20702450 - LATIN PHILOLOGY L.M.

The student will acquire advanced knowledge through: 1) the philological commentary of selected passages; 2) the analysis of the same steps following different paths - linguistic, historical-literary, anthropological -from time to time on the 'permanence' of gender in specific areas of our culture (students will be active in this part of the course, which is configured as a research laboratory); 3) the commentary on passages by great authors of Latin literature in the light of the critical-exegetical writings of eminent contemporary philologists.

Curriculum

teacher profile | teaching materials

Mutuazione: 20702450 FILOLOGIA LATINA L.M. in Filologia, letterature e storia dell'antichità LM-15 N0 DE NONNO MARIO

Programme

Outlines of the manuscript transmission and principles of textual criticism of Latin literary texts.

Horace’s Epodes. In this course a literary setting of the liber Epodum by Horace will be offered, toghether with a philological reading of the latin text, an italian interpretation and a commentary, with particular care to the aspects of poetical form (models, metrics, style).

Core Documentation

- P. Chiesa, La trasmissione dei testi latini. Storia e metodo critico, Roma (Carocci);
- M. De Nonno, Transmission and Textual Criticism, in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies, edd. A. Barchiesi & W. Scheidel, Oxford University Press, pp. 31-48 [photocopies of this work will be made available on line ]
- P. Maas, La critica del testo. Traduzione a cura di G. Ziffer, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura).

- Orazio, Il libro degli Epodi, a cura di A. Cavarzere, Venezia (ed. Marsilio).
- E. Fraenkel, Horace, Clarendon Press: Chapters I (‘Vita Horati’) e II (‘The Epodes’).


Type of delivery of the course

The course (36 hours - 6 CFU) will be imparted in the second semester; it will be comprehensive of a training in Horace's metres.

Attendance

Attendance highly recommended.

Type of evaluation

Oral exam (queries about the outlines of the manuscript transmission and principles of textual criticism of Latin literary texts. Reading in latin, translation and interpretation of Horace's Epodes; textual criticism of the Epodes).

teacher profile | teaching materials

Mutuazione: 20702450 FILOLOGIA LATINA L.M. in Filologia, letterature e storia dell'antichità LM-15 N0 DE NONNO MARIO

Programme

Outlines of the manuscript transmission and principles of textual criticism of Latin literary texts.

Horace’s Epodes. In this course a literary setting of the liber Epodum by Horace will be offered, toghether with a philological reading of the latin text, an italian interpretation and a commentary, with particular care to the aspects of poetical form (models, metrics, style).

Core Documentation

- P. Chiesa, La trasmissione dei testi latini. Storia e metodo critico, Roma (Carocci);
- M. De Nonno, Transmission and Textual Criticism, in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies, edd. A. Barchiesi & W. Scheidel, Oxford University Press, pp. 31-48 [photocopies of this work will be made available on line ]
- P. Maas, La critica del testo. Traduzione a cura di G. Ziffer, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura).

- Orazio, Il libro degli Epodi, a cura di A. Cavarzere, Venezia (ed. Marsilio).
- E. Fraenkel, Horace, Clarendon Press: Chapters I (‘Vita Horati’) e II (‘The Epodes’).


Type of delivery of the course

The course (36 hours - 6 CFU) will be imparted in the second semester; it will be comprehensive of a training in Horace's metres.

Attendance

Attendance highly recommended.

Type of evaluation

Oral exam (queries about the outlines of the manuscript transmission and principles of textual criticism of Latin literary texts. Reading in latin, translation and interpretation of Horace's Epodes; textual criticism of the Epodes).