THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING

Course objectives

1. The student has to demonstrate that he has acquired knowledge and ability to understand that reinforce those acquired during the first cycle of the training course and that allow to elaborate original ideas in the field of text criticism. 2. The student has to show to be able to solve new problems in the field of textual criticism with reference to interdisciplinary contexts. 3. The student must be able to integrate the acquired knowledge and manage the complexity of the scientific problems related to the method of restitution of the text, to know how to formulate independent judgments with attention to the social issues related to the critical edition of a text. 4. The student has to know how to communicate the acquired information and explain the procedures that have enabled their acquisition so that they can be understood in the specialist and non-specialist fields. 5. The student must prove that he knows how to study independently in the field of philology and textual criticism of Italian literature.

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Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
The course held in the first semester (6 credits) will focus on reading, translating and commenting on Giovanni Boccaccio's biography of Petrarch, which he composed shortly after Petrarch's poetic coronation and which was left incomplete and had very little circulation in manuscript form. It will be divided into two parts as follows: 1) the work covered by the course will be placed within the context of literary production, in particular that of the biographical genre, and of the Certaldese library (approximately 12 hours); 2) the philological and interpretative problems posed by the text as it has come down to us will be addressed, a translation with commentary will be made, and the modern editorial fortune of the work will be retraced. Students will be required to participate actively and will also be asked to practise reading and collating the witnesses that have handed down De vita et moribus Francisci Petracchi during the lessons (approximately 30 hours).
Books
- Giovanni Boccaccio, Vita di Petrarca, a cura di G. Villani, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2004, pp. 1-104, 191-92. - *A. Malanca, La ‘vita del Petrarca’ di Pietro da Castelletto, «Studi petrarcheschi», 22 (2009), pp. 57-80. - *A. Bellieni, Le vite di Petrarca, di san Pier Damiani e di Livio, in Boccaccio autore e copista, a cura di T. De Robertis et al., Firenze, Mandragora, 2013, pp. 215-17. - *Le antiche biografie di Petrarca, Atti del Convegno internazionale “Petrarca e la sua ricezione europea”, Freie Universität Berlin, 9-10 novembre 2017, a cura di G. Cascio e B. Huß, Messina, CISU, 2020, pp. 25-47.
Lesson mode
The course will consist of 42 hours of classroom teaching, divided into two days of lessons per week, each lasting 2 hours, according to the academic calendar. Classroom teaching will include theoretical lessons on the subject of the course, with the aid of slides to assist students, who will be assessed on their learning.
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseModern Philology
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year1st year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDL-FIL-LET/13
  • CFU6