Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

The course aims at providing the outlines of the history of philology, textual criticism and medieval Latin manuscript tradition, with special reference to the texts of Schools and Universities.

1) Introduction to Latin in the Middle Ages; 2) The means for the knowledge of the medieval Latin texts; 3) Levels of writing and analysis of the genera; 4) Doctrines, narrations and testimonies; 5) Systems of recognition of the oral tradition; 6) Problems of textual interpretation and formation of the manuscript tradition.

At the end of this course the students will have acquired:
1) the historical knowledge of some important areas of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Italian poetry;
2) ability to textual analysis, in relation to the critical and theoretical debate related to literary genres;
3) ability to interrogate the contemporary classics in relation to research sources (literary archives and libraries of the author).

To acquire basic critical tools to analyze Italian literary texts and the history of those texts; to acquire the knowledge of mayor methodological approaches.

The examination (with practical exercises) of the different types of archives has the objective to compare archival practice and sedimentation, in a process that, starting from the theoretical statements, you get a review of the relationship between the activity of the producer and training, management and protection of the archive.

The course aims to present the issues related to book production and sales, publishing industry, reading statistics, consequences of the digital revolution, and to provide students with the tools to know and understand the changes taking place in this context.

The course aims at giving students the ability of understanding, analyzing and managing active and semi-active records with specific reference to the principles and methods for electronic records management and to the changes of business processes when applied to the records creation and keeping in the dynamic digital environments; it also aims at giving basic knowledge for the design of standardized electronic record management systems and for preserving digital archives.

The course aims to present the main topics of Information Science, relating to the organization, interpretation and dissemination of recorded knowledge, in order to allow its use. The different approaches
to the organization of knowledge, the advanced strategies for indexing and the bibliometric measures, are also presented. The up-to-date tools for the organization of knowledge in the Web, supporting the
Semantic Web development, such as the data model RDF and ontologies are analyzed. The theoretical and critical examination of the proposed topic is emphasized.

The course aims to provide an overview on the main legislation in the field of libraries and archives, with respect, in addition to State regulations, to the regional legislation and tothe main provisions of EU and international.

The course aims to provide an updated overview on the role of law in society and on the main currents of legal thought from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.

To acquire an advanced knowledge of the history of public administration, especially in relation to bibliographic and archival sources.

The course offers in-depth study of issues related to history of political institutions in modern and contemporary world, especially in relation to bibliographical and archival sources.

The course aims at providing the students with an overview of the history of European illumination, with a specific focus on Italy and on the importance of the link between text and illustration.

Introduction to the general history of libraries and methodological problems. Analysis of special problems and topics of contemporary library history with reference to primary sources (public and private sources, textual and non-textual sources).

The course examines the general concept of archives in different centuries and presents the current structure of national and international archival systems. It will also offer a critical overview of concepts that are fundamental in the history of the discipline, from the first stages of the life of archives, to the evolving technologies now supporting the discipline.

The course will provide a long-term vision of European history in its passage from the modern to contemporary. Particular attention will be placed on some issues (reform idea of ​​the nation, empires and states) and comparison with what is happening in Eastern Europe. The division between east / west, in fact, can help to paint an interesting unified framework within which each country and each area, while following the path of the entire continent, expresses its own particular identity. It is thought in this way to provide fundamental knowledge to pursue and deepen the historical studies and other disciplines.

Introduction to contemporary cataloguing theory and presentation of the new Italian cataloguing code (REICAT), including problems of practical application in online systems. In the last part of the course, elements of indexing theory and introduction to the most-used subject indexing and classification systems.

The course aims to provide the tools the necessary tools to bring a critical interpretation of diplomatic documents of ancient and medieval ages, analyzing their role and function in relation to the political and institutional history and the history of law.

To provide an adequate knowledge of the history of Parliaments in Europe and in the contemporary age, in particular, of the Italian experience, through parliamentary sources, preserved in the archives of the Camera dei deputati and the Senato della Repubblica.

The course aims to provide the tools to understand the history of justice in Italy, through the study of judicial institutions (courts, tribunals, the Consiglio di Stato) and administrative bodies (Ministry of Justice), with a special focus on archival sources preserved in Archivio centrale dello Stato.

The course aims to illustrate the production and structure of the printed book, its evolution from the origins to the twentieth century andits description according to analytical bibliography.

The course aims to provide students with the essential lines of discipline and with the basic tools for the study of a manuscript as a material object.

By using palaeographical method, the course will enable students to read, date and locate Greek manuscripts.

Information Retrieval; Data bases; Cultural History of ITC; Digital Humanities.

The course provides an overview of methods and techniques for analyzing and evaluating library services.
The topics and the case studies want to stimulate awareness of the decisive role of systematic data collection for library management and programming cultural policies.