Modern humanities

Students will learn the history of the discipline, from antiquity to the modern era, and the methodology of modern critical editions. They will be able to understand the ways of transmission and reception of Greek-Latin literary works through the centuries, and to evaluate independently the modification these works have been subjected to in the different stages of tradition. They will be able to make judgements on texts, and contextualize their literary genre and the ways of fruition, communicating these ideas with the appropriate terminology even to a general audience. They will be able to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy. The second part of the course includes a laboratory-type activity: under the teacher's guidance, the students will read a text directly from the manuscript witnesses, applying the theoretical knowledge examined in the first part of the course, and arriving at the proposal of a critical edition specimen .