Modern Philology

Activity type

Discipline linguistiche, filologiche e metodologiche

SSD

L-FIL-LET/09

Year

1st year

Semester

2nd semester

CFU

6

Hours distribution

42 classroom hours

Lecturers

STEFANO PIETRO LUIGI ASPERTI

The course is aimed at students of master's degrees who already possess basic knowledge of Romance philology and linguistic and intends to present a case-study (an author, a text or a group of texts, a genre, a problem, a theme, ...) of exemplary importance, placing it into the appropriate historical-literary context, highlighting the most relevant philological problems, inserting it in current discussion on the subject.
Specific objectives that are meant to be reached are the acquisition of in-depth expertise and critically evaluated skills around key problems of romance philology; acquisition of a secure methodology of work (critical analysis of the current literature, the ability to work directly out of ancient texts), in relation to the most recent research directions; ability to confront with the current critical literature. Students will develop more advanced critical skills in the analysis of texts through their formal characters and the comparison between related objects, refining the ability of contrastive analysis concerning texts, forms, genres, thematic clusters.

The course is aimed at students of master's degrees who already possess basic knowledge of Romance philology and linguistic and intends to present a case-study (an author, a text, a genre ...) of exemplary importance, placing it into the appropriate historical-literary context, highlighting the most relevant philological problems, inserting it in current discussion on the subject.
Specific objectives that are meant to be reached are the acquisition of in-depth expertise and critically evaluated skills around key problems of romance philology; acquisition of a secure methodology of work (critical analysis of the current literature, the ability to work directly out of ancient texts), in relation to the most recent research directions; ability to confront with the current critical literature. Students will develop more advanced critical skills in the analysis of texts through their formal characters and the comparison between related objects, refining the ability of contrastive analysis concerning texts, forms, genres, thematic clusters.

Basic knowledge of linguistics and literary history about medieval romance literatures and of the main problems of methods posed by the field of study. Knowledge of the tools of linguistic, literary and philological analysis and at least minimal skills for autonomous intervention on medieval texts of various kinds and traditions. Instrumental knowledge of the main vehicular languages for the use of scientific bibliography.

The position of 'obscure', hermetic and conceptual composition within the tradition of the Provençal troubadours. 1) From the origins up to the mid-12th century; 2) Troubadours of the early and late 12th century

1) TESTI : F. Zambon, Il fiore inverso. I poeti del trobar clus, Milano, Luni, 2022; anthology of ancient poetic texts edited by the lecturer, available online

2) LITERARY HISTORY: L. Lazzerini, Letteratura medievale in lingua d’oc, Modena, Mucchi or C. Di Girolamo, I trovatori, Bollati-Boringhieri or M. de Riquer, Leggere i trovatori, eum;

3) CRITICISM: anthology of critical texts edited by the lecturer, available online

4) LINGUA : an Old Occitan grammar, at choice, as a reference tool: for instance, Roncaglia, La lingua dei trovatori oppure Crescini, Manuale di avviamento (available on the web in digital format).



STUDENTI NON FREQUENTANTI - A SCELTA UNO DEI TRE PROGRAMMI DA 12 CFU SOTTO ELENCATI (PER CIASCUNO ANCHE LA VARIANTE DA 6 CFU)


Programma 1 - Trovatori e Dante - 12 CFU
I trovatori di Dante / traduzione di Francesco Zambon ; con un saggio di Claudia Di Fonzo. - Venezia : Molesini, 2024. - 116 p. ; 16 cm.
si richieda la lettura anche in originale di tutti i testi lirici, con l’ausilio di una qualsiasi grammatica del provenzale antico (Crescini, Pellegrini, Roncaglia), con commento puntuale metrico e letterario di almeno 4 dei componimenti, e con l’approfondimento per 2 di essi della tradizione manoscritta sulla base dell’ed. di riferimento utilizzata nell’ed. di Zambon.

Bibliografia critica
T. BAROLINI, Dante’s Poets. Textuality and Truth in the "Comedy", Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press, 1984, trad. it. Il Miglior fabbro. Dante e i poeti della Commedia, Torino, Bollati-Boringhieri, 1993
G. CONTINI, Dante come personaggio-poeta della “Commedia”, ora in G.C., Un’idea di Dante, Torino, Einaudi, 1976: 33-62.
M. TAVONI, Il nome di poeta in Dante, in Studi offerti a Luigi Blasucci dai colleghi e dagli allievi pisani, Pisa, Maria Pacini Fazzi Ed., 1996: 545-577.
M. BRACCINI, Paralipomeni al "personaggio-poeta" (Purgatorio XXVI 140-7), in Testi e interpretazioni. Studi del Seminario di Filologia romanza dell’Università di Firenze, Milano-Napoli, Ricciardi, 1978: 169-256.
S. Asperti, Dante, i trovatori, la poesia, in Le culture di Dante – Studi in onore di Robert Hollander, Atti del quarto Seminario dantesco internazionale – Univ. Of Notre Dame (Ind.), USA, 25-27 settembre 2003 (a c. di Michelangelo Picone, Theodore J. Cachey Jr e Margherita Mesirca), Firenze, Franco Cesati, 2004, pp. 61-92



(per 6 CFU togliere i saggi di Tavoni, Braccini, Asperti e dimezzare le analisi dei testi trobadorici) 
Programma 2 - Chrétien de Troyes
a) testi
Il cavaliere del leone / Chrétien de Troyes ; a cura di Francesca Gambino ; con un'introduzione di Lucilla Spetia. - Alessandria : Edizioni dell'Orso, 2011.
Il cavaliere della carretta (Lancillotto) / Chrétien de Troyes, Godefroi de Leigni ; a cura di Pietro G. Beltrami. - Alessandria : Edizioni dell'Orso, 2004.
lettura integrale di entrambi i romanzi, con preparazione di almeno 400 versi dell’uno e 400 dell’altro in originale, con l’ausilio di una qualsiasi grammatica del francese antico

b) bibliografia critica
La letteratura francese medievale a cura di Mario Mancini. - Roma : Carocci, 2014 - solo il capitolo sul Romanzo
The romances of Chrétien de Troyes / Joseph J. Duggan, New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2001 (in Biblioteca Alessandrina) a scelta due tra i capp. 3 Values, 4 Interiority and Responsibility 6 The Art of the Storyteller
Il meraviglioso nella letteratura francese del Medioevo / Daniel Poirion ; Torino : G. Einaudi, 1988

(per 6 CFU togliere uno dei due romanzi e scegliere un solo cap. del volume di Duggan) 
Programma 3 - Trovatori e critica del testo - 12 cfu

a) P.G. Beltrami, Che cos’è un’edizione critica, il Mulino 2010; G. Contini, Filologia (a c. di L. Leonardi), il Mulino 2014; Avalle-Leonardi, I manoscritti della letteratura in lingua d’oc, Einaudi, 1993, capp. 2 e 3.

b) P.G. Beltrami, "Er auziretz" di Giraut de Borneil e "Abans qe.il blanc puoi" di autore incerto: note sulla rima dei trovatori, Cultura Neolatina, 52 (1992): 85-112; P. Squillacioti, BdT 276,1 "Longa sazon ai estat vas Amor", Rivista di studi testuali, 2 (2000), 185-215; F. Zufferey, Nouvelle approche de l'amour de loin, Cultura Neolatina, 69 (2009) 1-2: 7-58; S. Resconi, La canzone di Jordan Bonel "S'ira d'amor tengues amic jauzen" (BdT 273,1) e alcuni problemi nell'edizione critica dei testi trobadorici, in Perspectives médiévales, 34 (2012) [in linea : https://journals.openedition.org/peme/1434]

c) C. Di Girolamo, I Trovatori, Torino, Bollati-Boringhieri, 1989 (con lettura in originale e commento letterario approfondito di 6 testi tra quelli presentati da Di Girolamo) oppure S. Gaunt - S. Kay, The Troubadours: An Introduction, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1999 (capitoli 1, 2, 4 o 5 a scelta, 8, 11, 13, 14, con commento ai testi citati).

d) una grammatica del provenzale antico come strumento di consultazione : Roncaglia, La lingua dei trovatori oppure Crescini, Manuale di avviamento (in rete in copia digitale)
(per 6 CFU: togliere Contini, Filologia, Avalle-Leonardi, e i saggi di Squillacioti e di Zufferey)

Module: Methods and problems of Romance philology I
N/D

The course is directed to graduate students of master's degree courses who already possess basic notions of Romance philology; it is essential to attend classes regularly, with active participation in the development of the course, which will last one year (it is otherwise preferable to refer to the program for non-attending students or to contact the teacher for an alternative). Reading the mss. requires the knowledge of elementary principles of paleography or the willingness to acquire them.

The course will be seminar-based and as a whole (12 CFU) will last the whole year. The first semester will be devoted to ancient troubadours and textes, the second to authors of the second half of the 12th Century. The active participation of students will be encouraged. Attendance is therefore strictly compulsory; those who are unable to attend but are nevertheless interested in the contents or intend to sit the exam in any case are invited to contact Prof. Asperti for indications or for an alternative program.

Oral Exam: A linguistic, philological, and literary commentary on some of the texts taken during the course. During the year students will be required to prepare an oral public delivery on an assigned theme. In particular, it will be evaluated the student's ability to take into account the texts and themes examined (for literary and historical-literary, philological and linguistic aspects), and to place them in a correct perspective also in relation to current trends in criticism and in literary historiography.

linguistic / philological / literary-historical analysis and cultural-historical commentary of a text / portion of text / group of texts

Module: Methods and problems of Romance philology I
N/D