes through which the forms, genres and conventions of the the literary tradition developed, focusing on the specific linguistic and literary character of the individual cultural areas. S/he will become familiar and understand the principles of textual criticism underlying a critical edition.
The course aims to provide a clear and adequately detailed picture of the Romance / Germanic cultural milieu from a philological, historical and literary perspective, as well as of the processes through which the forms, genres and conventions of the literary tradition developed, focusing on the specific linguistic and literary character of the individual cultural areas. The course aims furthermore to provide an understanding of the principles of textual criticism.
Expected Learning Outcomes: the student will acquire a clear and adequately detailed picture of the Romance / Germanic cultural milieu from a philological, historical and literary perspective, as well as of the processes through which the forms, genres and conventions of the the literary tradition developed, focusing on the specific linguistic and literary character of the individual cultural areas. S/he will become familiar and understand the principles of textual criticism underlying a critical edition.
teacher profile teaching materials
• Piero G. Beltrami, La filologia romanza, Bologna, il Mulino, 2017;
• Di Girolamo, I trovatori, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1989 (Introduzione e capp. I, IV);
• M. L. Meneghetti, Le origini delle letterature medievali romanze, Roma, Laterza, 2019 (o edizioni precedenti).
Programme
Il modulo presenterà le tappe salienti nella formazione della civiltà romanza, a partire dall’evoluzione delle lingue romanze, con illustrazione delle prime testimonianze scritte (l’Appendix Probi, l’indovinello veronese, le glosse di Reichenau, i decreti del Concilio di Tours, i Giuramenti di Strasburgo, i Placiti campani ecc.). Saranno inoltre analizzati dal punto di vista linguistico e letterario alcuni dei testi più rappresentativi della tradizione epica, lirica e cortese-cavalleresca delle Origini, con particolare attenzione alla continuità culturale e storica fra tarda antichità e Medioevo.Core Documentation
• Au. Roncaglia, I primi passi del volgare, in Le origini della lingua e della letteratura italiana, Torino, UTET, 2006, pp. 157-214;• Piero G. Beltrami, La filologia romanza, Bologna, il Mulino, 2017;
• Di Girolamo, I trovatori, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1989 (Introduzione e capp. I, IV);
• M. L. Meneghetti, Le origini delle letterature medievali romanze, Roma, Laterza, 2019 (o edizioni precedenti).
Type of delivery of the course
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Colloquio orale in presenza. Si prevede la verifica delle nozioni acquisite, mirata ad accertare la conoscenza dei temi e degli autori proposti, nonché la capacità di storicizzarli, mediante anche dei pertinenti confronti fra documenti. Può prevedere l’analisi di singoli brani scelti fra quelli affrontati nel programma d’esame, oppure l’illustrazione di un tema generale, anche attraverso l’ausilio della bibliografia critica proposta.