501128 - ITALIAN PHILOLOGY - ADVANCED

courses

ID:

501128

Duration (hours):

72

CFU:

SSD:

FILOLOGIA DELLA LETTERATURA ITALIANA

Year:

2025

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (23/02/2026 - 22/05/2026)

Course Objectives

This course provides the students with the knowledge of the main instruments and methods of study related to the discipline, as well as to present by means of specific examples the different types of editions, also in function of commentary. At the end of the course, we expect the student to be able to recognize and provide an autonomous evaluation of a critical and/or commented edition; furthermore, the student must be capable of understanding some fundamental principles of the relationship between philology and textual criticism.

Course Prerequisites

Acquisition, during the three-year degree course, of 18 credits (CFU) in Italian Literature; Knowledge of the fundamental notions about the methodologies of philological work and the main lines of the history of Italian literature.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, also using handouts that the students will be provided with during the course and whose knowledge will be part of the final examination, along with the textbooks. In order to achieve the indicated training objectives, after some lessons dedicated to the history and fundamentals of authorial philology, and genetic criticism, case studies, single editions and examples of the relationship between philological investigation or reconstruction and interpretation will be presented and discussed.

Assessment Methods

The exam will be carried out orally and is organized in two moments that are closely linked to each other: a moment relating to the verification of basic skills acquired on the works examined and their literary historical context, discussing the individual cases tackled, and a moment relating more specifically to Vittorio Alfieri’s writing laboratory and the verification of the acquisition of the specific skills required by the study of the writer's archives and libraries.

Texts

For the general section: In addition to the textbooks by A. Stussi, Introduzione agli studi di filologia italiana, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015, Chapter 5 only (pages 147-250), and by P. Italia, G. Raboni, Che cos’è la filologia d’autore, Roma, Carocci, 2010, knowledge of which is taken for granted with the examination of Italian Philology (6 ECTS) of the Bachelor of Arts degree course, one must know: F. Bausi, La Filologia Italiana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2023, Chapters 6-8 only (pages 191-292); C. Del Vento-Pierre Musitelli (ed. by), Gli “scartafacci” degli scrittori. Sentieri della creazione letteraria in Italia (secc. XIV-XIX), Roma, Carocci, 2022, limited to the introduction, chapters 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 (pages 11-86 and 207-336). G. Contini, Come lavorava l'Ariosto, in Esercizi di lettura, Torino, Einaudi, 1982, pp. 232-241; Id. Ricordo di Joseph Bédier, ivi, pp. 358-371; Id., Saggio dun commento alle correzioni del Petrarca volgare, in Id., Varianti e altra linguistica. Una raccolta di saggi 1938-1968, Torino, Einaudi, 1979, pp. 5-32. G. Pasquali, Edizioni originali e varianti d’autore, in Id., Storia della tradizione e critica del testo, Milano, Mondadori, 1974, pp. 395-465; L. Caretti, Filologia e critica (1952), in Id., Antichi e moderni. Studi di letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi, 1976, pp. 471-488; D. Isella, Le varianti d'autore (critica e filologia), in Id., Le carte mescolate vecchie e nuove, a cura di S. Isella Brusamolino, Torino, Einaudi, 2009, pp. 7-29. Other bibliographical references will be provided during the course. When possible, some parts of the texts included in the bibliography will be made available of the platform Kiro.

The course will be divided into two parts. The first part of the course will include, also by means of a series of examples drawn from the literary tradition, a series of critical reflections on decisive questions authorial philology. The second part of the course will be devoted to the philology of texts with an open tradition and multiple redactions, examined through a series of case studies.

Course Language

Italian

More information

Also given the technical nature of the discipline, the students are warmly recommended to attend classes. Those of them who won't be able to do so are requested to talk as soon as possible to the teachers, in order to define a dedicated program.