Modern humanities

The student has to know the fundamental principles of textual criticism and how to use the most important literature; he/she has to be able to use the aforementioned knowledge to study texts of Italian literature written in Latin and Italian; he/she has to acquire skills and competences for reading a critical edition, especially as regards the methods used in the constitutio textus; he/she has to manage to communicate, also to non-scholarly audiences, what he has learnt, to illustrate the main philological problems of a text and the possible solutions; he/she has to prove that he will manage to deal adequately with more advanced studies in the field of textual philology.