The student, through an in-depth examination of the tradition of one or more texts, will be able to acquire advanced tools aimed at the elaboration of the critical edition, from the stage of enumeration and analysis of preserved witnesses to the development of critical apparatus and commentary, both on the side of reconstructive philology and on that of author’s philology.
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This monographic course will focus on methodological considerations, cultural and intertextual implications, as well as editorial and practical issues relating to the critical edition of Boccaccio’s marginal notes on Josephus’s 'Antiquitates Iudaicae' in a rare 11th-century Beneventan-Cassinese manuscript, the ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 66.1.
-* M. FIORILLA, Il sistema di annotazione di Boccaccio: tipologie di glosse e questioni ecdotiche (con una proposta per il Decameron), in «Ecdotica», XXI, 2024, pp. 247-269;
-* A. PIACENTINI, Le annotazioni filologiche di Boccaccio: lo scioglimento e la funzione delle c’, in «Res Publica Litterarum. Studies in the classical tradition», XLVI, 2025, pp. 70-121.
The bibliographic entries distinguished here by asterisks will be provided to the students in photocopy inside the course lecture notes, together with the following materials: passages of Boccaccio's works, reproductions of manuscripts, pages of critical editions and other essays, catalogue items, additional notes elaborated by the lecturer.
Students unable to attend are required to contact the lecturer (e-mail: silvia.finazzi@uniroma3.it) to make adequate arrangements well ahead of their exam date.
Programme
Boccaccio reader of JosephusThis monographic course will focus on methodological considerations, cultural and intertextual implications, as well as editorial and practical issues relating to the critical edition of Boccaccio’s marginal notes on Josephus’s 'Antiquitates Iudaicae' in a rare 11th-century Beneventan-Cassinese manuscript, the ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 66.1.
Core Documentation
- S. FINAZZI, Boccaccio lettore di Giuseppe Flavio. Le postille alle Antiquitates Iudaicae nel ms. Firenze, BML, Plut. 66.1, Firenze, Olschki, 2025 («Giovanni Boccaccio. Testi e Studi», 5).-* M. FIORILLA, Il sistema di annotazione di Boccaccio: tipologie di glosse e questioni ecdotiche (con una proposta per il Decameron), in «Ecdotica», XXI, 2024, pp. 247-269;
-* A. PIACENTINI, Le annotazioni filologiche di Boccaccio: lo scioglimento e la funzione delle c’, in «Res Publica Litterarum. Studies in the classical tradition», XLVI, 2025, pp. 70-121.
The bibliographic entries distinguished here by asterisks will be provided to the students in photocopy inside the course lecture notes, together with the following materials: passages of Boccaccio's works, reproductions of manuscripts, pages of critical editions and other essays, catalogue items, additional notes elaborated by the lecturer.
Students unable to attend are required to contact the lecturer (e-mail: silvia.finazzi@uniroma3.it) to make adequate arrangements well ahead of their exam date.
Attendance
1st semester. Students are strongly advised to attend classes regularly. Students unable to attend are required to contact the lecturer to make adequate arrangements well ahead of their exam date.Type of evaluation
An oral exam at the end of the course. No interim assessments are envisaged. The exam will focus on the material referred to under ‘Bibliography’ and on the topics dealt with during the lessons.